Motivational Quotes

Ideas

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

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Best Quotes about Ideas

No one has ever had an idea in a dress suit.

Sir Frederick G. Banting

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

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

Saunders, Richard

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

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

Pound, Ezra

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

Once I thought ideas were exceptions not the rule. That is not so. Ideas are so plentiful that they ride by on air. You've only to reach out and snatch one...

Mckeun, Rod

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

Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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

Mann, Thomas

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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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Great ideas originate in the muscles.

Edison, Thomas A.

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An idea discovered is much better possessed.

Young

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Everything begins with an idea.

Nightingale, Earl

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

Williamson, Marianne

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Man's fear of ideas is probably the greatest dike holding back human knowledge and happiness.

Ernst, Morris L.

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Our greatest lack is not money for any undertaking, but rather ideas, If the ideas are good, cash will somehow flow to where it is needed.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Bridgman, P. W.

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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

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I'm not impressed with the power of a corporate president. I am impressed with the power of ideas.

Mason, Ken

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When patterns are broken, new worlds can emerge.

Kupferberg, Tuli

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

Keynes, John Maynard

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

Koysis, Ted

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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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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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Ideas are invented only as correctives to the past. Through repeated rectification of this kind one may hope to disengage an idea that is valid.

Bachelard, Gaston

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

Sutton, Percy

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

Horton, Doug

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All opening moves were the same, like in chess. You don't have to come up with anything new, there's no point, because you're both after the same thing anyway. The game soon finds its own way and it's only at that point that you need a strategy.

Paolo Giordano

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What you need is an idea.

Lear, William P.

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It doesn't matter how new an idea is: what matters is how new it becomes.

Canetti, Elias

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But how shall I get ideas? Keep your wits open! Observe! Observe! Study! Study! But above all, Think! Think! And when a noble image is indelibly impressed upon the mind -- Act!

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Brande, Dorothea

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Nothing is more dangerous than an idea, when you only have one.

Chartier, Alain

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Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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Ideas can be life-changing. Sometimes all you need to open the door is just one more good idea.

Rohn, Jim

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An idea is a putting truth in check-mate.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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The world moves, and ideas that were good once are not always good.

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In Texas, years ago, almost all of the oil came from surface operations. Then someone got the idea that there were greater sources of supply deeper down. A well was drilled five thousand feet deep. The result? A gusher. Too many of us operate on the surface. We never go deep enough to find supernatural resources. The result is, we never operate at our best. More time and investment is involved to go deep but a gusher will pay off.

Montapert, Alfred A.

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

Everson, Ray D.

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The vitality of thought is in adventure. Ideas won't keep. Something must be done about them.

Alfred North Whitehead

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

Walter Bagehot

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Ideas are refined and multiplied in the commerce of minds. In their splendor, images effect a very simple communion of souls.

Bachelard, Gaston

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Every new idea is an impossibility until it is born.

Brown, Ron

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An idea is the only level which moves the world.