Motivational Quotes

Ideas

If you pray for only one thing, .let it be for an idea.

- Sutton, Percy

Best Quotes about Ideas

So many new ideas are at first strange and horrible, though ultimately valuable that a very heavy responsibility rests upon those who would prevent their dissemination.

J. B. S. Haldane

An idea is the only level which moves the world.

Corey, Arthur F.

Every revolutionary idea seems to evoke three stages of reaction. They may be summed up by the phrases: (1) It's completely impossible. (2) It's possible, but it's not worth doing. (3) I said it was a good idea all along.

Clarke, Arthur C.

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

Judith Brocklehurst

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

Bridgman, P. W.

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

Cotvos

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

Mann, Thomas

An idea is not responsible for the people who believe in it.

Marquis, Don

To love an idea is to love it a little more than one should.

Rostand, Jean

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

William O. Douglas

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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It is the nature of thought to find its way into action.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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Great ideas originate in the muscles.

Edison, Thomas A.

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Little words hurt big ideas.

Newton, Howard W.

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

Avery, Milton

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Get your ideas on paper and study them. Do not let them go to waste!

Brown, Les

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Ideas are powerful things, requiring not a studious contemplation but an action, even if it is only an inner action. Their acquisition obligates each man in some way to change his life, even if it is only his inner life. They demand to be stood for. They dictate where a man must concentrate his vision. They determine his moral and intellectual priorities. They provide him with allies and make him enemies. In short, ideas impose an interest in their ultimate fate which goes far beyond the realm of the merely reasonable.

Decter, Midge

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Such as take lodgings in a head that's to be let unfurnished.

Butler, Samuel

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

Keynes, John Maynard

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Ideas move fast when their time comes.

Heilbrun, Carolyn

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In every great time there is some one idea at work which is more powerful than any other, and which shapes the events of the time and determines their ultimate issues.

Bacon, Francis

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We are not to make the ideas of contentment and aspiration quarrel, for God made them fast friends. A man may aspire, and yet be quite content until it is time to raise; and both flying and resting are but parts of one contentment. The very fruit of the gospel is aspiration. It is to the heart what spring is to the earth, making every root, and bud, and bough desire to be more. -

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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

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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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The greatest achievements of the human mind are generally received with distrust.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Williamson, Marianne

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Some people entertain ideas; others put them to work.

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A powerful idea communicates some of its strength to him who challenges it.

Proust, Marcel

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Concepts, like individuals, have their histories and are just as incapable of withstanding the ravages of time as are individuals. But in and through all this they retain a kind of homesickness for the scenes of their childhood.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Good ideas and innovations must be driven into existence by courageous patience.

Rickover, Hyman G.

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The best ideas are common property.

Seneca

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You have to hatch ideas -- and then hitch them.

Everson, Ray D.

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

Simpson, E. L.

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I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.

John Cage

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

Hortense Calisher

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Every composer knows the anguish and despair occasioned by forgetting ideas which one had no time to write down.

Hector Berlioz

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

Emile Chartier

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It's very good for an idea to be commonplace. The important thing is that a new idea should develop out of what is already there so that it soon becomes an old acquaintance. Old acquaintances aren't by any means always welcome, but at least one can't be mistaken as to who or what they are.

Fitzgerald, Penelope

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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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Not just in commerce but in the world of ideas too our age is putting on a veritable clearance sale. Everything can be had so dirt cheap that one begins to wander whether in the end anyone will want to make a bid.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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When patterns are broken, new worlds can emerge.

Kupferberg, Tuli

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The vitality of thought is in adventure. Ideas won't keep. Something must be done about them. When the idea is new, its custodians have fervor, live for it, and if need be, die for it.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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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

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Ideas control the world.

Garfield, James A.

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

John Steinbeck

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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.