Motivational Quotes

Ideas

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

- Holmes, Oliver Wendell

Best Quotes about Ideas

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Brande, Dorothea

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

Hortense Calisher

All opening moves were the same, like in chess. You don't have to come up with anything new, there's no point, because you're both after the same thing anyway. The game soon finds its own way and it's only at that point that you need a strategy.

Paolo Giordano

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

Everson, Ray D.

Every new idea is an impossibility until it is born.

Brown, Ron

The simple joy of taking an idea into one's own hands and giving it proper form, that's exciting.

Nelson, George

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

James, William

10.

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

11.

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

12.

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

13.

Ideas move fast when their time comes.

Heilbrun, Carolyn

14.

Never hesitate to steal a good idea.

Neuharth, Al

15.

Very simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds

Gourmont, Remy De

16.

It's easy to come up with new ideas; the hard part is letting go of what worked for you two years ago, but will soon be out-of-date.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

17.

Some people entertain ideas; others put them to work.

18.

Ideas won't work unless you do.

19.

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

Pauling, Linus

20.

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

Block, Henry

21.

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

22.

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

23.

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

24.

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

Koysis, Ted

25.

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

Lynch, David

26.

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

Alfred North Whitehead

27.

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

Einstein, Albert

28.

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

29.

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.

30.

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

Glasgow, Arnold H.

31.

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

32.

I'm not impressed with the power of a corporate president. I am impressed with the power of ideas.

Mason, Ken

33.

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

Samuel Goldwyn

34.

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

35.

Little words hurt big ideas.

Newton, Howard W.

36.

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

Hector Berlioz

37.

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

38.

What you need is an idea.

Lear, William P.

39.

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

Hugo, Victor

40.

The best ideas are common property.

Seneca

41.

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

Ernst, Morris L.

42.

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

Cotvos

43.

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

Avery, Milton

44.

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

45.

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

46.

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

Sutton, Percy

47.

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

48.

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

Williamson, Marianne

49.

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.

50.

I said to myself, I have things in my head that are not like what anyone has taught me - shapes and ideas so near to me - so natural to my way of being and thinking that it hasn't occurred to me to put them down. I decided to start anew, to strip away what I had been taught.

Georgia O'Keeffe