Motivational Quotes

Ideas

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

- Brande, Dorothea

Best Quotes about Ideas

1.

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

2.

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

Rorty, Richard

3.

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

4.

Every composer knows the anguish and despair occasioned by forgetting ideas which one had no time to write down.

Hector Berlioz

5.

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

Twain, Mark

6.

Every revolutionary idea seems to evoke three stages of reaction. They may be summed up by the phrases: (1) It's completely impossible. (2) It's possible, but it's not worth doing. (3) I said it was a good idea all along.

Clarke, Arthur C.

7.

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

8.

A handsome parson is fit for nothing but ti put ideas into the young woman's heads.

Judith Brocklehurst

9.

Ideas move fast when their time comes.

Heilbrun, Carolyn

10.

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

11.

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

Picasso, Pablo

12.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

13.

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

14.

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

Mann, Thomas

15.

Labor gives birth to ideas.

Rohn, Jim

16.

People find ideas a bore because they do not distinguish between live ones and stuffed ones on a shelf.

Pound, Ezra

17.

Lots of people know a good thing the minute the other fellow sees it first.

Hodges, Job E.

18.

Ideas not coupled with action never become bigger than the brain cells they occupied.

Glasgow, Arnold H.

19.

But how shall I get ideas? Keep your wits open! Observe! Observe! Study! Study! But above all, Think! Think! And when a noble image is indelibly impressed upon the mind -- Act!

Marden, Orison Swett

20.

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

Lynch, David

21.

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

Koysis, Ted

22.

We are not to make the ideas of contentment and aspiration quarrel, for God made them fast friends. A man may aspire, and yet be quite content until it is time to raise; and both flying and resting are but parts of one contentment. The very fruit of the gospel is aspiration. It is to the heart what spring is to the earth, making every root, and bud, and bough desire to be more. -

Beecher, Henry Ward

23.

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

Hugo, Victor

24.

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

25.

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.

26.

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

Canetti, Elias

27.

An idea discovered is much better possessed.

Young

28.

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

Alfred North Whitehead

29.

You look at any giant corporation, and I mean the biggies, and they all started with a guy with an idea, doing it well.

Robbins, Irvine

30.

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

Gibson, Tobias S.

31.

Ideas that enter the mind under fire remain there securely and for ever.

Trotsky, Leon

32.

Ideas are the roots of creation.

Dimnet, Ernest

33.

Ideas too are a life and a world.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

34.

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

35.

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

Avery, Milton

36.

When patterns are broken, new worlds can emerge.

Kupferberg, Tuli

37.

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

Hill, Napoleon

38.

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

Everson, Ray D.

39.

Never hesitate to steal a good idea.

Neuharth, Al

40.

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.

41.

Some people entertain ideas; others put them to work.

42.

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

Pauling, Linus

43.

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

Victor Hugo

44.

We are governed not by armies, but by ideas.

Caird, Mona

45.

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

46.

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

Berry, John

47.

Great ideas originate in the muscles.

Edison, Thomas A.

48.

The best ideas are common property.

Seneca

49.

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