Motivational Quotes

Ideas

We are governed not by armies, but by ideas.

- Caird, Mona

Best Quotes about Ideas

Ideas move fast when their time comes.

Heilbrun, Carolyn

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

Simpson, E. L.

Don't worry about people stealing an idea. If it's original, you will have to ram it down their throats.

Howard Aiken

What you need is an idea.

Lear, William P.

It is a lesson which all history teaches wise men, to put trust in ideas, and not in circumstances.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Do something. If it doesn't work, do something else. No idea is too crazy.

Jim Hightower

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Little words hurt big ideas.

Newton, Howard W.

10.

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

P. B. Medawar

11.

An idea is the only level which moves the world.

Corey, Arthur F.

12.

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

Hortense Calisher

13.

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

John Steinbeck

14.

Long is the road from conception to completion.

Moliere

15.

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

16.

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

17.

The simple joy of taking an idea into one's own hands and giving it proper form, that's exciting.

Nelson, George

18.

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

Mann, Thomas

19.

If you want to get across an idea, wrap it up in a person.

Bunche, Ralph

20.

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

Victor Hugo

21.

No one has ever had an idea in a dress suit.

Sir Frederick G. Banting

22.

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

Hill, Napoleon

23.

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

24.

Man's mind, stretched by a new idea, never goes back to its original dimensions.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

25.

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

Picasso, Pablo

26.

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

27.

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

28.

Labor gives birth to ideas.

Rohn, Jim

29.

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

Canetti, Elias

30.

Some people entertain ideas; others put them to work.

31.

It is the nature of thought to find its way into action.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

32.

Ideas won't work unless you do.

33.

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

Anatole France

34.

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

Horton, Doug

35.

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

Lynch, David

36.

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

Maritain, Jacques

37.

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.

38.

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

Pound, Ezra

39.

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

Hector Berlioz

40.

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

41.

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

Bachelard, Gaston

42.

Nothing dies harder than a bad idea.

Cameron, Julie

43.

If a man had as many ideas during the day as he does when he has insomnia, he would make a fortune.

Niblack, Griff

44.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

45.

Great ideas originate in the muscles.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

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If you want to kill any idea in the world today, get a committee working on it.

Kettering, Charles F.

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Everything begins with an idea.

Nightingale, Earl

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

Brande, Dorothea

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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