Motivational Quotes

Ideas

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

- Disraeli, Benjamin

Best Quotes about Ideas

1.

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

Pauling, Linus

2.

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

Brande, Dorothea

3.

Labor gives birth to ideas.

Rohn, Jim

4.

Great ideas originate in the muscles.

Edison, Thomas A.

5.

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

6.

I had a monumental idea this morning, but I didn't like it.

Samuel Goldwyn

7.

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

Sir Frederick G. Banting

8.

Never hesitate to steal a good idea.

Neuharth, Al

9.

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

10.

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

Trotsky, Leon

11.

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

Alfred North Whitehead

12.

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

Bunche, Ralph

13.

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

Townsend, Robert

14.

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

Harris, Sidney J.

15.

Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than in the one where they sprung up.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

16.

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.

17.

When patterns are broken, new worlds can emerge.

Kupferberg, Tuli

18.

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

Twain, Mark

19.

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

20.

A new idea is first condemned as ridiculous and then dismissed as trivial, until finally, it becomes what everybody knows.

James, William

21.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

22.

Ideas are the roots of creation.

Dimnet, Ernest

23.

Some people entertain ideas; others put them to work.

24.

Nothing dies harder than a bad idea.

Cameron, Julie

25.

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

26.

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.

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.

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

Berry, John

29.

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

Williamson, Marianne

30.

Ideas are, in truth, force.

James, Henry

31.

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

Avery, Milton

32.

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

Butler, Samuel

33.

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

Howard Aiken

34.

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

35.

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

Block, Henry

36.

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

Victor Hugo

37.

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

Maritain, Jacques

38.

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

39.

Ideas... they have the power

Hill, Napoleon

40.

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

John Steinbeck

41.

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

Simpson, E. L.

42.

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

Gibson, Tobias S.

43.

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

Lynch, David

44.

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

45.

Ideas won't work unless you do.

46.

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

Hugo, Victor

47.

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

Picasso, Pablo

48.

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

Whitehead, Alfred North