Motivational Quotes

Ideas

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

- Avery, Milton

Best Quotes about Ideas

The simple joy of taking an idea into one's own hands and giving it proper form, that's exciting.

Nelson, George

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

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

Eliot, George

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

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

Emile Chartier

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

Avery, Milton

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

Sometimes the best, and only effective, way to kill an idea is to put it into practice.

Harris, Sidney J.

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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An idea is never given to you without you being given the power to make it reality. You must, nevertheless, suffer for it.

Bach, Richard

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

Rickover, Hyman G.

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

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

Frost, Robert

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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Not the one who has many ideas, but the one who has a single conviction may become a great person.

Cotvos

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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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Many ideas are good for a limited time -- not forever.

Townsend, Robert

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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An idea is the only level which moves the world.

Corey, Arthur F.

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

Gibson, Tobias S.

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

Chartier, Alain

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Don't worry about people stealing an idea. If it's original, you will have to ram it down their throats.

Howard Aiken

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

Horton, Doug

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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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Everything begins with an idea.

Nightingale, Earl

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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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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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An idea is a putting truth in check-mate.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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

Bunche, Ralph

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Ideas move fast when their time comes.

Heilbrun, Carolyn

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