Motivational Quotes

Ideas

Some people entertain ideas; others put them to work.

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Best Quotes about Ideas

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

There are more ideas on earth than intellectuals imagine. And these ideas are more active, stronger, more resistant, more passionate than politicians think. We have to be there at the birth of ideas, the bursting outward of their force: not in books expressing them, but in events manifesting this force, in struggles carried on around ideas, for or against them. Ideas do not rule the world. But it is because the world has ideas... that it is not passively ruled by those who are its leaders or those who would like to teach it, once and for all, what it must think.

Foucault, Michel

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

Frost, Robert

Ideas move fast when their time comes.

Heilbrun, Carolyn

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

Not the one who has many ideas, but the one who has a single conviction may become a great person.

Cotvos

One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.

Walter Bagehot

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When patterns are broken, new worlds can emerge.

Kupferberg, Tuli

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Ideas won't work unless you do.

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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.

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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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Ideas control the world.

Garfield, James A.

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

Alfred North Whitehead

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To love an idea is to love it a little more than one should.

Rostand, Jean

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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

Hugo, Victor

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

Samuel Goldwyn

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Great ideas originate in the muscles.

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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Our greatest lack is not money for any undertaking, but rather ideas, If the ideas are good, cash will somehow flow to where it is needed.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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A single idea, if it is right, saves us the labor of an infinity of experiences.

Maritain, Jacques

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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

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An idea is a putting truth in check-mate.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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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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Sometimes the best, and only effective, way to kill an idea is to put it into practice.

Harris, Sidney J.

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Avery, Milton

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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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Ideas are refined and multiplied in the commerce of minds. In their splendor, images effect a very simple communion of souls.

Bachelard, Gaston

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

Brande, Dorothea

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Ideas are, in truth, force.

James, Henry

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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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Everything begins with an idea.

Nightingale, Earl

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

Hyman Rickover