Motivational Quotes

Ideas

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

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Best Quotes about Ideas

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

Trotsky, Leon

What you need is an idea.

Lear, William P.

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

Canetti, Elias

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

Hodges, Job E.

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

Ideas too are a life and a world.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Pauling, Linus

An idea is the only level which moves the world.

Corey, Arthur F.

Good ideas and innovations must be driven into existence by courageous patience.

Rickover, Hyman G.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Butler, Samuel

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An idea is a putting truth in check-mate.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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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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Nothing dies harder than a bad idea.

Cameron, Julie

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

Sutton, Percy

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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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Ideas won't work unless you do.

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

Gibson, Tobias S.

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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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

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

Everson, Ray D.

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Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into practice with courageous patience.

Hyman Rickover

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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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Take the obvious, add a cupful of brains, a generous pinch of imagination, a bucketful of courage and daring, stir well and bring to a boil.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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Ideas... they have the power

Hill, Napoleon

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Samuel Goldwyn

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

Horton, Doug

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Never hesitate to steal a good idea.

Neuharth, Al

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Ideas are the roots of creation.

Dimnet, Ernest

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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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Very simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds

Gourmont, Remy De

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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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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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

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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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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