Motivational Quotes

Ideas

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

- Townsend, Robert

Best Quotes about Ideas

Great ideas originate in the muscles.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

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

Avery, Milton

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

Saunders, Richard

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

Anatole France

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

It doesn't matter how new an idea is: what matters is how new it becomes.

Canetti, Elias

Harold, like the rest of us, had many impressions which saved him the trouble of distinct ideas.

Eliot, George

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

Sutton, Percy

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

Proust, Marcel

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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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Ideas are, in truth, force.

James, Henry

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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 idea that is not dangerous is not worthy of being called an idea at all.

Hubbard, Elbert

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To have a great idea, have a lot of them.

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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Nothing dies harder than a bad idea.

Cameron, Julie

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

Gibson, Tobias S.

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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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There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time has come.

Hugo, Victor

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

Emile Chartier

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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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An idea discovered is much better possessed.

Young

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Ideas are the roots of creation.

Dimnet, Ernest

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Take the obvious, add a cupful of brains, a generous pinch of imagination, a bucketful of courage and daring, stir well and bring to a boil.

Baruch, Bernard M.

33.

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

Brown, Les

34.

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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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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There is no adequate defense, except stupidity, against the impact of a new idea.

Bridgman, P. W.

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

Horton, Doug

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

John Steinbeck

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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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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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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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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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An idea is the only level which moves the world.

Corey, Arthur F.

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

Rorty, Richard

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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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Long is the road from conception to completion.

Moliere

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell