Motivational Quotes

Ideas

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

- Jim Hightower

Best Quotes about Ideas

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

Rohn, Jim

The ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they are right and when they are wrong, are more powerful than is commonly understood. Indeed the world is ruled by little else. Practical men, who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influence, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist.

Keynes, John Maynard

The way to combat noxious ideas is with other ideas. The way to combat falsehoods is with truth.

William O. Douglas

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

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

Jim Hightower

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

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

An idea discovered is much better possessed.

Young

The best way to have a good idea is to have a lot of ideas.

Pauling, Linus

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

James, William

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

Picasso, Pablo

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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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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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The vitality of thought is in adventure. Ideas won't keep. Something must be done about them.

Alfred North Whitehead

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Nothing dies harder than a bad idea.

Cameron, Julie

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

Munro, J. Richard

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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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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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An idea is the only level which moves the world.

Corey, Arthur F.

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Ideas... they have the power

Hill, Napoleon

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

Trotsky, Leon

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Mere words are cheap and plenty enough, but ideas that rouse and set multitudes thinking come as gold for the mines.

Penny, A. Owen

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Horton, Doug

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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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If you are possessed by an idea, you find it expressed everywhere, you even smell it.

Mann, Thomas

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

Nelson, George

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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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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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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 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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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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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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The best ideas are common property.

Seneca

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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 worth nothing if it has no champion.

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

Chartier, Alain

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Proust, Marcel

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Man's mind, stretched by a new idea, never goes back to its original dimensions.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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People find ideas a bore because they do not distinguish between live ones and stuffed ones on a shelf.