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

1.

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

Block, Henry

2.

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

3.

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

4.

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

John Steinbeck

5.

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

Samuel Goldwyn

6.

Some people entertain ideas; others put them to work.

7.

Very simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds

Gourmont, Remy De

8.

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

9.

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

10.

Everything begins with an idea.

Nightingale, Earl

11.

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

Canetti, Elias

12.

Every new idea is an impossibility until it is born.

Brown, Ron

13.

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

Pauling, Linus

14.

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

Ernst, Morris L.

15.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

16.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

17.

An idea is not responsible for the people who believe in it.

Marquis, Don

18.

Ideas are, in truth, force.

James, Henry

19.

Do not follow the ideas of others, but learn to listen to the voice within yourself. Your body and mind will become clear and you will realize the unity of all things.

Dogen

20.

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

21.

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

Mason, Ken

22.

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

23.

All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.

Hill, Napoleon

24.

An idea is a putting truth in check-mate.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

25.

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

Hyman Rickover

26.

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

Trotsky, Leon

27.

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

28.

Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

29.

The world moves, and ideas that were good once are not always good.

30.

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

Hugo, Victor

31.

Long is the road from conception to completion.

Moliere

32.

Ideas control the world.

Garfield, James A.

33.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

34.

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

35.

It first appeared like a crazy idea. It turned out he had a great idea.

Munro, J. Richard

36.

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

Nelson, George

37.

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.

38.

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

39.

Ideas won't work unless you do.

40.

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

41.

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

Hodges, Job E.

42.

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

43.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

44.

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

Proust, Marcel

45.

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

Glasgow, Arnold H.

46.

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

47.

An idea is a feat of association, and the height of it is a good metaphor.

Frost, Robert

48.

Ideas too are a life and a world.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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