Motivational Quotes

Ideas

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

- Picasso, Pablo

Best Quotes about Ideas

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

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

Saunders, Richard

You look at any giant corporation, and I mean the biggies, and they all started with a guy with an idea, doing it well.

Robbins, Irvine

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

Rostand, Jean

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

Bunche, Ralph

They come into being not through demonstration but through revelation, through the medium of powerful personalities.

Einstein, Albert

An idea is worth nothing if it has no champion.

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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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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Ideas are, in truth, force.

James, Henry

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

Butler, Samuel

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

Gibson, Tobias S.

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We like to test things... no matter how good an idea sounds, test it first.

Block, Henry

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The greatest achievements of the human mind are generally received with distrust.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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An idea is the only level which moves the world.

Corey, Arthur F.

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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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Everything begins with an idea.

Nightingale, Earl

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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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Every composer knows the anguish and despair occasioned by forgetting ideas which one had no time to write down.

Hector Berlioz

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

Jim Hightower

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

Hugo, Victor

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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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Ideas are the roots of creation.

Dimnet, Ernest

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Proust, Marcel

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

Sutton, Percy

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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An idea is a putting truth in check-mate.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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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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Ideas too are a life and a world.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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The vitality of thought is in adventure. Ideas won't keep. Something must be done about them. When the idea is new, its custodians have fervor, live for it, and if need be, die for it.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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Ideas... they have the power

Hill, Napoleon

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One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.

Walter Bagehot

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The best ideas are common property.

Seneca

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

Trotsky, Leon

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We are governed not by armies, but by ideas.

Caird, Mona

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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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Nothing dies harder than a bad idea.

Cameron, Julie

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell