Motivational Quotes

Ideas

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

- Pauling, Linus

Best Quotes about Ideas

You have to hatch ideas -- and then hitch them.

Everson, Ray D.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Niblack, Griff

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

Marquis, Don

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

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

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

Little words hurt big ideas.

Newton, Howard W.

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

Williamson, Marianne

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

Brande, Dorothea

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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

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The world moves, and ideas that were good once are not always good.

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Ideas are, in truth, force.

James, Henry

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

Proust, Marcel

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

Saunders, Richard

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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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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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Ideas lose themselves as quickly as quail, and one must wing them the minute they rise out of the grass, or they are gone.

Kennedy, Thomas F.

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

Bunche, Ralph

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If you have the same ideas as everybody else but have them one week earlier than everyone else then you will be hailed as a visionary. But if you have them five years earlier you will be named a lunatic.

Jones, Barry

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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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Some people entertain ideas; others put them to work.

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Every new idea is an impossibility until it is born.

Brown, Ron

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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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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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Such as take lodgings in a head that's to be let unfurnished.

Butler, Samuel

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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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Ideas are fatal to caste.

Forster, Edward M.

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

Hugo, Victor

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The greatest achievements of the human mind are generally received with distrust.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Frost, Robert

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Ideas too are a life and a world.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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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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

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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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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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Ideas control the world.

Garfield, James A.

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Whenever I hear people talking about liberal ideas, I am always astounded that men should love to fool themselves with empty sounds. An idea should never be liberal; it must be vigorous, positive, and without loose ends so that it may fulfill its divine mission and be productive. The proper place for liberality is in the realm of the emotions.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than in the one where they sprung up.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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A new idea is like a child. It's easier to conceive than to deliver.

Koysis, Ted

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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.