Quotes about ideas

"Good ideas and innovations must be driven into existence by courageous patience."

Rickover, Hyman G. on ideas   

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

Rivarol, Antoine on ideas   

"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 on ideas   

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

Rohn, Jim on ideas
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"Labor gives birth to ideas."

Rohn, Jim on ideas   

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

Rorty, Richard on ideas   

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

Rostand, Jean on ideas
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"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 on ideas
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"Brain cells create ideas. Stress kills brain cells. Stress is not a good idea."

Saunders, Richard on ideas
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"The greatest achievements of the human mind are generally received with distrust."

Schopenhauer, Arthur on ideas   

"Our greatest lack is not money for any undertaking, but rather ideas, If the ideas are good, cash will somehow flow to where it is needed."

Schuller, Robert H. on ideas   

"I tell you that as long as I can conceive something better than myself I cannot be easy unless I am striving to bring it into existence or clearing the way for it."

Shaw, George Bernard on ideas   

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

Simpson, E. L. on ideas   

"There is nothing in the world more powerful than an idea. No weapon can destroy it; no power can conquer it except the power of another idea."

Smith, James R. on ideas   

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

Sutton, Percy on ideas
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"Many ideas are good for a limited time -- not forever."

Townsend, Robert on ideas   

"Ideas that enter the mind under fire remain there securely and for ever."

Trotsky, Leon on ideas   

"A crank is someone with a new idea -- until it catches on."

Twain, Mark on ideas   

"Ideas won't work unless you do."

Unknown, Source on ideas   

"An idea is worth nothing if it has no champion."

Unknown, Source on ideas   

"Too many people run out of ideas long before they run out of words."

Unknown, Source on ideas
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"The world moves, and ideas that were good once are not always good."

Unknown, Source on ideas   

"Some people entertain ideas; others put them to work."

Unknown, Source on ideas   

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

Unknown, Source on ideas   

"It isn't easy for an idea to squeeze itself into a head filled with prejudice."

Unknown, Source on ideas   

"Ideas are the factors that lift civilization. They create revolutions. There is more dynamite in an idea than in many bombs."

Vincent, John H. on ideas   

"The vitality of thought is in adventure. Ideas won't keep. Something must be done about them. When the idea is new, its custodians have fervor, live for it, and if need be, die for it."

Whitehead, Alfred North on ideas   

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

Whitehead, Alfred North on ideas   

"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 on ideas   

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

Williamson, Marianne on ideas   

"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 on ideas   

"An idea discovered is much better possessed."

Young on ideas   

"Ideas have consequences and bad ideas can have lethal consequences."

Weigel, George on ideas   

"If at first an idea doesn't sound absurd, then there is no hope for it."

Albert Einstein on ideas