Welcome to our collection of Great Ideas Quotes, where we celebrate the power of human creativity, innovation, and inspiration. Throughout history, great ideas have sparked revolutions, built empires, and shaped the course of civilization. From the brilliant insights of philosophers and scientists to the visionary dreams of artists and inventors, the world has been transformed time and again by the sheer force of a single, profound idea.
In this curated selection of quotes, we delve into the minds of some of the most influential thinkers and creators who have dared to challenge the status quo and push the boundaries of what is possible. Their words offer wisdom, encouragement, and a glimpse into the creative process that drives change and progress. Whether you’re seeking motivation for your own endeavors or simply appreciate the beauty of eloquent expression, you’ll find inspiration aplenty in the profound musings of these great minds.
There are a lot of people that have great ideas that want to create disruptive companies that change the world but everybody doesn’t have the skills to be able to do that. Chamillionaire
I call it a process of elimination. You’re nurturing ideas, and that takes time. What happens is there’s so many, what I say, ‘great ideas.’ What you have to do is try to consolidate them and put them into one song, and then your song becomes eight minutes long. Robert Trujillo
I think bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies are great ideas. They should be allowed to be traded freely and used freely to find their appropriate role in the economy. Thomas Peterffy
Architecture has recorded the great ideas of the human race. Not only every religious symbol, but every human thought has its page in that vast book. Victor Hugo
Here’s a simple truth: When you surround a good idea with brilliant people, it changes. No matter how much you plan, great ideas have a mind of their own. Marc Randolph
From the political angle, I’m trying to be apolitical if you will. I mean people say, ‘Are you a red state or blue state?’, I say, ‘I’m purple.’ I think there are great ideas on both sides of the aisle and neither side has cornered the market. Brad Thor
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. Jena Malone
The great ideas start flowing when you stop thinking about the obvious way of doing it. Phil Lord
Great ideas have no attachment to either money or class. Ian Schrager
I’ve always had great ideas. Riff Raff
I have great ideas, but the follow through is always really difficult for me. As my kid gets a little bit older, if I feel like I have a little bit more time on my hands, I’d like to get more into developing ideas and writing things. Busy Philipps
Not every innovation in transportation is going to come from government or even a large enterprise. There are smart people out there with tools and skills to come up with great ideas. Anthony Foxx
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 a beautiful one. Graham Linehan
My entire career has been built on the understanding that I am not only not the smartest person in the room, I am definitely not the smartest person in the world. And I am instead going to try to create as many opportunities to connect those great ideas and help them be great. Alexis Ohanian
A soul preoccupied with great ideas best performs small duties. Harriet Martineau
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 kicks you into hyperspace in terms of brain function. Peter Gabriel
A soul occupied with great ideas performs small duties. Harriet Martineau
If you have a great day at work and you’ve been hit with all these great ideas and there’s a lot of excitement on your team, your mind doesn’t turn off. For years I’ve kept a pad of paper and pen by me at night, because things just occur to you. Anne Sweeney
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. Erik Hersman
Ideas must be put to the test. That’s why we make things, otherwise they would be no more than ideas. There is often a huge difference between an idea and its realisation. I’ve had what I thought were great ideas that just didn’t work. Andy Goldsworthy
I don’t journal to ‘be productive.’ I don’t do it to find great ideas or to put down prose I can later publish. The pages aren’t intended for anyone but me. It’s the most cost-effective therapy I’ve ever found. Tim Ferriss
I’d listened to my colleagues in the teachers’ lunchroom. I could tell they were passionate, fired-up people who had great ideas for strategies and projects to help kids learn better. They just didn’t have the resources. I was frustrated, but I also knew it was a frustration felt by teachers all over the city. Charles Best
In life, a lot of great ideas sound insane or absurd at first. Nathan Fielder
Research your idea. See if there’s a demand. A lot of people have great ideas, but they don’t know if there’s a need for it. You also have to research your competition. Magic Johnson
I’m a winner. I love to build. I’ve got great ideas. I’ve got the passion. I’m very diligent, and if given a chance I’ll work my rear end off to be a success. Sol Campbell
You can be a great researcher, and you can think you have great ideas, but until you’re forced to talk to a potential customer, you never really know. Dan Lipinski
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. Kris Jenner
Anyone can dream up great ideas, but an idea is nothing until it’s realized, be it as a website, a physical product, an app, or a user interface. Jens Martin Skibsted
Dad has great ideas and I admire him as a politician. Akshara Haasan
People go to their jobs and hate it every day, but they have great ideas. Put that same time and effort into something you love – it really starts with being honest with yourself. Karen Civil
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. John Bonham
A lot of us who are creative and have all these great ideas just don’t have the money to do it. Kerby Jean-Raymond
Being on a successful show is kind of like being a sea turtle. Every year, sea turtles lay hundreds and hundreds of eggs, but only a few manage to survive and mature. It’s the same with TV pilots. There are so many great ideas, but for whatever reason only the lucky ones get picked up. Keiko Agena
You can have great ideas, and you can have all the right policy goals. But unless you’re expanding who is included in the political process, you won’t connect the two. Michelle Wu
I don’t think anyone thought showbiz people know anything. I would suggest interview subjects, were told they weren’t such great ideas, and then they would be assigned to somebody else. I wasn’t given anything to do. I felt like the highest-paid dress extra in the world. Mariette Hartley
A product can live on one great idea. An interior needs 1,000 great ideas to really live, which makes interior design a whole orchestration of this art of juxtaposition, placement, and combination. Marcel Wanders
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.’ Steph McGovern
So many great ideas come out of a misunderstanding. Ryan Fleck
The cool thing about G.O.O.D. Music is it’s a bunch of great ideas, and I’m one of those ideas. Mannie Fresh
I love working with Darren Lynn Bousman. He is such a cool director with really great ideas. Alexa Vega
I think students should know something about religion as a historical phenomenon, in the same way that they should know something about socialism and humanism and the other great ideas that have shaped political philosophies and therefore the course of human events. Steven Pinker
If you want to do this, you’ve got to last. You’ve got to be well enough to carry your ideas. I’m not saying I’ve got great ideas, but if I do I need to be able to deliver them. Aldous Harding
You ask me if I keep a notebook to record my great ideas. I’ve only ever had one. Albert Einstein
But, you always have to listen to everyone, because I’m not always right and other people have great ideas, too. I think that makes great moviemaking. Baran bo Odar
Style and Structure are the essence of a book; great ideas are hogwash. Vladimir Nabokov
I’m of the mindset that most people who have kids are, which is, ‘Hey, I want another me. I like me. I’m pretty cool, and I’ve got really great ideas, and the way I think is the right way to think. Let’s put another one of me out there.’ So I’ll have kids one day. David Cross
Great ideas are very much ‘of the moment,’ and endlessly mulling them over just takes up too much of your brain space and might block your next great idea. Act on it, give it away, or move on. Michael Bastian
The best thing we’ve learned is when you are attempting to write a full song, write a full song that day. When we first started, we would have great ideas, but there’s something about a moment and a vibe that’s being created in time that when you return to it, it sometimes works, and it sometimes doesn’t. Jillian Hervey
I don’t love great ideas. I love the little human being. Svetlana Alexievich
With great ideas come great changes. Bitcoin’s that. Cameron Winklevoss
I want to work with Will Ferrell. I want to do, like, an action-comedy with him. How do I get the project for that? It’s killing me. I’ve got all these great ideas, and the hardest thing is getting the material, the screenplay, you know. Jason Statham
My creative side is identifying all these great entrepreneurial creative people that come up with great ideas, whether they are in fashion or technology or a new tool to improve ourselves. Carmen Busquets
It is the power of words and books – explaining and dramatizing great ideas and articulating high ideals – that is the greatest weapon in the missionary’s arsenal. John C. Bogle
I am convinced that great ideas that are powerfully presented can change a mind in five minutes. Dennis Prager
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. Elizabeth Stuart Phelps
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 equal to their eternal task: that of drawing the age in advance. Ellen Key
Universities think people come up with great ideas by closing the door. The academic tenure process, where you have to publish to journals which are very narrow, stands in the way of great research. Clayton M. Christensen
The money to fund great things and innovations and programs is gone in our lifetime; it’s all gone to debt. So we won’t be able to solve global warming or have the transportation that we needed for the 21st century. We should be supporting people with great ideas, but it’s gone, and now it’s gotta be paid back with interest to banks in China. Michael Moore
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. Josh Kopelman
In music, which was my world before, you’ve got thousands and thousands of years of great ideas that have already been thought of. But the internet is basically 20 years old. So you can be way stupider and still have world-changing ideas. Andrew Mason
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. Josiah Strong
I’m biased, but I see people who have great ideas and are working on things that could be successful, but they give up. Justin Kan
History is full of people with great ideas, but leaders also need to ensure their visions become reality. Seth Moulton
Great ideas originate in the muscles. Thomas A. Edison
You really want a company that’s full of people from all these different backgrounds and then allow them to be creative as possible, come together, and come up with great ideas. Tobias Lutke
