Motivational Quotes

Ideas

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

- Saunders, Richard

Best Quotes about Ideas

1.

Everything begins with an idea.

Nightingale, Earl

2.

An idea is a putting truth in check-mate.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

3.

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

Chartier, Alain

4.

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

Anatole France

5.

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

6.

If a man had as many ideas during the day as he does when he has insomnia, he would make a fortune.

Niblack, Griff

7.

The ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they are right and when they are wrong, are more powerful than is commonly understood. Indeed the world is ruled by little else. Practical men, who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influence, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist.

Keynes, John Maynard

8.

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

Hodges, Job E.

9.

Great ideas originate in the muscles.

Edison, Thomas A.

10.

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

Walter Bagehot

11.

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

James, William

12.

Little words hurt big ideas.

Newton, Howard W.

13.

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

Picasso, Pablo

14.

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.

15.

Ideas are the roots of creation.

Dimnet, Ernest

16.

Ideas are, in truth, force.

James, Henry

17.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

18.

Ideas move fast when their time comes.

Heilbrun, Carolyn

19.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

20.

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

21.

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

Frost, Robert

22.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

23.

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

Jim Hightower

24.

Never hesitate to steal a good idea.

Neuharth, Al

25.

A single idea, if it is right, saves us the labor of an infinity of experiences.

Maritain, Jacques

26.

Long is the road from conception to completion.

Moliere

27.

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

Williamson, Marianne

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.

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

Penny, A. Owen

30.

Nothing dies harder than a bad idea.

Cameron, Julie

31.

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

Bachelard, Gaston

32.

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

33.

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

34.

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

35.

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

Twain, Mark

36.

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

Butler, Samuel

37.

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

William O. Douglas

38.

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

Saunders, Richard

39.

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

40.

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

Townsend, Robert

41.

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

42.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

43.

Ideas control the world.

Garfield, James A.

44.

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

45.

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

46.

An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come.

Victor Hugo

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.

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes

49.

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

Everson, Ray D.

50.

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

Lynch, David