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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Very simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds

Gourmont, Remy De

When patterns are broken, new worlds can emerge.

Kupferberg, Tuli

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

Rostand, Jean

Every new idea is an impossibility until it is born.

Brown, Ron

We are governed not by armies, but by ideas.

Caird, Mona

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

P. B. Medawar

Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than in the one where they sprung up.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

Judith Brocklehurst

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

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Chartier, Alain

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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.

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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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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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Never hesitate to steal a good idea.

Neuharth, Al

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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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The difference between people and ideas is... only superficial.

Rorty, Richard

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Ideas are, in truth, force.

James, Henry

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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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The ideas I stand for are not mine. I borrowed them from Socrates. I swiped them from Chesterfield. I stole them from Jesus. And I put them in a book. If you don't like their rules, whose would you use?

Carnegie, Dale

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An idea is a putting truth in check-mate.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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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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An idea is the only level which moves the world.

Corey, Arthur F.

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Some people entertain ideas; others put them to work.

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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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A crank is someone with a new idea -- until it catches on.

Twain, Mark

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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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Ideas too are a life and a world.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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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A great idea is usually original to more than one discoverer. Great ideas come when the world needs them. Great ideas surround the world's ignorance and press for admission.

Phelps, Elizabeth Stuart

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

Butler, Samuel

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An idea is worth nothing if it has no champion.

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

Rivarol, Antoine

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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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There are more ideas on earth than intellectuals imagine. And these ideas are more active, stronger, more resistant, more passionate than politicians think. We have to be there at the birth of ideas, the bursting outward of their force: not in books expressing them, but in events manifesting this force, in struggles carried on around ideas, for or against them. Ideas do not rule the world. But it is because the world has ideas... that it is not passively ruled by those who are its leaders or those who would like to teach it, once and for all, what it must think.

Foucault, Michel

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

Keynes, John Maynard

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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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The simple joy of taking an idea into one's own hands and giving it proper form, that's exciting.

Nelson, George

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

Horton, Doug

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

Hugo, Victor

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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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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

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

Brande, Dorothea

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Ideas not coupled with action never become bigger than the brain cells they occupied.

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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

Block, Henry