Motivational Quotes

Ideas

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

- Hector Berlioz

Best Quotes about Ideas

1.

An idea is worth nothing if it has no champion.

2.

Very simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds

Gourmont, Remy De

3.

Great ideas originate in the muscles.

Edison, Thomas A.

4.

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

Chartier, Alain

5.

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

Cotvos

6.

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

7.

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

Rivarol, Antoine

8.

Ideas... they have the power

Hill, Napoleon

9.

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

Hugo, Victor

10.

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

Lynch, David

11.

An idea discovered is much better possessed.

Young

12.

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

John Steinbeck

13.

This is my answer to the gap between ideas and action - I will write it out.

Hortense Calisher

14.

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

Keynes, John Maynard

15.

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

Howard Aiken

16.

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

Nelson, George

17.

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

Townsend, Robert

18.

If you want to kill any idea in the world today, get a committee working on it.

Kettering, Charles F.

19.

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

Koysis, Ted

20.

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

Samuel Goldwyn

21.

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

Rickover, Hyman G.

22.

Everything begins with an idea.

Nightingale, Earl

23.

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

Gibson, Tobias S.

24.

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

Eliot, George

25.

We are governed not by armies, but by ideas.

Caird, Mona

26.

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

Block, Henry

27.

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

28.

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

Jim Hightower

29.

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

Niblack, Griff

30.

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

31.

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

Simpson, E. L.

32.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

33.

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

34.

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

Proust, Marcel

35.

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

36.

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

Hyman Rickover

37.

Little words hurt big ideas.

Newton, Howard W.

38.

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

39.

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

Emile Chartier

40.

What you need is an idea.

Lear, William P.

41.

Ideas move fast when their time comes.

Heilbrun, Carolyn

42.

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

Alfred North Whitehead

43.

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

Hodges, Job E.

44.

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

Maritain, Jacques

45.

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

46.

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

Marquis, Don

47.

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

John Cage

48.

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

Walter Bagehot

49.

When patterns are broken, new worlds can emerge.