Motivational Quotes

Ideas

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

- Glasgow, Arnold H.

Best Quotes about Ideas

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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.

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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

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

Hubbard, Elbert

4.

Never hesitate to steal a good idea.

Neuharth, Al

5.

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

6.

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

Twain, Mark

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

Emile Chartier

8.

Great ideas originate in the muscles.

Edison, Thomas A.

9.

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

Judith Brocklehurst

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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

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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

12.

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

Mason, Ken

13.

What you need is an idea.

Lear, William P.

14.

A powerful idea communicates some of its strength to him who challenges it.

Proust, Marcel

15.

Everything begins with an idea.

Nightingale, Earl

16.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

17.

A new idea is like a child. It's easier to conceive than to deliver.

Koysis, Ted

18.

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

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

Hyman Rickover

20.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

21.

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

Marquis, Don

22.

A new idea is first condemned as ridiculous and then dismissed as trivial, until finally, it becomes what everybody knows.

James, William

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

Hugo, Victor

24.

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

Everson, Ray D.

25.

We are governed not by armies, but by ideas.

Caird, Mona

26.

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

27.

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

Jim Hightower

28.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

29.

Ideas lose themselves as quickly as quail, and one must wing them the minute they rise out of the grass, or they are gone.

Kennedy, Thomas F.

30.

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

Maritain, Jacques

31.

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

Penny, A. Owen

32.

Greater than the tread of mighty armies is an idea whose time has come.

Hugo, Victor

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

P. B. Medawar

34.

Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than in the one where they sprung up.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

35.

Brain cells create ideas. Stress kills brain cells. Stress is not a good idea.

Saunders, Richard

36.

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

Samuel Goldwyn

37.

Ideas won't work unless you do.

38.

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

Ernst, Morris L.

39.

Nothing dies harder than a bad idea.

Cameron, Julie

40.

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

Howard Aiken

41.

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

Rivarol, Antoine

42.

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

Glasgow, Arnold H.

43.

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

Eliot, George

44.

Ideas... they have the power

Hill, Napoleon

45.

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

46.

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

Frost, Robert

49.

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

Hill, Napoleon

50.

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

Edison, Thomas A.