Motivational Quotes

Ideas

Nothing dies harder than a bad idea.

- Cameron, Julie

Best Quotes about Ideas

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

Pound, Ezra

Ideas too are a life and a world.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Hodges, Job E.

An idea is the only level which moves the world.

Corey, Arthur F.

Labor gives birth to ideas.

Rohn, Jim

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

Hyman Rickover

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

It is not always by plugging away at a difficulty and sticking to it that one overcomes it; often it is by working on the one next to it. Some things and some people have to be approached obliquely, at an angle.

Gide, Andre

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

10.

Every new idea is an impossibility until it is born.

Brown, Ron

11.

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

12.

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

Samuel Goldwyn

13.

Good ideas are a dime a dozen, bad ones are free.

Horton, Doug

14.

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

Howard Aiken

15.

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

Emile Chartier

16.

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

Glasgow, Arnold H.

17.

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

18.

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

Walter Bagehot

19.

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

Ernst, Morris L.

20.

Sometimes the best, and only effective, way to kill an idea is to put it into practice.

Harris, Sidney J.

21.

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

22.

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

Munro, J. Richard

23.

If you have the same ideas as everybody else but have them one week earlier than everyone else then you will be hailed as a visionary. But if you have them five years earlier you will be named a lunatic.

Jones, Barry

24.

Ideas are the roots of creation.

Dimnet, Ernest

25.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

26.

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

27.

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

Townsend, Robert

28.

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

Niblack, Griff

29.

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

Keynes, John Maynard

30.

Ideas control the world.

Garfield, James A.

31.

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

Hugo, Victor

32.

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

33.

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

Rivarol, Antoine

34.

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes

35.

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

Nelson, George

36.

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

37.

A pile of rocks ceases to be a rock when somebody contemplates it with the idea of a cathedral in mind.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

38.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

39.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

40.

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

41.

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

Cotvos

42.

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

43.

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

Jim Hightower

44.

Some people entertain ideas; others put them to work.

45.

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

46.

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

Lynch, David

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

Maritain, Jacques

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

Twain, Mark

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If you are possessed by an idea, you find it expressed everywhere, you even smell it.

Mann, Thomas

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

Everson, Ray D.

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