Motivational Quotes

Ideas

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

- Koysis, Ted

Best Quotes about Ideas

The best ideas are common property.

Seneca

Ideas are powerful things, requiring not a studious contemplation but an action, even if it is only an inner action. Their acquisition obligates each man in some way to change his life, even if it is only his inner life. They demand to be stood for. They dictate where a man must concentrate his vision. They determine his moral and intellectual priorities. They provide him with allies and make him enemies. In short, ideas impose an interest in their ultimate fate which goes far beyond the realm of the merely reasonable.

Decter, Midge

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

Gibson, Tobias S.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

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

Ideas control the world.

Garfield, James A.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Rickover, Hyman G.

10.

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

11.

Many ideas are good for a limited time -- not forever.

Townsend, Robert

12.

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

Harris, Sidney J.

13.

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

Eliot, George

14.

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

15.

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

Mann, Thomas

16.

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

Mason, Ken

17.

Little words hurt big ideas.

Newton, Howard W.

18.

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

John Steinbeck

19.

Ideas are the roots of creation.

Dimnet, Ernest

20.

The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it.

P. B. Medawar

21.

Do something. If it doesn't work, do something else. No idea is too crazy.

Jim Hightower

22.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

23.

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

Glasgow, Arnold H.

24.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

25.

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

26.

A crank is someone with a new idea -- until it catches on.

Twain, Mark

27.

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

Penny, A. Owen

28.

Great ideas originate in the muscles.

Edison, Thomas A.

29.

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

Brown, Les

30.

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

Hector Berlioz

31.

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

Walter Bagehot

32.

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

Chartier, Alain

33.

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

Bridgman, P. W.

34.

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.

35.

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

Marquis, Don

36.

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

37.

Every new idea is an impossibility until it is born.

Brown, Ron

38.

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

39.

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

40.

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

41.

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

42.

An idea discovered is much better possessed.

Young

43.

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

44.

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

45.

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

Hodges, Job E.

46.

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

47.

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

Proust, Marcel

48.

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

Kettering, Charles F.

49.

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

Einstein, Albert

50.

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