Motivational Quotes

Ideas

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

Best Quotes about Ideas

1.

Labor gives birth to ideas.

Rohn, Jim

2.

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

Block, Henry

3.

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

Picasso, Pablo

4.

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

5.

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

6.

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

Anatole France

7.

An idea is the only level which moves the world.

Corey, Arthur F.

8.

What you need is an idea.

Lear, William P.

9.

It is ideas, not vested interests, which are dangerous for good or evil.

Keynes, John Maynard

10.

Long is the road from conception to completion.

Moliere

11.

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

P. B. Medawar

12.

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

Rorty, Richard

13.

Some people entertain ideas; others put them to work.

14.

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

15.

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

Niblack, Griff

16.

Every new idea is an impossibility until it is born.

Brown, Ron

17.

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

Kettering, Charles F.

18.

An idea is a putting truth in check-mate.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

19.

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

Glasgow, Arnold H.

20.

Ideas move fast when their time comes.

Heilbrun, Carolyn

21.

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.

22.

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

Jim Hightower

23.

The ideas of a time are like the clothes of a season: they are as arbitrary, as much imposed by some superior will which is seldom explicit. They are utilitarian and political, the instruments of smooth-running government.

Lewis, Wyndham

24.

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

Hyman Rickover

25.

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

Hortense Calisher

26.

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

Butler, Samuel

27.

But how shall I get ideas? Keep your wits open! Observe! Observe! Study! Study! But above all, Think! Think! And when a noble image is indelibly impressed upon the mind -- Act!

Marden, Orison Swett

28.

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

29.

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

Walter Bagehot

30.

Think for thyself one good idea, but known to be thine own, is better than a thousand gleaned from fields by others sown.

Wilson, Alexander

31.

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

Eliot, George

32.

If you pray for only one thing, .let it be for an idea.

Sutton, Percy

33.

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

Rohn, Jim

34.

The best ideas are common property.

Seneca

35.

Little words hurt big ideas.

Newton, Howard W.

36.

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

37.

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

Hector Berlioz

38.

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

Sir Frederick G. Banting

39.

Not the one who has many ideas, but the one who has a single conviction may become a great person.

Cotvos

40.

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

Everson, Ray D.

41.

An idea is never given to you without you being given the power to make it reality. You must, nevertheless, suffer for it.

Bach, Richard

42.

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

James, William

43.

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

Rostand, Jean

44.

When patterns are broken, new worlds can emerge.

Kupferberg, Tuli

45.

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

Chartier, Alain

46.

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

47.

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

Pauling, Linus

48.

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

49.

An idea is worth nothing if it has no champion.

50.

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