Motivational Quotes

Ideas

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

- Bovee, Christian Nevell

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.

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

Block, Henry

4.

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

Harris, Sidney J.

5.

It doesn't matter how new an idea is: what matters is how new it becomes.

Canetti, Elias

6.

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.

7.

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

8.

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

Alfred North Whitehead

9.

There is no prosperity, trade, art, city, or great material wealth of any kind, but if you trace it home, you will find it rooted in a thought of some individual man. --

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

10.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

11.

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

12.

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

Cotvos

13.

An idea is worth nothing if it has no champion.

14.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

15.

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

Marquis, Don

16.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

17.

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

18.

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

Berry, John

19.

The best ideas are common property.

Seneca

20.

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

21.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

22.

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.

23.

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

24.

Ideas move fast when their time comes.

Heilbrun, Carolyn

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.

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

Mann, Thomas

27.

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

Hyman Rickover

28.

Every new idea is an impossibility until it is born.

Brown, Ron

29.

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

Maritain, Jacques

30.

Very simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds

Gourmont, Remy De

31.

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

John Steinbeck

32.

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

Nelson, George

33.

Nothing dies harder than a bad idea.

Cameron, Julie

34.

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

P. B. Medawar

35.

Ideas are, in truth, force.

James, Henry

36.

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

Townsend, Robert

37.

Ideas are the roots of creation.

Dimnet, Ernest

38.

An idea discovered is much better possessed.

Young

39.

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

Hill, Napoleon

40.

It's a pretty good idea to be of good cheer but not all the time. Just at the most unexpected times.

41.

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

Rostand, Jean

42.

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

43.

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

44.

When patterns are broken, new worlds can emerge.

Kupferberg, Tuli

45.

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

Eliot, George

46.

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

Lynch, David

47.

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