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

It is a lesson which all history teaches wise men, to put trust in ideas, and not in circumstances.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Bachelard, Gaston

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

Hubbard, Elbert

Ideas control the world.

Garfield, James A.

Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

An idea is the only level which moves the world.

Corey, Arthur F.

Some people entertain ideas; others put them to work.

Ideals are like stars: you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the ocean desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them, you reach your destiny.

Carl Schurz

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

Mann, Thomas

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Nothing dies harder than a bad idea.

Cameron, Julie

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

Avery, Milton

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

Pauling, Linus

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

Sir Frederick G. Banting

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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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Do something. If it doesn't work, do something else. No idea is too crazy.

Jim Hightower

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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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An idea is not responsible for the people who believe in it.

Marquis, Don

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

Trotsky, Leon

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A good idea plus capable men cannot fail; it is better than money in the bank.

Berry, John

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What you need is an idea.

Lear, William P.

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

Horton, Doug

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Brown, Les

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Ideas too are a life and a world.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Williamson, Marianne

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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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Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.

John Steinbeck

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

Sutton, Percy

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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In Texas, years ago, almost all of the oil came from surface operations. Then someone got the idea that there were greater sources of supply deeper down. A well was drilled five thousand feet deep. The result? A gusher. Too many of us operate on the surface. We never go deep enough to find supernatural resources. The result is, we never operate at our best. More time and investment is involved to go deep but a gusher will pay off.

Montapert, Alfred A.

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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 way to combat noxious ideas is with other ideas. The way to combat falsehoods is with truth.

William O. Douglas

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

Bunche, Ralph

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Bridgman, P. W.

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

Proust, Marcel

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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

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Ideas... they have the power

Hill, Napoleon

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

Twain, Mark

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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