Motivational Quotes

Ideas

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

- Hyman Rickover

Best Quotes about Ideas

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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

2.

Ideas can be life-changing. Sometimes all you need to open the door is just one more good idea.

Rohn, Jim

3.

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

Koysis, Ted

4.

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

Keynes, John Maynard

5.

The world moves, and ideas that were good once are not always good.

6.

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

Victor Hugo

7.

Some people entertain ideas; others put them to work.

8.

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

Niblack, Griff

9.

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

Sutton, Percy

10.

When patterns are broken, new worlds can emerge.

Kupferberg, Tuli

11.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

12.

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

13.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

14.

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

15.

People find ideas a bore because they do not distinguish between live ones and stuffed ones on a shelf.

Pound, Ezra

16.

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

17.

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

18.

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

Jim Hightower

19.

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

Walter Bagehot

20.

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

Kettering, Charles F.

21.

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

Saunders, Richard

22.

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

Howard Aiken

23.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

24.

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

Harris, Sidney J.

25.

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

Bunche, Ralph

26.

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

Hugo, Victor

27.

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

Eliot, George

28.

When an idea reaches critical mass there is no stopping the shift its presence will induce.

Williamson, Marianne

29.

The difference between people and ideas is... only superficial.

Rorty, Richard

30.

Little words hurt big ideas.

Newton, Howard W.

31.

There is no adequate defense, except stupidity, against the impact of a new idea.

Bridgman, P. W.

32.

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

John Cage

33.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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.

The point, simply, is that we are doing more rediscovering these days than discovering coming anew upon truths that ignorant people refused to examine, over the centuries, because the wise people who held custody of the fundamental truths of nature were unpopular.

Williamson, John

36.

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

Rivarol, Antoine

37.

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

Lynch, David

38.

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

Frost, Robert

39.

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

Einstein, Albert

40.

Ideas are the roots of creation.

Dimnet, Ernest

41.

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

Simpson, E. L.

42.

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

Rostand, Jean

43.

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

44.

We are governed not by armies, but by ideas.

Caird, Mona

45.

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

Hyman Rickover

46.

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

Alfred North Whitehead

47.

What you need is an idea.

Lear, William P.

48.

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

Pauling, Linus

49.

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

50.

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