Motivational Quotes

Ideas

A new idea is first condemned as ridiculous and then dismissed as trivial, until finally, it becomes what everybody knows.

- James, William

Best Quotes about Ideas

An idea is a putting truth in check-mate.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

Ideas can be life-changing. Sometimes all you need to open the door is just one more good idea.

Rohn, Jim

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

Hector Berlioz

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

Mason, Ken

It is a lesson which all history teaches wise men, to put trust in ideas, and not in circumstances.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Ideas too are a life and a world.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.

John Steinbeck

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Horton, Doug

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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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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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Very simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds

Gourmont, Remy De

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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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Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into practice with courageous patience.

Hyman Rickover

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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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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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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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Nothing dies harder than a bad idea.

Cameron, Julie

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

Sutton, Percy

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

Judith Brocklehurst

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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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Lots of people know a good thing the minute the other fellow sees it first.

Hodges, Job E.

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When patterns are broken, new worlds can emerge.

Kupferberg, Tuli

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Labor gives birth to ideas.

Rohn, Jim

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

Townsend, Robert

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

Keynes, John Maynard

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

Samuel Goldwyn

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This is my answer to the gap between ideas and action - I will write it out.

Hortense Calisher

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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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Great ideas originate in the muscles.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Bunche, Ralph

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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

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Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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Some people entertain ideas; others put them to work.

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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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An idea discovered is much better possessed.

Young

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

Einstein, Albert

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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 control the world.

Garfield, James A.

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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

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Ideals are like stars: you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the ocean desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them, you reach your destiny.

Carl Schurz

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

Williamson, Marianne

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We are governed not by armies, but by ideas.

Caird, Mona

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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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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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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.