Top 101 Ideas Quotes

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#101 – 90. Ideas Quotes

101. If you do not express your own original ideas, if you do not listen to your own being, you will have betrayed yourself. – Rollo May

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

99. Daring Ideas Are Like Chessmen Moved Forward: They May Be Beaten, But They May Start A Winning Game. –  Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

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

97. A good idea will keep you awake during the morning, but a great idea will keep you awake during the night. – Marilyn vos Savant

96. A thought is an idea in transit. – Pythagoras

95. So long as new ideas are created, sales will continue to reach new highs. – Dorothea Brande

94. The idea that global warming is the most important problem facing the world is total nonsense and is doing a lot of harm. – Freeman Dyson

93. An idea is never given to you without you being given the power to make it reality. You must, nevertheless, suffer for it. – Richard Bach

92. The idea of music is to liberate the listener and lead him to a frame where he feels he is elevated. – A. R. Rahman

91. There is no adequate defense, except stupidity, against the impact of a new idea. – P. W. Bridgman

90. If an idea is indeed sensible, it will eventually become just part of the accepted wisdom. – Nigel Farage

#89 – 80. Ideas Quotes

89. The most important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them. – Sir William Bragg

88. The original idea of the web was that it should be a collaborative space where you can communicate through sharing information. – Tim Berners-Lee

87. Believe in something larger than yourself. . . . Get involved in the big ideas of your time. – Barbara Bush

86. An idea, like a ghost, must be spoken to a little before it will explain itself. – Charles Dickens

85. Men are strong only so long as they represent a strong idea. They become powerless when they oppose it. – Sigmund Freud

84. 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. – Gaston Bachelard

83. If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange these apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas. – George Bernard Shaw

82. The good old days, when each idea had an owner, are gone forever. – Paulo Coelho

81. New ideas pass through three periods: 1) It can’t be done. 2) It probably can be done, but it’s not worth doing. 3) I knew it was a good idea all along! – Arthur C. Clarke

80. My idea of a good night has always been having a lovely meal and a proper conversation. – Kirsty Gallacher

#79 – 70. Ideas Quotes

79. Having ideas is like having chessmen moving forward; they may be beaten, but they may start a winning game. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

77. A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a quip and worried to death by a frown on the right man’s brow. – Ovid

76. We are not to make the ideas of contentment and aspiration quarrel, for God made them fast friends. A man may aspire, and yet be quite content until it is time to raise; and both flying and resting are but parts of one contentment. The very fruit of the gospel is aspiration. It is to the heart what spring is to the earth, making every root, and bud, and bough desire to be more. – Henry Ward Beecher

75. 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. – Francis Bacon

74. If I have a thousand ideas and only one turns out to be good, I am satisfied. – Alfred Bernhard Nobel

73. To have a great idea, have a lot of them. – Thomas Edison

72. An Idea Is Salvation By Imagination. – Frank Lloyd Wright

71. Every really new idea looks crazy at first. – Alfred North Whitehead

70. The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret of outward success. – Henry Ward Beecher

#69 – 60. Ideas Quotes

69. Ideas Won’t Keep. Something Must Be Done About Them. – Alfred North Whitehead

68. The air is full of ideas. They are knocking you in the head all the time. You only have to know what you want, then forget it, and go about your business. Suddenly, the idea will come through. It was there all the time. – Henry Ford

67. The best way to have a good idea is to have a lot of ideas. – Linus Pauling

66. Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people. – Eleanor Roosevelt

65. No matter how brilliantly an idea is stated, we will not really be moved unless we have already half thought of it ourselves. – Mignon McLaughlin

64. It is the essence of genius to make use of the simplest ideas. – Charles Peguy

63. Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life – think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success, that is way great spiritual giants are produced. – Swami Vivekananda

62. Don’t be afraid of new ideas. Be afraid of old ideas. They keep you where you are and stop you from growing and moving forward. Concentrate on where you want to go, not on what you fear. – Anthony Robbins

61. No grand idea was ever born in a conference, but a lot of foolish ideas have died there. – F. Scott Fitzgerald

60. There Is One Thing Stronger Than All The Armies In The World, And That Is An Idea Whose Time Has Come. – Victor Hugo

#59 – 50. Ideas Quotes

59. If religion has given birth to all that is essential in society, it is because the idea of society is the soul of religion. – Emile Durkheim

58. Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle. – Ken Hakuta

57. Everything Begins With An Idea. – Earl Nightengale

56. It is useless to send armies against ideas. – George Brandes

55. Don’t worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you’ll have to ram them down people’s throats. – Howard Aiken

54. It is wise to persuade people to do things and make them think it was their own idea. – Nelson Mandela

53. A Pile Of Rocks Ceases To Be A Rock When Somebody Contemplates It With The Idea Of A Cathedral In Mind. – Antoine De St-Exupery

52. Brand is not a product, that’s for sure; it’s not one item. It’s an idea, it’s a theory, it’s a meaning, it’s how you carry yourself. It’s aspirational, it’s inspirational. – Kevin Plank

51. Everyone is in love with their own ideas. – Carl Jung

50. An idea must not be condemned for being a little shy and incoherent; all new ideas are shy when introduced first among our old ones. We should have patience and see whether the incoherency is likely to wear off or to wear on, in which latter case the sooner we get rid of them the better. – Samuel Butler

#49 – 40. Ideas Quotes

49. I had a monumental idea this morning, but I didn’t like it. – Samuel Goldwyn

48. An idea is a point of departure and no more. As soon as you elaborate it, it becomes transformed by thought. – Pablo Picasso

47. Such as take lodgings in a head that’s to be let unfurnished. – Samuel Butler

46. One’s mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions. – Oliver Wendell Holmes

45. Nothing is more dangerous than an idea, when it is the only idea we have. – Henri Alban-Fournier

44. To express the same idea in still another way, I think that human knowledge is essentially active. – Jean Piaget

43. If at first the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it. – Albert Einstein

42. The problem is never how to get new, innovative thoughts into your mind, but how to get old ones out. – Dee Hock

41. An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all. – Oscar Wilde

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

#39 – 30. Ideas Quotes

39. Capital isn’t that important in business. Experience isn’t that important. You can get both of these things. What is important is ideas. – Harvey S. Firestone

38. The idea is in my head to put it down is nothing. – Milton Avery

37. A mediocre idea that generates enthusiasm will go further than a great idea that inspires no one. – Mary Kay Ash

36. The only people in the world who can change things are those who can sell ideas. – Lois Wyse

35. A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on. Ideas have endurance without death. – John F. Kennedy

34. The idea that you would affect evolution is a very profound thing. – Jennifer Doudna

33. Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together. – Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

32. Why is it I always get my best ideas while shaving? – Albert Einstein

31. Nearly every man who develops an idea works it up to the point where it looks impossible, and then he gets discouraged. That’s not the place to become discouraged. – Thomas Edison

30. We think good ideas to death, when we should be acting them to life. – Brian G. Jett

#29 – 20. Ideas Quotes

29. No Idea Is So Outlandish That It Should Not Be Considered With A Searching But At The Same Time A Steady Eye. – Winston Churchill

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

27. Ideas are the beginning points of all fortunes. – Napoleon Hill

26. 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. – Bernard Baruch

25. My ideas usually come not at my desk writing but in the midst of living. – Anais Nin

24. Human history is, in essence, a history of ideas. – H.G. Wells

23. Whatever you want in life, other people are going to want it too. Believe in yourself enough to accept the idea that you have an equal right to it. – Diane Sawyer

22. When an idea exclusively occupies the mind, it is transformed into an actual physical or mental state. – Swami Vivekananda

21. If it’s a good idea, go ahead and do it. It is much easier to apologise than it is to get permission. – Grace Hopper

20. Any idea, plan, or purpose may be placed in the mind through repetition of thought. – Napoleon Hill

#19 – 10. Ideas Quotes

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

18. An idea is not responsible for the people who believe in it. – Don Marquis

17. No Matter What People Tell You, Words And Ideas Can Change The World. – Robin Williams

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

15. Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one’s ideas, to take a calculated risk – and to act. – Andre Malraux

14. An idea not coupled with action will never get any bigger than the brain cell it occupied. – Arnold H. Glasgow

13. All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea. – Napoleon Hill

12. Get your ideas on paper and study them. Do not let them go to waste! – Les Brown

11. If at first, the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it. – Albert Einstein

10. If an idea isn’t exciting, you shouldn’t do it. – Ray Bradbury

#9 – 1. Ideas Quotes

9. Don’t worry about people stealing an idea. If it’s original, you will have to ram it down their throats. – Howard Aiken

8. Our duty is to encourage every one in his struggle to live up to his own highest idea, and strive at the same time to make the ideal as near as possible to the Truth. – Swami Vivekananda

7. Ideas are refined and multiplied in the commerce of minds. In their splendor, images effect a very simple communion of souls. – Gaston Bachelard

6. You can have brilliant ideas, but if you can’t get them across, your ideas won’t get you anywhere. – Lee Iacocca

5. Eureka! I’ve got it. – Archimedes

4. You have to have an idea of what you are going to do, but it should be a vague idea. – Pablo Picasso

3. Nothing is more dangerous than an idea when it is the only one you have. – Emile Chartier

2. An idea that is developed and put into action is more important than an idea that exists only as an idea. – Buddha

1. The way to get good ideas is to get lots of ideas and throw the bad ones away. – Linus Pauling

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