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

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

Avery, Milton

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

Harris, Sidney J.

An idea is worth nothing if it has no champion.

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

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

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

Bridgman, P. W.

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.

Ideas won't work unless you do.

A mind once stretched by a new idea never regains its original dimensions.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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If a man had as many ideas during the day as he does when he has insomnia, he would make a fortune.

Niblack, Griff

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Brande, Dorothea

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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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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

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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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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

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I had a monumental idea this morning, but I didn't like it.

Samuel Goldwyn

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

Pound, Ezra

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

Sutton, Percy

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Very simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds

Gourmont, Remy De

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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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Whenever I hear people talking about liberal ideas, I am always astounded that men should love to fool themselves with empty sounds. An idea should never be liberal; it must be vigorous, positive, and without loose ends so that it may fulfill its divine mission and be productive. The proper place for liberality is in the realm of the emotions.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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Ideas... they have the power

Hill, Napoleon

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The best ideas are common property.

Seneca

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

Butler, Samuel

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Ideas are the roots of creation.

Dimnet, Ernest

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There are well-dressed foolish ideas, just as there are will-dressed fools.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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Man's mind, stretched by a new idea, never goes back to its original dimensions.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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

Eliot, George

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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.