Motivational Quotes

Ideas

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

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Best Quotes about Ideas

1.

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

Rohn, Jim

2.

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

Bunche, Ralph

3.

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

4.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

5.

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

Townsend, Robert

6.

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

Hortense Calisher

7.

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

Mason, Ken

8.

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.

9.

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

Trotsky, Leon

10.

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

11.

Very simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds

Gourmont, Remy De

12.

We are governed not by armies, but by ideas.

Caird, Mona

13.

Ideas are, in truth, force.

James, Henry

14.

Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into practice with courageous patience.

Hyman Rickover

15.

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

16.

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

Emile Chartier

17.

Go out and buy yourself a five-cent pencil and a ten-cent notebook and begin to write down some million-dollar ideas for yourself.

Grinde, Bob

18.

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

Frost, Robert

19.

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

20.

The best ideas are common property.

Seneca

21.

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.

22.

Some people entertain ideas; others put them to work.

23.

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

Twain, Mark

24.

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

Everson, Ray D.

25.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

26.

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

Eliot, George

27.

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

Alfred North Whitehead

28.

Everything begins with an idea.

Nightingale, Earl

29.

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

Nelson, George

30.

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

Hugo, Victor

31.

Ideas are fatal to caste.

Forster, Edward M.

32.

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

33.

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

34.

Ideas too are a life and a world.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

35.

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

36.

The point, simply, is that we are doing more rediscovering these days than discovering coming anew upon truths that ignorant people refused to examine, over the centuries, because the wise people who held custody of the fundamental truths of nature were unpopular.

Williamson, John

37.

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

Glasgow, Arnold H.

38.

Ideas control the world.

Garfield, James A.

39.

What you need is an idea.

Lear, William P.

40.

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

Butler, Samuel

41.

Don't worry about people stealing an idea. If it's original, you will have to ram it down their throats.

Howard Aiken

42.

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

43.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

44.

So long as new ideas are created, sales will continue to reach new highs.

Brande, Dorothea

45.

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

Ernst, Morris L.

46.

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

47.

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

Rickover, Hyman G.

48.

I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.

John Cage

49.

When patterns are broken, new worlds can emerge.

Kupferberg, Tuli

50.

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