Ideas Quotes
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An idea is a specific thought or concept that arises in the mind of a person as a result of thinking. It is a mental picture. Ideas are unproven. They may or may not be verbalized. They are not yet substantiated by data, but may be based on the person's knowledge. Good ideas may have a positive impact on the organization if they can be substantiated or validated by data or input from others. Bad ideas are those that have no ability to be implemented. Both good and bad ideas may help in the process of determining the best course of action. These quotes signify that positive ideas and the ones which are more realistic and which can be realized are the ones which take make you successful. They describe the importance of an idea and the fact that an idea combined with passion and hard work leads to success.
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It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world.
Aristotl
He can compress the most words into the smallest ideas of any man I ever met.
Abraham Lincoln
Nothing is more dangerous than an idea, when a man has only one idea.
Author Unknown
The vitality of thought is in adventure. Ideas won't keep. Something must be done about them.
Alfred North Whitehead
It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.
Anatole France
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
There are only two kinds of scholars; those who love ideas and those who hate them.
Emile Chartier
If at first the idea is absurd, then there is no hope for it.
Aristotle
An idea is salvation by imagination.
Frank Lloyd Wright
Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together.
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
It is better to entertain an idea than to take it home to live with you for the rest of your life.
Randall Jarrell
Every composer knows the anguish and despair occasioned by forgetting ideas which one had no time to write down.
Hector Berlioz
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
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
Certainly, travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living.
Miriam Beard
So many new ideas are at first strange and horrible, though ultimately valuable that a very heavy responsibility rests upon those who would prevent their dissemination.
J. B. S. Haldane
College isn't the place to go for ideas.
Helen Keller
This is my answer to the gap between ideas and action - I will write it out.
Hortense Calisher
It is by acts, and not by ideas that people live.
Anatole France
Don't worry about people stealing an idea. If it's original, you will have to ram it down their throats.
Howard Aiken
Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into practice with courageous patience.
Hyman Rickover
Do something. If it doesn't work, do something else. No idea is too crazy.
Jim Hightower
When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
John Cage
Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.
John Steinbeck
Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle.
Ken Hakuta
Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it.
P. B. Medawar
You ask me if I keep a notebook to record my great ideas. I've only ever had one.
Aristotle
What we need is hatred. From it our ideas are born.
Jean Genet
Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats.
Howard Aiken
I had a monumental idea this morning, but I didn't like it.
Samuel Goldwyn
All great ideas are dangerous.
Randall Jarrell
The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.
F Scott Fitzgerald
A committee is a cul-de-sac down which ideas are lured and then quietly strangled.
Sir Barnett Cocks
No one has ever had an idea in a dress suit.
Sir Frederick G. Banting
If an idea's worth having once, it's worth having twice.
Tom Stoppard
The best ideas are common property.
Seneca
An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come.
Victor Hugo
One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.
Walter Bagehot
When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
Goethe
I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
John Cage
The most powerful factors in the world are clear ideas in the minds of energetic men of good will.
J Arthur Thomson
He can compress the most words into the smallest ideas of any man I ever met.
Abraham Lincoln
The way to combat noxious ideas is with other ideas. The way to combat falsehoods is with truth.
William O. Douglas
If you steal ideas from one source, that's plagiarism, but if you steal ideas from more than one source, that's research.
Laurendo Almeida
The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be feasible.
Author Unknown
The best way to have a good idea is to have lots of ideas.
Randall Jarrell
This is my answer to the gap between ideas and action - I will write it out.
Hortense Calisher
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