Motivational Quotes

Ideas

Ideas are the roots of creation.

- Dimnet, Ernest

Best Quotes about Ideas

1.

The best ideas are common property.

Seneca

2.

An idea is the only level which moves the world.

Corey, Arthur F.

3.

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

Hyman Rickover

4.

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

Harris, Sidney J.

5.

Brain cells create ideas. Stress kills brain cells. Stress is not a good idea.

Saunders, Richard

6.

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

Brown, Les

7.

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.

8.

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

Rivarol, Antoine

9.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

10.

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

11.

We like to test things... no matter how good an idea sounds, test it first.

Block, Henry

12.

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

Pauling, Linus

13.

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

Avery, Milton

14.

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

John Cage

15.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

16.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

17.

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

Berry, John

18.

Never hesitate to steal a good idea.

Neuharth, Al

19.

The most important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them.

Bragg, Sir William

20.

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

Rorty, Richard

21.

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

Sir Frederick G. Banting

22.

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

Butler, Samuel

23.

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

24.

He was distinguished for ignorance; for he had only one idea, and that was wrong.

Disraeli, Benjamin

25.

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

Proust, Marcel

26.

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

Jim Hightower

27.

An idea discovered is much better possessed.

Young

28.

There are well-dressed foolish ideas, just as there are will-dressed fools.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

29.

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

Hector Berlioz

30.

Man's fear of ideas is probably the greatest dike holding back human knowledge and happiness.

Ernst, Morris L.

31.

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

Everson, Ray D.

32.

What you need is an idea.

Lear, William P.

33.

We are governed not by armies, but by ideas.

Caird, Mona

34.

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

35.

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

Koysis, Ted

36.

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

37.

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

Hodges, Job E.

38.

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

Simpson, E. L.

39.

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

Howard Aiken

40.

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

Hugo, Victor

41.

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

Chartier, Alain

42.

In every great time there is some one idea at work which is more powerful than any other, and which shapes the events of the time and determines their ultimate issues.

Bacon, Francis

43.

Ideas won't work unless you do.

44.

In Texas, years ago, almost all of the oil came from surface operations. Then someone got the idea that there were greater sources of supply deeper down. A well was drilled five thousand feet deep. The result? A gusher. Too many of us operate on the surface. We never go deep enough to find supernatural resources. The result is, we never operate at our best. More time and investment is involved to go deep but a gusher will pay off.

Montapert, Alfred A.

45.

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

Glasgow, Arnold H.

46.

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.

47.

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

48.

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