Motivational Quotes

Ideas

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

Best Quotes about Ideas

1.

To have a great idea, have a lot of them.

Edison, Thomas A.

2.

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

Townsend, Robert

3.

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

Hugo, Victor

4.

Such as take lodgings in a head that's to be let unfurnished.

Butler, Samuel

5.

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

John Steinbeck

6.

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

Bridgman, P. W.

7.

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

Koysis, Ted

8.

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

9.

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

10.

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

Twain, Mark

11.

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes

12.

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

Eliot, George

13.

Ideas... they have the power

Hill, Napoleon

14.

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

Sir Frederick G. Banting

15.

An idea is a putting truth in check-mate.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

16.

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

Pound, Ezra

17.

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

Horton, Doug

18.

What you need is an idea.

Lear, William P.

19.

Nothing dies harder than a bad idea.

Cameron, Julie

20.

When an idea reaches critical mass there is no stopping the shift its presence will induce.

Williamson, Marianne

21.

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

Judith Brocklehurst

22.

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

23.

An idea is the only level which moves the world.

Corey, Arthur F.

24.

To love an idea is to love it a little more than one should.

Rostand, Jean

25.

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

Trotsky, Leon

26.

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

27.

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

Einstein, Albert

28.

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

Rorty, Richard

29.

The best ideas are common property.

Seneca

30.

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

Glasgow, Arnold H.

31.

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

Rickover, Hyman G.

32.

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

33.

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

Rivarol, Antoine

34.

Ideas control the world.

Garfield, James A.

35.

Ideas won't work unless you do.

36.

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

Sutton, Percy

37.

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

Kettering, Charles F.

38.

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

Block, Henry

39.

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

40.

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

41.

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

Berry, John

42.

Ideas are the roots of creation.

Dimnet, Ernest

43.

Labor gives birth to ideas.

Rohn, Jim

44.

Some people entertain ideas; others put them to work.

45.

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

Avery, Milton

46.

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

47.

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

Proust, Marcel

48.

A new idea is first condemned as ridiculous and then dismissed as trivial, until finally, it becomes what everybody knows.

James, William

49.

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

Munro, J. Richard

50.

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