Motivational Quotes

Ideas

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

- Saunders, Richard

Best Quotes about Ideas

1.

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

Alfred North Whitehead

2.

Ideas... they have the power

Hill, Napoleon

3.

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

Jim Hightower

4.

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

Proust, Marcel

5.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

6.

An idea is worth nothing if it has no champion.

7.

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

Sutton, Percy

8.

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

Hyman Rickover

9.

Nothing dies harder than a bad idea.

Cameron, Julie

10.

You look at any giant corporation, and I mean the biggies, and they all started with a guy with an idea, doing it well.

Robbins, Irvine

11.

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

12.

Concepts, like individuals, have their histories and are just as incapable of withstanding the ravages of time as are individuals. But in and through all this they retain a kind of homesickness for the scenes of their childhood.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

13.

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

Koysis, Ted

14.

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

Everson, Ray D.

15.

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

16.

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

James, William

17.

What you need is an idea.

Lear, William P.

18.

Some people entertain ideas; others put them to work.

19.

To love an idea is to love it a little more than one should.

Rostand, Jean

20.

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

Judith Brocklehurst

21.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

22.

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

Gibson, Tobias S.

23.

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

Niblack, Griff

24.

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

25.

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

26.

The greatest achievements of the human mind are generally received with distrust.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

27.

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

Block, Henry

28.

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

Penny, A. Owen

29.

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

Townsend, Robert

30.

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

Rivarol, Antoine

31.

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

32.

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

33.

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

34.

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

35.

Ideas control the world.

Garfield, James A.

36.

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

Marquis, Don

37.

A mind once stretched by a new idea never regains its original dimensions.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

38.

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

Hodges, Job E.

39.

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

Bunche, Ralph

40.

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

Einstein, Albert

41.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

42.

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

43.

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

Nelson, George

44.

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

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.

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

47.

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.

48.

An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come.

Victor Hugo

49.

An idea is the only level which moves the world.

Corey, Arthur F.

50.

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

Pauling, Linus