Motivational Quotes

Ideas

Many ideas are good for a limited time -- not forever.

- Townsend, Robert

Best Quotes about Ideas

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

Keynes, John Maynard

It's easy to come up with new ideas; the hard part is letting go of what worked for you two years ago, but will soon be out-of-date.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

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

Lynch, David

You look at any giant corporation, and I mean the biggies, and they all started with a guy with an idea, doing it well.

Robbins, Irvine

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

Bridgman, P. W.

Ideas... they have the power

Hill, Napoleon

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

Pauling, Linus

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

Good ideas are a dime a dozen, bad ones are free.

Horton, Doug

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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.

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An idea is worth nothing if it has no champion.

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

Rostand, Jean

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The ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they are right and when they are wrong, are more powerful than is commonly understood. Indeed the world is ruled by little else. Practical men, who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influence, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist.

Keynes, John Maynard

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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 control the world.

Garfield, James A.

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Ideas are a capital that bears interest only in the hands of talent.

Rivarol, Antoine

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

Munro, J. Richard

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Ideas are fatal to caste.

Forster, Edward M.

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

Saunders, Richard

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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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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

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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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I said to myself, I have things in my head that are not like what anyone has taught me - shapes and ideas so near to me - so natural to my way of being and thinking that it hasn't occurred to me to put them down. I decided to start anew, to strip away what I had been taught.

Georgia O'Keeffe

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Ideas that enter the mind under fire remain there securely and for ever.

Trotsky, Leon

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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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Ideas move fast when their time comes.

Heilbrun, Carolyn

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

Butler, Samuel

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Do something. If it doesn't work, do something else. No idea is too crazy.

Jim Hightower

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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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A good idea plus capable men cannot fail; it is better than money in the bank.

Berry, John

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

Anatole France

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There is no prosperity, trade, art, city, or great material wealth of any kind, but if you trace it home, you will find it rooted in a thought of some individual man. --

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Frost, Robert

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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

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An idea is the only level which moves the world.

Corey, Arthur F.

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The best ideas are common property.

Seneca

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We are governed not by armies, but by ideas.

Caird, Mona

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

Hugo, Victor

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Many ideas are good for a limited time -- not forever.

Townsend, Robert

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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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So long as new ideas are created, sales will continue to reach new highs.

Brande, Dorothea

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They come into being not through demonstration but through revelation, through the medium of powerful personalities.

Einstein, Albert

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A single idea, if it is right, saves us the labor of an infinity of experiences.

Maritain, Jacques

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Lots of people know a good thing the minute the other fellow sees it first.

Hodges, Job E.

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Great people talk about ideas. Small people talk about other people.

Gibson, Tobias S.

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It is not always by plugging away at a difficulty and sticking to it that one overcomes it; often it is by working on the one next to it. Some things and some people have to be approached obliquely, at an angle.

Gide, Andre

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Everything begins with an idea.

Nightingale, Earl