Motivational Quotes

Ideas

Never hesitate to steal a good idea.

- Neuharth, Al

Best Quotes about Ideas

1.

Do not follow the ideas of others, but learn to listen to the voice within yourself. Your body and mind will become clear and you will realize the unity of all things.

Dogen

2.

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

Judith Brocklehurst

3.

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

Hodges, Job E.

4.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

5.

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

William O. Douglas

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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

7.

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

8.

Ideas are fatal to caste.

Forster, Edward M.

9.

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

Mann, Thomas

10.

Ideas are the roots of creation.

Dimnet, Ernest

11.

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

12.

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

Block, Henry

13.

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

Townsend, Robert

14.

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

Saunders, Richard

15.

An idea is a putting truth in check-mate.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

16.

Great ideas originate in the muscles.

Edison, Thomas A.

17.

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

18.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

19.

But how shall I get ideas? Keep your wits open! Observe! Observe! Study! Study! But above all, Think! Think! And when a noble image is indelibly impressed upon the mind -- Act!

Marden, Orison Swett

20.

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

Penny, A. Owen

21.

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

Anatole France

22.

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

Marquis, Don

23.

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

Sir Frederick G. Banting

24.

Ideas control the world.

Garfield, James A.

25.

A great idea is usually original to more than one discoverer. Great ideas come when the world needs them. Great ideas surround the world's ignorance and press for admission.

Phelps, Elizabeth Stuart

26.

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

Samuel Goldwyn

27.

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

28.

Nothing dies harder than a bad idea.

Cameron, Julie

29.

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

Bunche, Ralph

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.

Everything begins with an idea.

Nightingale, Earl

32.

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

Mason, Ken

33.

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

34.

An idea is worth nothing if it has no champion.

35.

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

Frost, Robert

36.

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

37.

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

Einstein, Albert