Motivational Quotes

Ideas

Nothing dies harder than a bad idea.

- Cameron, Julie

Best Quotes about Ideas

1.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

2.

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

3.

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

Mason, Ken

4.

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

Hugo, Victor

5.

We are governed not by armies, but by ideas.

Caird, Mona

6.

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

Picasso, Pablo

7.

Ideas are, in truth, force.

James, Henry

8.

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

Eliot, George

9.

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

Brande, Dorothea

10.

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

Anatole France

11.

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

Einstein, Albert

12.

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

Bridgman, P. W.

13.

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

Block, Henry

14.

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

15.

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

Hodges, Job E.

16.

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

Alfred North Whitehead

17.

Long is the road from conception to completion.

Moliere

18.

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

19.

It's very good for an idea to be commonplace. The important thing is that a new idea should develop out of what is already there so that it soon becomes an old acquaintance. Old acquaintances aren't by any means always welcome, but at least one can't be mistaken as to who or what they are.

Fitzgerald, Penelope

20.

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

William O. Douglas

21.

An idea is not responsible for the people who believe in it.

Marquis, Don

22.

I had a monumental idea this morning, but I didn't like it.

Samuel Goldwyn

23.

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

24.

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

Keynes, John Maynard

25.

Little words hurt big ideas.

Newton, Howard W.

26.

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

Simpson, E. L.

27.

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

28.

Never hesitate to steal a good idea.

Neuharth, Al

29.

An idea discovered is much better possessed.

Young

30.

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

31.

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

Townsend, Robert

32.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

33.

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

Brown, Les

34.

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

Hector Berlioz

35.

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

Hill, Napoleon

36.

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

Trotsky, Leon

37.

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

John Cage

38.

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

Frost, Robert

39.

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

Rivarol, Antoine

40.

Ideas control the world.

Garfield, James A.

41.

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

Gibson, Tobias S.

42.

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.

Oech, Roger Von

43.

An idea is the only level which moves the world.

Corey, Arthur F.

44.

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

Maritain, Jacques

45.

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

Niblack, Griff

46.

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

P. B. Medawar

47.

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

48.

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

49.

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

Walter Bagehot

50.

Labor gives birth to ideas.

Rohn, Jim

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