Motivational Quotes

Ideas

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

- Bachelard, Gaston

Best Quotes about Ideas

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

Brown, Les

It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.

Anatole France

Very simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds

Gourmont, Remy De

Ideas are a capital that bears interest only in the hands of talent.

Rivarol, Antoine

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Williamson, Marianne

Ideas are fatal to caste.

Forster, Edward M.

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

Some people entertain ideas; others put them to work.

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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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Labor gives birth to ideas.

Rohn, Jim

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

Bachelard, Gaston

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

Rorty, Richard

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

Rickover, Hyman G.

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

Saunders, Richard

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We are governed not by armies, but by ideas.

Caird, Mona

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The ideas dictate everything, you have to be true to that or you're dead.

Lynch, David

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

Twain, Mark

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

Berry, John

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

Hugo, Victor

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When patterns are broken, new worlds can emerge.

Kupferberg, Tuli

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

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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

Proust, Marcel

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A single idea, if it is right, saves us the labor of an infinity of experiences.

Maritain, Jacques

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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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An idea is a putting truth in check-mate.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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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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An idea discovered is much better possessed.

Young

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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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Ideas won't work unless you do.

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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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He was distinguished for ignorance; for he had only one idea, and that was wrong.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Bunche, Ralph

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If you want to kill any idea in the world today, get a committee working on it.

Kettering, Charles F.

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What you need is an idea.

Lear, William P.

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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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An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come.

Victor Hugo

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An idea is the only level which moves the world.

Corey, Arthur F.

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Long is the road from conception to completion.

Moliere

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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.