Motivational Quotes

Ideas

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.

Best Quotes about Ideas

1.

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

Judith Brocklehurst

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

Hector Berlioz

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The vitality of thought is in adventure. Ideas won't keep. Something must be done about them. When the idea is new, its custodians have fervor, live for it, and if need be, die for it.

Whitehead, Alfred North

4.

The best ideas are common property.

Seneca

5.

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

Munro, J. Richard

6.

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

7.

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

Rorty, Richard

8.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

9.

When an idea reaches critical mass there is no stopping the shift its presence will induce.

Williamson, Marianne

10.

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

11.

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

Maritain, Jacques

12.

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

Harris, Sidney J.

13.

Many ideas are good for a limited time -- not forever.

Townsend, Robert

14.

Get your ideas on paper and study them. Do not let them go to waste!

Brown, Les

15.

A great idea is usually original to more than one discoverer. Great ideas come when the world needs them. Great ideas surround the world's ignorance and press for admission.

Phelps, Elizabeth Stuart

16.

What you need is an idea.

Lear, William P.

17.

I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.

John Cage

18.

Ideas are the roots of creation.

Dimnet, Ernest

19.

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

Picasso, Pablo

20.

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

Bunche, Ralph

21.

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

22.

An idea is worth nothing if it has no champion.

23.

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

P. B. Medawar

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

Koysis, Ted

25.

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

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It's very good for an idea to be commonplace. The important thing is that a new idea should develop out of what is already there so that it soon becomes an old acquaintance. Old acquaintances aren't by any means always welcome, but at least one can't be mistaken as to who or what they are.

Fitzgerald, Penelope

27.

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

28.

An idea is the only level which moves the world.

Corey, Arthur F.

29.

Good ideas and innovations must be driven into existence by courageous patience.

Rickover, Hyman G.

30.

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

Canetti, Elias

31.

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

Frost, Robert

32.

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

Hill, Napoleon

33.

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

Everson, Ray D.

34.

Ideas are fatal to caste.

Forster, Edward M.

35.

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

Walter Bagehot

36.

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

37.

It's easy to come up with new ideas; the hard part is letting go of what worked for you two years ago, but will soon be out-of-date.

Oech, Roger Von

38.

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

39.

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

Glasgow, Arnold H.

40.

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

Hyman Rickover

41.

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

Niblack, Griff

42.

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

Pound, Ezra

43.

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

Avery, Milton

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.

Ideas control the world.

Garfield, James A.

47.

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

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Very simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds

Gourmont, Remy De

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