Motivational Quotes

Ideas

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

- Williamson, Marianne

Best Quotes about Ideas

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

Eliot, George

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

Penny, A. Owen

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

Alfred North Whitehead

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

Bachelard, Gaston

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

Glasgow, Arnold H.

Everything begins with an idea.

Nightingale, Earl

Little words hurt big ideas.

Newton, Howard W.

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

Avery, Milton

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

Hugo, Victor

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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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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

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

Rostand, Jean

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

Twain, Mark

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Ideas control the world.

Garfield, James A.

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

Bunche, Ralph

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

Brande, Dorothea

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

Gibson, Tobias S.

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

Horton, Doug

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A powerful idea communicates some of its strength to him who challenges it.

Proust, Marcel

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The idea that is not dangerous is not worthy of being called an idea at all.

Hubbard, Elbert

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I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.

John Cage

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

Samuel Goldwyn

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Every new idea is an impossibility until it is born.

Brown, Ron

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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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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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Some people entertain ideas; others put them to work.

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An idea discovered is much better possessed.

Young

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

Sir Frederick G. Banting

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In every great time there is some one idea at work which is more powerful than any other, and which shapes the events of the time and determines their ultimate issues.

Bacon, Francis

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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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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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Get your ideas on paper and study them. Do not let them go to waste!

Brown, Les

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An idea is a feat of association, and the height of it is a good metaphor.