Motivational Quotes

Ideas

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

- Picasso, Pablo

Best Quotes about Ideas

1.

All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.

Hill, Napoleon

2.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

3.

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

Keynes, John Maynard

4.

The simple joy of taking an idea into one's own hands and giving it proper form, that's exciting.

Nelson, George

5.

Nothing dies harder than a bad idea.

Cameron, Julie

6.

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

Jim Hightower

7.

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

Trotsky, Leon

8.

Ideas too are a life and a world.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

9.

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

10.

The ideas dictate everything, you have to be true to that or you're dead.

Lynch, David

11.

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

12.

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

Berry, John

13.

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

14.

If you want to get across an idea, wrap it up in a person.

Bunche, Ralph

15.

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.

16.

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

P. B. Medawar

17.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

18.

It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.

Anatole France

19.

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

Rickover, Hyman G.

20.

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

Rostand, Jean

21.

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

Picasso, Pablo

22.

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

Rivarol, Antoine

23.

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

Hortense Calisher

24.

He was distinguished for ignorance; for he had only one idea, and that was wrong.

Disraeli, Benjamin

25.

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

Eliot, George

26.

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

Brown, Les

27.

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

Mann, Thomas

28.

An idea is a putting truth in check-mate.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

29.

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

Twain, Mark

30.

Ideas are the roots of creation.

Dimnet, Ernest

31.

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

William O. Douglas

32.

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

Avery, Milton

33.

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

Hugo, Victor

34.

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

35.

Ideas can be life-changing. Sometimes all you need to open the door is just one more good idea.

Rohn, Jim

36.

Little words hurt big ideas.

Newton, Howard W.

37.

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

38.

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

Judith Brocklehurst

39.

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

Rorty, Richard

40.

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

Everson, Ray D.

41.

It is a lesson which all history teaches wise men, to put trust in ideas, and not in circumstances.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

42.

There are only two kinds of scholars; those who love ideas and those who hate them.

Emile Chartier

43.

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

Hugo, Victor

44.

Everything begins with an idea.

Nightingale, Earl

45.

We are governed not by armies, but by ideas.

Caird, Mona

46.

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

Munro, J. Richard

47.

Do not follow the ideas of others, but learn to listen to the voice within yourself. Your body and mind will become clear and you will realize the unity of all things.

Dogen

48.

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

Sutton, Percy

49.

The most important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them.

Bragg, Sir William

50.

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

Bridgman, P. W.