Motivational Quotes

Ideas

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

- Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

Best Quotes about Ideas

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

Samuel Goldwyn

If a man had as many ideas during the day as he does when he has insomnia, he would make a fortune.

Niblack, Griff

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

Nelson, George

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

Avery, Milton

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

Keynes, John Maynard

Man's fear of ideas is probably the greatest dike holding back human knowledge and happiness.

Ernst, Morris L.

When patterns are broken, new worlds can emerge.

Kupferberg, Tuli

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

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

Gibson, Tobias S.

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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 best ideas are common property.

Seneca

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Nothing dies harder than a bad idea.

Cameron, Julie

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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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Think for thyself one good idea, but known to be thine own, is better than a thousand gleaned from fields by others sown.

Wilson, Alexander

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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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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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Every new idea is an impossibility until it is born.

Brown, Ron

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Everything begins with an idea.

Nightingale, Earl

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It first appeared like a crazy idea. It turned out he had a great idea.

Munro, J. Richard

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Ideas won't work unless you do.

24.

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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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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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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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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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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So long as new ideas are created, sales will continue to reach new highs.

Brande, Dorothea

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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

Sir Frederick G. Banting

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We are not to make the ideas of contentment and aspiration quarrel, for God made them fast friends. A man may aspire, and yet be quite content until it is time to raise; and both flying and resting are but parts of one contentment. The very fruit of the gospel is aspiration. It is to the heart what spring is to the earth, making every root, and bud, and bough desire to be more. -

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Rickover, Hyman G.

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

Marquis, Don

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

Twain, Mark

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

Emile Chartier

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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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We are governed not by armies, but by ideas.

Caird, Mona

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An idea is the only level which moves the world.

Corey, Arthur F.

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But how shall I get ideas? Keep your wits open! Observe! Observe! Study! Study! But above all, Think! Think! And when a noble image is indelibly impressed upon the mind -- Act!

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De