Motivational Quotes

Ideas

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

- Horton, Doug

Best Quotes about Ideas

Brain cells create ideas. Stress kills brain cells. Stress is not a good idea.

Saunders, Richard

It's a pretty good idea to be of good cheer but not all the time. Just at the most unexpected times.

It is ideas, not vested interests, which are dangerous for good or evil.

Keynes, John Maynard

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

Pound, Ezra

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

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

Very simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds

Gourmont, Remy De

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

Hugo, Victor

A handsome parson is fit for nothing but ti put ideas into the young woman's heads.

Judith Brocklehurst

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

Bunche, Ralph

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

Twain, Mark

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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 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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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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The best ideas are common property.

Seneca

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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There are only two kinds of scholars; those who love ideas and those who hate them.

Emile Chartier

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

Rickover, Hyman G.

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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

Alfred North Whitehead

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

Samuel Goldwyn

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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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A man is not necessarily intelligent because he has plenty of ideas, any more than he is a good general because he has plenty of soldiers.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

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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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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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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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Nothing is more dangerous than an idea, when you only have one.

Chartier, Alain

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Ideas too are a life and a world.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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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An idea is a putting truth in check-mate.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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

Eliot, George

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

Canetti, Elias

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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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Go out and buy yourself a five-cent pencil and a ten-cent notebook and begin to write down some million-dollar ideas for yourself.

Grinde, Bob

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I'm not impressed with the power of a corporate president. I am impressed with the power of ideas.

Mason, Ken

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

Rorty, Richard

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The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it.

P. B. Medawar

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An idea is worth nothing if it has no champion.