Motivational Quotes

Ideas

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

- Judith Brocklehurst

Best Quotes about Ideas

1.

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

Bridgman, P. W.

2.

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.

3.

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

4.

If you are possessed by an idea, you find it expressed everywhere, you even smell it.

Mann, Thomas

5.

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

6.

Mere words are cheap and plenty enough, but ideas that rouse and set multitudes thinking come as gold for the mines.

Penny, A. Owen

7.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

8.

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

9.

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

Munro, J. Richard

10.

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

Frost, Robert

11.

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

Chartier, Alain

12.

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

13.

It's easy to come up with new ideas; the hard part is letting go of what worked for you two years ago, but will soon be out-of-date.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

14.

Ideas are, in truth, force.

James, Henry

15.

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

Sir Frederick G. Banting

16.

The greatest achievements of the human mind are generally received with distrust.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

17.

Ideas control the world.

Garfield, James A.

18.

Little words hurt big ideas.

Newton, Howard W.

19.

What you need is an idea.

Lear, William P.

20.

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

Rickover, Hyman G.

21.

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

Howard Aiken

22.

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

23.

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

Avery, Milton

24.

When patterns are broken, new worlds can emerge.

Kupferberg, Tuli

25.

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

26.

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

Hodges, Job E.

27.

Nothing dies harder than a bad idea.

Cameron, Julie

28.

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

29.

In Texas, years ago, almost all of the oil came from surface operations. Then someone got the idea that there were greater sources of supply deeper down. A well was drilled five thousand feet deep. The result? A gusher. Too many of us operate on the surface. We never go deep enough to find supernatural resources. The result is, we never operate at our best. More time and investment is involved to go deep but a gusher will pay off.

Montapert, Alfred A.

30.

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

Hortense Calisher

31.

We are governed not by armies, but by ideas.

Caird, Mona

32.

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

33.

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

Pauling, Linus

34.

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

Alfred North Whitehead

35.

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

Rorty, Richard

36.

Never hesitate to steal a good idea.

Neuharth, Al

37.

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

Koysis, Ted

38.

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

Keynes, John Maynard

39.

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes

40.

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

Trotsky, Leon

41.

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

Canetti, Elias

42.

An idea is a putting truth in check-mate.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

43.

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

Harris, Sidney J.

44.

Great ideas originate in the muscles.

Edison, Thomas A.

45.

Ideas won't work unless you do.

46.

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

Rivarol, Antoine

47.

Ideas are the roots of creation.

Dimnet, Ernest

48.

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

Ernst, Morris L.

49.

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

Mason, Ken

50.

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