Motivational Quotes

Ideas

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

Best Quotes about Ideas

1.

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

Eliot, George

2.

What you need is an idea.

Lear, William P.

3.

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

Keynes, John Maynard

4.

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

Brande, Dorothea

5.

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

Picasso, Pablo

6.

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

Bridgman, P. W.

7.

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

Jim Hightower

8.

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

Horton, Doug

9.

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

Rickover, Hyman G.

10.

No one has ever had an idea in a dress suit.

Sir Frederick G. Banting

11.

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

Sutton, Percy

12.

Great ideas originate in the muscles.

Edison, Thomas A.

13.

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

Brown, Les

14.

Everything begins with an idea.

Nightingale, Earl

15.

It's easy to come up with new ideas; the hard part is letting go of what worked for you two years ago, but will soon be out-of-date.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

16.

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

Hugo, Victor

17.

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

Niblack, Griff

18.

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

Hill, Napoleon

19.

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

Hyman Rickover

20.

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

Townsend, Robert

21.

Little words hurt big ideas.

Newton, Howard W.

22.

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

Berry, John

23.

The best way to have a good idea is to have a lot of ideas.

Pauling, Linus

24.

Ideas are fatal to caste.

Forster, Edward M.

25.

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

26.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

27.

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

28.

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

Samuel Goldwyn

29.

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

Penny, A. Owen

30.

We are governed not by armies, but by ideas.

Caird, Mona

31.

Never hesitate to steal a good idea.

Neuharth, Al

32.

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

Twain, Mark

33.

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

34.

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes

35.

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

Harris, Sidney J.

36.

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

Bunche, Ralph

37.

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.

38.

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

39.

Every new idea is an impossibility until it is born.

Brown, Ron

40.

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

Gibson, Tobias S.

41.

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

42.

Long is the road from conception to completion.

Moliere

43.

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

Munro, J. Richard

44.

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

45.

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

46.

Ideas are refined and multiplied in the commerce of minds. In their splendor, images effect a very simple communion of souls.

Bachelard, Gaston

47.

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

48.

An idea is the only level which moves the world.

Corey, Arthur F.

49.

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

Marquis, Don

50.

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