Motivational Quotes

Ideas

Great ideas originate in the muscles.

- Edison, Thomas A.

Best Quotes about Ideas

1.

If you have the same ideas as everybody else but have them one week earlier than everyone else then you will be hailed as a visionary. But if you have them five years earlier you will be named a lunatic.

Jones, Barry

2.

The way to combat noxious ideas is with other ideas. The way to combat falsehoods is with truth.

William O. Douglas

3.

Whenever I hear people talking about liberal ideas, I am always astounded that men should love to fool themselves with empty sounds. An idea should never be liberal; it must be vigorous, positive, and without loose ends so that it may fulfill its divine mission and be productive. The proper place for liberality is in the realm of the emotions.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

4.

Ideas too are a life and a world.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

5.

It is not always by plugging away at a difficulty and sticking to it that one overcomes it; often it is by working on the one next to it. Some things and some people have to be approached obliquely, at an angle.

Gide, Andre

6.

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

Howard Aiken

7.

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

8.

Harold, like the rest of us, had many impressions which saved him the trouble of distinct ideas.

Eliot, George

9.

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

Block, Henry

10.

An idea is the only level which moves the world.

Corey, Arthur F.

11.

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

Brown, Les

12.

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

Rivarol, Antoine

13.

To die for an idea; it is unquestionably noble. But how much nobler it would be if men died for ideas that were true!

H. L. Mencken

14.

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

Brande, Dorothea

15.

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

16.

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

Everson, Ray D.

17.

We are governed not by armies, but by ideas.

Caird, Mona

18.

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

Jim Hightower

19.

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

Hugo, Victor

20.

They come into being not through demonstration but through revelation, through the medium of powerful personalities.

Einstein, Albert

21.

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

Canetti, Elias

22.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

23.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

24.

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

25.

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

26.

An idea is worth nothing if it has no champion.

27.

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

Berry, John

28.

It's a pretty good idea to be of good cheer but not all the time. Just at the most unexpected times.

29.

Ideas are the roots of creation.

Dimnet, Ernest

30.

To love an idea is to love it a little more than one should.

Rostand, Jean

31.

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

Picasso, Pablo

32.

Some people entertain ideas; others put them to work.

33.

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

Hyman Rickover

34.

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.

35.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

36.

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

Maritain, Jacques

37.

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

Rickover, Hyman G.

38.

Ideas control the world.

Garfield, James A.

39.

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

Hortense Calisher

40.

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

41.

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

Kettering, Charles F.

42.

An idea is a putting truth in check-mate.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

43.

Ideas move fast when their time comes.

Heilbrun, Carolyn

44.

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