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Great Ideas Quotes

These great ideas quotes explore why concepts alone rarely succeed, how the boldest ideas often sound absurd at first, and why nurturing local talent and founders matters.

Every innovation starts as a rough idea before it becomes real Change, and these quotes trace that path from first spark to lasting impact.

Style and Structure are the essence of a book; great ideas are hogwash.

Quotes by Vladimir Nabokov

Young people have so many great ideas so I can't wait to hear what children from around the country have come up with. 'Pocket Money Pitch' will encourage them to believe in themselves and 'have a go.'

Quotes by Steph McGovern

The great ideas start flowing when you stop thinking about the obvious way of doing it.

Quotes by Phil Lord

I've talked to a lot of artists - painters, writers, musicians - many of whom have had great ideas on trains. The only explanation I have is all that stuff is coming at you while you're relaxed, so somehow it...

Quotes by Peter Gabriel

Change Quotes

In life, a lot of great ideas sound insane or absurd at first.

Quotes by Nathan Fielder

There's a lot of people that have great ideas and dreams and whatnot, but unless you're willing to work really, really hard, and work for what you want, it's never going to happen.

Quotes by Kris Jenner

A lot of us who are creative and have all these great ideas just don't have the money to do it.

Quotes by Kerby Jean-Raymond

It may be easily shown, and is of no small significance, that the two great ideas of which the Anglo-Saxon is the exponent are having a fuller development in the United States than in Great Britain.

Quotes by Josiah Strong

I don't think Philadelphia's challenge is in coming up with great ideas or having great founders. I think the real challenge is keeping them here.

Quotes by Josh Kopelman

Creativity Quotes

There was absolutely no intention of splitting up. We had so many great ideas to use on the new album. John Paul Jones was incredible, coming to the studio each day with new instruments to play.

Quotes by John Bonham

I used to want to be a children's writer, because I would have all these great ideas when I was little, and I'd write them and draw them, and turn them into class.

Quotes by Jena Malone

A soul occupied with great ideas performs small duties.

Quotes by Harriet Martineau

A soul preoccupied with great ideas best performs small duties.

Quotes by Harriet Martineau

There are producers, like the late Geoffrey Perkins, who have truly great ideas that will fire up your synapses and show you that handing in your first draft is not the end of a horrible process, but the beginning of...

Quotes by Graham Linehan

Inspiration Quotes

I call it predicament humor. You don't do anything that cuts the star off at the knees or worse. You make him intelligent; you give him great ideas and great things to do.

Quotes by Glen A. Larson

The emergence of a hardware product from an African company marks a phase-change point for tech invention. The BRCK shows that great ideas can come from anywhere, that innovation comes from solving real problems with constrained resources.

Quotes by Erik Hersman

In our office, we have a whiteboard with all of our ideas and things we want to write on it - great ideas we have that we haven't had the time to get around to yet.

Quotes by Erich Hoeber

It is not sufficient for the young to devote their enthusiasm, their courage, their ambition, their self-sacrifice to the great ideas of the time; the young must not only preserve but increase their powers if they are to be really...

Quotes by Ellen Key

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.

Quotes by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps

Possibility Quotes

I am convinced that great ideas that are powerfully presented can change a mind in five minutes.

Quotes by Dennis Prager

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Frequently Asked Questions

What do these quotes say makes an idea great?
They actually push back on the idea that great ideas alone matter - one calls them hogwash next to style and structure, while another says great ideas often sound insane or absurd at first.
Is there a quote about great ideas sounding absurd?
Yes - it makes the point that plenty of genuinely great ideas strike people as crazy or ridiculous when first proposed, suggesting that initial reception is a poor test of an idea's worth.
Do any of these quotes talk about keeping great ideas around?
One does - it says a city's challenge isn't coming up with great ideas or great founders, but keeping them there once they've arrived.
What does the historical quote about great ideas describe?
It refers to two great ideas associated with the Anglo-Saxon tradition that ended up more fully realized on American soil than back in their country of origin, a broader historical observation.
Which related topic pairs well with quotes about great ideas?
The Creativity collection is a natural companion, since these quotes are really about where good ideas come from and what happens to them next.

For more on turning ideas into action, browse our Creativity and Possibility collections.