Motivational Quotes

Ideas

Getting an idea should be like sitting down on a pin. It should make you jump up and do something.

- Simpson, E. L.

Best Quotes about Ideas

People find ideas a bore because they do not distinguish between live ones and stuffed ones on a shelf.

Pound, Ezra

It first appeared like a crazy idea. It turned out he had a great idea.

Munro, J. Richard

It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.

Anatole France

A man is not necessarily intelligent because he has plenty of ideas, any more than he is a good general because he has plenty of soldiers.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

An idea is a feat of association, and the height of it is a good metaphor.

Frost, Robert

It is a lesson which all history teaches wise men, to put trust in ideas, and not in circumstances.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

A pile of rocks ceases to be a rock when somebody contemplates it with the idea of a cathedral in mind.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

The ideas of a time are like the clothes of a season: they are as arbitrary, as much imposed by some superior will which is seldom explicit. They are utilitarian and political, the instruments of smooth-running government.

Lewis, Wyndham

A new idea is like a child. It's easier to conceive than to deliver.

Koysis, Ted

10.

The best way to have a good idea is to have a lot of ideas.

Pauling, Linus

11.

Do not follow the ideas of others, but learn to listen to the voice within yourself. Your body and mind will become clear and you will realize the unity of all things.

Dogen

12.

It's a pretty good idea to be of good cheer but not all the time. Just at the most unexpected times.

13.

To have a great idea, have a lot of them.

Edison, Thomas A.

14.

Ideas control the world.

Garfield, James A.

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The idea is in my head to put it down is nothing.

Avery, Milton

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There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time has come.

Hugo, Victor

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Don't worry about people stealing an idea. If it's original, you will have to ram it down their throats.

Howard Aiken

18.

Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.

John Steinbeck

19.

A new idea is first condemned as ridiculous and then dismissed as trivial, until finally, it becomes what everybody knows.

James, William

20.

When an idea reaches critical mass there is no stopping the shift its presence will induce.

Williamson, Marianne

21.

It's easy to come up with new ideas; the hard part is letting go of what worked for you two years ago, but will soon be out-of-date.

Oech, Roger Von

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It is ideas, not vested interests, which are dangerous for good or evil.

Keynes, John Maynard

23.

If you have the same ideas as everybody else but have them one week earlier than everyone else then you will be hailed as a visionary. But if you have them five years earlier you will be named a lunatic.

Jones, Barry

24.

The point, simply, is that we are doing more rediscovering these days than discovering coming anew upon truths that ignorant people refused to examine, over the centuries, because the wise people who held custody of the fundamental truths of nature were unpopular.

Williamson, John

25.

The best ideas are common property.

Seneca

26.

There are only two kinds of scholars; those who love ideas and those who hate them.

Emile Chartier

27.

Ideas won't work unless you do.

28.

One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.

Walter Bagehot

29.

There is no adequate defense, except stupidity, against the impact of a new idea.

Bridgman, P. W.

30.

We like to test things... no matter how good an idea sounds, test it first.

Block, Henry

31.

The way to combat noxious ideas is with other ideas. The way to combat falsehoods is with truth.

William O. Douglas

32.

Brain cells create ideas. Stress kills brain cells. Stress is not a good idea.

Saunders, Richard

33.

Getting an idea should be like sitting down on a pin. It should make you jump up and do something.

Simpson, E. L.

34.

Harold, like the rest of us, had many impressions which saved him the trouble of distinct ideas.

Eliot, George

35.

Take the obvious, add a cupful of brains, a generous pinch of imagination, a bucketful of courage and daring, stir well and bring to a boil.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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Think for thyself one good idea, but known to be thine own, is better than a thousand gleaned from fields by others sown.

Wilson, Alexander

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An idea is worth nothing if it has no champion.

38.

Great ideas originate in the muscles.

Edison, Thomas A.

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Not the one who has many ideas, but the one who has a single conviction may become a great person.

Cotvos

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The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it.

P. B. Medawar

41.

This is my answer to the gap between ideas and action - I will write it out.

Hortense Calisher

42.

To die for an idea; it is unquestionably noble. But how much nobler it would be if men died for ideas that were true!

H. L. Mencken

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Ideas... they have the power

Hill, Napoleon

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Greater than the tread of mighty armies is an idea whose time has come.

Hugo, Victor

45.

Ideas lose themselves as quickly as quail, and one must wing them the minute they rise out of the grass, or they are gone.

Kennedy, Thomas F.

46.

Labor gives birth to ideas.

Rohn, Jim

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A handsome parson is fit for nothing but ti put ideas into the young woman's heads.

Judith Brocklehurst

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If you are possessed by an idea, you find it expressed everywhere, you even smell it.

Mann, Thomas

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Sometimes the best, and only effective, way to kill an idea is to put it into practice.

Harris, Sidney J.

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The ideas dictate everything, you have to be true to that or you're dead.

Lynch, David

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