Motivational Quotes

Ideas

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

- Hortense Calisher

Best Quotes about Ideas

1.

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

Hyman Rickover

2.

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

3.

Ideas won't work unless you do.

4.

Brain cells create ideas. Stress kills brain cells. Stress is not a good idea.

Saunders, Richard

5.

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

Niblack, Griff

6.

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

William O. Douglas

7.

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

8.

The best ideas are common property.

Seneca

9.

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.

10.

A handsome parson is fit for nothing but ti put ideas into the young woman's heads.

Judith Brocklehurst

11.

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

Rorty, Richard

12.

Good ideas are a dime a dozen, bad ones are free.

Horton, Doug

13.

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

Avery, Milton

14.

Little words hurt big ideas.

Newton, Howard W.

15.

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

Hodges, Job E.

16.

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

Proust, Marcel

17.

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

Hugo, Victor

18.

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

Frost, Robert

19.

We are not to make the ideas of contentment and aspiration quarrel, for God made them fast friends. A man may aspire, and yet be quite content until it is time to raise; and both flying and resting are but parts of one contentment. The very fruit of the gospel is aspiration. It is to the heart what spring is to the earth, making every root, and bud, and bough desire to be more. -

Beecher, Henry Ward

20.

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

Marquis, Don

21.

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

22.

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

23.

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

Canetti, Elias

24.

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

25.

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

Pauling, Linus

26.

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

27.

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

Brown, Les

28.

There is no adequate defense, except stupidity, against the impact of a new idea.

Bridgman, P. W.

29.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

30.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

31.

Nothing dies harder than a bad idea.

Cameron, Julie

32.

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

33.

Ideas control the world.

Garfield, James A.

34.

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

35.

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

John Steinbeck

36.

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

Howard Aiken

37.

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

Sutton, Percy

38.

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

39.

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

Gibson, Tobias S.

40.

Every new idea is an impossibility until it is born.

Brown, Ron

41.

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

Picasso, Pablo

42.

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

Harris, Sidney J.

43.

Ideas... they have the power

Hill, Napoleon

44.

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

Trotsky, Leon

45.

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

Mason, Ken

46.

Once I thought ideas were exceptions not the rule. That is not so. Ideas are so plentiful that they ride by on air. You've only to reach out and snatch one...

Mckeun, Rod

47.

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

48.

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

Hortense Calisher

49.

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

Berry, John

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