Motivational Quotes

Ideas

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

- Avery, Milton

Best Quotes about Ideas

1.

Ideas... they have the power

Hill, Napoleon

2.

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.

3.

Ideas move fast when their time comes.

Heilbrun, Carolyn

4.

Labor gives birth to ideas.

Rohn, Jim

5.

Human life is driven forward by its dim apprehension of notions too general for its existing language.

Whitehead, Alfred North

6.

Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

7.

I'm not impressed with the power of a corporate president. I am impressed with the power of ideas.

Mason, Ken

8.

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

Anatole France

9.

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

10.

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

Bridgman, P. W.

11.

An idea is the only level which moves the world.

Corey, Arthur F.

12.

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

Picasso, Pablo

13.

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

Chartier, Alain

14.

A crank is someone with a new idea -- until it catches on.

Twain, Mark

15.

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

Gibson, Tobias S.

16.

Long is the road from conception to completion.

Moliere

17.

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

18.

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

Proust, Marcel

19.

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

20.

Great ideas originate in the muscles.

Edison, Thomas A.

21.

The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it.

P. B. Medawar

22.

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

Pauling, Linus

23.

Ideas are a capital that bears interest only in the hands of talent.

Rivarol, Antoine

24.

The ideas dictate everything, you have to be true to that or you're dead.

Lynch, David

25.

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

Hill, Napoleon

26.

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

Munro, J. Richard

27.

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

28.

There is no prosperity, trade, art, city, or great material wealth of any kind, but if you trace it home, you will find it rooted in a thought of some individual man. --

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

29.

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

Hugo, Victor

30.

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

Hugo, Victor

31.

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

Sutton, Percy

32.

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

Maritain, Jacques

33.

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

Butler, Samuel

34.

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.

35.

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

36.

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

Rohn, Jim

37.

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

Emile Chartier

38.

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

Mann, Thomas

39.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

40.

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

41.

A good idea plus capable men cannot fail; it is better than money in the bank.

Berry, John

42.

When patterns are broken, new worlds can emerge.

Kupferberg, Tuli

43.

An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come.

Victor Hugo

44.

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

45.

Not just in commerce but in the world of ideas too our age is putting on a veritable clearance sale. Everything can be had so dirt cheap that one begins to wander whether in the end anyone will want to make a bid.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

46.

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

47.

Getting an idea should be like sitting down on a pin. It should make you jump up and do something.

Simpson, E. L.

48.

A pile of rocks ceases to be a rock when somebody contemplates it with the idea of a cathedral in mind.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

49.

An idea is a putting truth in check-mate.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

50.

This is my answer to the gap between ideas and action - I will write it out.