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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.
- Baruch, Bernard M.
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Best Quotes about Ideas

1.
Ideas are powerful things, requiring not a studious contemplation but an action, even if it is only an inner action. Their acquisition obligates each man in some way to change his life, even if it is only his inner life. They demand to be stood for. They dictate where a man must concentrate his vision. They determine his moral and intellectual priorities. They provide him with allies and make him enemies. In short, ideas impose an interest in their ultimate fate which goes far beyond the realm of the merely reasonable.
Decter, Midge

2.
They come into being not through demonstration but through revelation, through the medium of powerful personalities.
Einstein, Albert

3.
A powerful idea communicates some of its strength to him who challenges it.
Proust, Marcel

4.
In Texas, years ago, almost all of the oil came from surface operations. Then someone got the idea that there were greater sources of supply deeper down. A well was drilled five thousand feet deep. The result? A gusher. Too many of us operate on the surface. We never go deep enough to find supernatural resources. The result is, we never operate at our best. More time and investment is involved to go deep but a gusher will pay off.
Montapert, Alfred A.

5.
Nothing is more dangerous than an idea, when you only have one.
Chartier, Alain

6.
An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come.
Victor Hugo

7.
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

8.
Ideas are fatal to caste.
Forster, Edward M.

9.
Every new idea is an impossibility until it is born.
Brown, Ron

10.
I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
John Cage

11.
If you want to kill any idea in the world today, get a committee working on it.
Kettering, Charles F.

12.
Ideas that enter the mind under fire remain there securely and for ever.
Trotsky, Leon

13.
The ideas I stand for are not mine. I borrowed them from Socrates. I swiped them from Chesterfield. I stole them from Jesus. And I put them in a book. If you don't like their rules, whose would you use?
Carnegie, Dale

14.
People find ideas a bore because they do not distinguish between live ones and stuffed ones on a shelf.
Pound, Ezra

15.
An idea is not responsible for the people who believe in it.
Marquis, Don

16.
The greatest achievements of the human mind are generally received with distrust.
Schopenhauer, Arthur

17.
Whenever I hear people talking about liberal ideas, I am always astounded that men should love to fool themselves with empty sounds. An idea should never be liberal; it must be vigorous, positive, and without loose ends so that it may fulfill its divine mission and be productive. The proper place for liberality is in the realm of the emotions.
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

18.
Labor gives birth to ideas.
Rohn, Jim

19.
Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

20.
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, SĀ°ren

21.
What you need is an idea.
Lear, William P.

22.
Harold, like the rest of us, had many impressions which saved him the trouble of distinct ideas.
Eliot, George

23.
Ideas lose themselves as quickly as quail, and one must wing them the minute they rise out of the grass, or they are gone.
Kennedy, Thomas F.

24.
Get your ideas on paper and study them. Do not let them go to waste!
Brown, Les

25.
Everything begins with an idea.
Nightingale, Earl

26.
Brain cells create ideas. Stress kills brain cells. Stress is not a good idea.
Saunders, Richard

27.
Man's mind, stretched by a new idea, never goes back to its original dimensions.
Holmes, Oliver Wendell

28.
Many ideas are good for a limited time -- not forever.
Townsend, Robert

29.
Don't worry about people stealing an idea. If it's original, you will have to ram it down their throats.
Howard Aiken

30.
If you have the same ideas as everybody else but have them one week earlier than everyone else then you will be hailed as a visionary. But if you have them five years earlier you will be named a lunatic.
Jones, Barry

31.
The ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they are right and when they are wrong, are more powerful than is commonly understood. Indeed the world is ruled by little else. Practical men, who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influence, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist.
Keynes, John Maynard

32.
When an idea reaches critical mass there is no stopping the shift its presence will induce.
Williamson, Marianne

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

34.
There is no prosperity, trade, art, city, or great material wealth of any kind, but if you trace it home, you will find it rooted in a thought of some individual man. --
Emerson, Ralph Waldo

35.
Greater than the tread of mighty armies is an idea whose time has come.
Hugo, Victor

36.
There is no adequate defense, except stupidity, against the impact of a new idea.
Bridgman, P. W.

37.
The difference between people and ideas is... only superficial.
Rorty, Richard

38.
Never hesitate to steal a good idea.
Neuharth, Al

39.
This is my answer to the gap between ideas and action - I will write it out.
Hortense Calisher

40.
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.
Bachelard, Gaston

41.
Ideas are the roots of creation.
Dimnet, Ernest

42.
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.
Baruch, Bernard M.

43.
Ideas too are a life and a world.
Lichtenberg, Georg C.

44.
The vitality of thought is in adventure. Ideas won't keep. Something must be done about them.
Alfred North Whitehead

45.
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

46.
It first appeared like a crazy idea. It turned out he had a great idea.
Munro, J. Richard

47.
A mind once stretched by a new idea never regains its original dimensions.
Holmes, Oliver Wendell

48.
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

49.
Great ideas originate in the muscles.
Edison, Thomas A.

50.
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


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