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

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

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

Judith Brocklehurst

Ideas move fast when their time comes.

Heilbrun, Carolyn

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

Sutton, Percy

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

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.

People find ideas a bore because they do not distinguish between live ones and stuffed ones on a shelf.

Pound, Ezra

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

Hugo, Victor

10.

It's easy to come up with new ideas; the hard part is letting go of what worked for you two years ago, but will soon be out-of-date.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

11.

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

12.

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

13.

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

Kettering, Charles F.

14.

Very simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds

Gourmont, Remy De

15.

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

Chartier, Alain

16.

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

17.

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

Picasso, Pablo

18.

The point, simply, is that we are doing more rediscovering these days than discovering coming anew upon truths that ignorant people refused to examine, over the centuries, because the wise people who held custody of the fundamental truths of nature were unpopular.

Williamson, John

19.

An idea is a putting truth in check-mate.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

20.

So many new ideas are at first strange and horrible, though ultimately valuable that a very heavy responsibility rests upon those who would prevent their dissemination.

J. B. S. Haldane

21.

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

22.

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

23.

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

Everson, Ray D.

24.

It is the nature of thought to find its way into action.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

25.

Long is the road from conception to completion.

Moliere

26.

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

Eliot, George

27.

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

Marquis, Don

28.

Our greatest lack is not money for any undertaking, but rather ideas, If the ideas are good, cash will somehow flow to where it is needed.

Schuller, Robert H.

29.

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

30.

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

Trotsky, Leon

31.

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

32.

The best ideas are common property.

Seneca

33.

There are more ideas on earth than intellectuals imagine. And these ideas are more active, stronger, more resistant, more passionate than politicians think. We have to be there at the birth of ideas, the bursting outward of their force: not in books expressing them, but in events manifesting this force, in struggles carried on around ideas, for or against them. Ideas do not rule the world. But it is because the world has ideas... that it is not passively ruled by those who are its leaders or those who would like to teach it, once and for all, what it must think.

Foucault, Michel

34.

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.

35.

Ideas control the world.

Garfield, James A.

36.

Ideas... they have the power

Hill, Napoleon

37.

An idea discovered is much better possessed.

Young

38.

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

Samuel Goldwyn

39.

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

40.

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

Mason, Ken

41.

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.

42.

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

Walter Bagehot

43.

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.

44.

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

Saunders, Richard

45.

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

Pauling, Linus

46.

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

Avery, Milton

47.

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

48.

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

49.

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

50.

Ideas are refined and multiplied in the commerce of minds. In their splendor, images effect a very simple communion of souls.

Bachelard, Gaston