Motivational Quotes

Ideas

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

- Whitehead, Alfred North

Best Quotes about Ideas

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

Judith Brocklehurst

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

Pound, Ezra

You look at any giant corporation, and I mean the biggies, and they all started with a guy with an idea, doing it well.

Robbins, Irvine

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

Rohn, Jim

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

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

In every great time there is some one idea at work which is more powerful than any other, and which shapes the events of the time and determines their ultimate issues.

Bacon, Francis

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

Hill, Napoleon

Labor gives birth to ideas.

Rohn, Jim

10.

It is the nature of thought to find its way into action.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

11.

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

12.

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

13.

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

Jim Hightower

14.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

15.

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

16.

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

17.

Ideas are fatal to caste.

Forster, Edward M.

18.

It doesn't matter how new an idea is: what matters is how new it becomes.

Canetti, Elias

19.

Long is the road from conception to completion.

Moliere

20.

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

21.

Ideas won't work unless you do.

22.

Not just in commerce but in the world of ideas too our age is putting on a veritable clearance sale. Everything can be had so dirt cheap that one begins to wander whether in the end anyone will want to make a bid.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

23.

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

Berry, John

24.

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

25.

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

Chartier, Alain

26.

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

Einstein, Albert

27.

Some people entertain ideas; others put them to work.

28.

The vitality of thought is in adventure. Ideas won't keep. Something must be done about them. When the idea is new, its custodians have fervor, live for it, and if need be, die for it.

Whitehead, Alfred North

29.

Great people talk about ideas. Small people talk about other people.

Gibson, Tobias S.

30.

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

31.

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

Williamson, Marianne

32.

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

Keynes, John Maynard

33.

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

Rorty, Richard

34.

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

Niblack, Griff

35.

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

Hyman Rickover

36.

An idea is worth nothing if it has no champion.

37.

The greatest achievements of the human mind are generally received with distrust.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

38.

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

John Steinbeck

39.

Very simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds

Gourmont, Remy De

40.

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

Everson, Ray D.

41.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

42.

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

43.

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

44.

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

Nelson, George

45.

Ideas are powerful things, requiring not a studious contemplation but an action, even if it is only an inner action. Their acquisition obligates each man in some way to change his life, even if it is only his inner life. They demand to be stood for. They dictate where a man must concentrate his vision. They determine his moral and intellectual priorities. They provide him with allies and make him enemies. In short, ideas impose an interest in their ultimate fate which goes far beyond the realm of the merely reasonable.

Decter, Midge

46.

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

47.

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

Eliot, George

48.

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

John Cage

49.

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.