Motivational Quotes

Ideas

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

- Townsend, Robert

Best Quotes about Ideas

1.

Getting an idea should be like sitting down on a pin. It should make you jump up and do something.

Simpson, E. L.

2.

Man's fear of ideas is probably the greatest dike holding back human knowledge and happiness.

Ernst, Morris L.

3.

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

4.

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

Block, Henry

5.

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

6.

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

Judith Brocklehurst

7.

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

Avery, Milton

8.

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

9.

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes

10.

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

Everson, Ray D.

11.

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.

12.

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

Hector Berlioz

13.

Ideas move fast when their time comes.

Heilbrun, Carolyn

14.

Ideas are the roots of creation.

Dimnet, Ernest

15.

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

Penny, A. Owen

16.

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

17.

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

Kettering, Charles F.

18.

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

19.

Not the one who has many ideas, but the one who has a single conviction may become a great person.

Cotvos

20.

Never hesitate to steal a good idea.

Neuharth, Al

21.

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

Hortense Calisher

22.

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

Niblack, Griff

23.

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

Walter Bagehot

24.

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

Bridgman, P. W.

25.

When patterns are broken, new worlds can emerge.

Kupferberg, Tuli

26.

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

Townsend, Robert

27.

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

Keynes, John Maynard

28.

Every new idea is an impossibility until it is born.

Brown, Ron

29.

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

30.

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

31.

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

Munro, J. Richard

32.

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

Sutton, Percy

33.

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

Hill, Napoleon

34.

The vitality of thought is in adventure. Ideas won't keep. Something must be done about them.

Alfred North Whitehead

35.

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

36.

Some people entertain ideas; others put them to work.

37.

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

Saunders, Richard

38.

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

William O. Douglas

39.

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

Trotsky, Leon