Motivational Quotes

Ideas

Some people entertain ideas; others put them to work.

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Best Quotes about Ideas

Little words hurt big ideas.

Newton, Howard W.

Ideas too are a life and a world.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

An idea is the only level which moves the world.

Corey, Arthur F.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Hodges, Job E.

When patterns are broken, new worlds can emerge.

Kupferberg, Tuli

All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Brande, Dorothea

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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An idea is worth nothing if it has no champion.

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He was distinguished for ignorance; for he had only one idea, and that was wrong.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Human life is driven forward by its dim apprehension of notions too general for its existing language.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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If you want to get across an idea, wrap it up in a person.

Bunche, Ralph

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

Mann, Thomas

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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 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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An idea is a putting truth in check-mate.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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

Rorty, Richard

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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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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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The most important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them.

Bragg, Sir William

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

Maritain, Jacques

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Ideas won't work unless you do.

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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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An idea is a point of departure and no more. As soon as you elaborate it, it becomes transformed by thought.

Picasso, Pablo

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

Anatole France

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

Everson, Ray D.

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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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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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Ideas are, in truth, force.

James, Henry

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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Mere words are cheap and plenty enough, but ideas that rouse and set multitudes thinking come as gold for the mines.