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People find ideas a bore because they do not distinguish between live ones and stuffed ones on a shelf.
- Pound, Ezra
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Best Quotes about Ideas

1.
We like to test things... no matter how good an idea sounds, test it first.
Block, Henry

2.
Good ideas are a dime a dozen, bad ones are free.
Horton, Doug

3.
Good ideas and innovations must be driven into existence by courageous patience.
Rickover, Hyman G.

4.
Ideas that enter the mind under fire remain there securely and for ever.
Trotsky, Leon

5.
Harold, like the rest of us, had many impressions which saved him the trouble of distinct ideas.
Eliot, George

6.
Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.
John Steinbeck

7.
It's a pretty good idea to be of good cheer but not all the time. Just at the most unexpected times.

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

9.
The simple joy of taking an idea into one's own hands and giving it proper form, that's exciting.
Nelson, George

10.
They come into being not through demonstration but through revelation, through the medium of powerful personalities.
Einstein, Albert

11.
A new idea is first condemned as ridiculous and then dismissed as trivial, until finally, it becomes what everybody knows.
James, William

12.
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

13.
Man's mind, stretched by a new idea, never goes back to its original dimensions.
Holmes, Oliver Wendell

14.
You have to hatch ideas -- and then hitch them.
Everson, Ray D.

15.
The most important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them.
Bragg, Sir William

16.
A crank is someone with a new idea -- until it catches on.
Twain, Mark

17.
A good idea plus capable men cannot fail; it is better than money in the bank.
Berry, John

18.
An idea discovered is much better possessed.
Young

19.
Go out and buy yourself a five-cent pencil and a ten-cent notebook and begin to write down some million-dollar ideas for yourself.
Grinde, Bob

20.
Every composer knows the anguish and despair occasioned by forgetting ideas which one had no time to write down.
Hector Berlioz

21.
An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come.
Victor Hugo

22.
A new idea is like a child. It's easier to conceive than to deliver.
Koysis, Ted

23.
Do something. If it doesn't work, do something else. No idea is too crazy.
Jim Hightower

24.
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

25.
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

26.
Ideas are the roots of creation.
Dimnet, Ernest

27.
Man's fear of ideas is probably the greatest dike holding back human knowledge and happiness.
Ernst, Morris L.

28.
The way to combat noxious ideas is with other ideas. The way to combat falsehoods is with truth.
William O. Douglas

29.
A powerful idea communicates some of its strength to him who challenges it.
Proust, Marcel

30.
Ideas not coupled with action never become bigger than the brain cells they occupied.
Glasgow, Arnold H.

31.
Do not follow the ideas of others, but learn to listen to the voice within yourself. Your body and mind will become clear and you will realize the unity of all things.
Dogen

32.
It is ideas, not vested interests, which are dangerous for good or evil.
Keynes, John Maynard

33.
Great people talk about ideas. Small people talk about other people.
Gibson, Tobias S.

34.
The ideas of a time are like the clothes of a season: they are as arbitrary, as much imposed by some superior will which is seldom explicit. They are utilitarian and political, the instruments of smooth-running government.
Lewis, Wyndham

35.
Get your ideas on paper and study them. Do not let them go to waste!
Brown, Les

36.
Getting an idea should be like sitting down on a pin. It should make you jump up and do something.
Simpson, E. L.

37.
There is no adequate defense, except stupidity, against the impact of a new idea.
Bridgman, P. W.

38.
Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

39.
Every revolutionary idea seems to evoke three stages of reaction. They may be summed up by the phrases: (1) It's completely impossible. (2) It's possible, but it's not worth doing. (3) I said it was a good idea all along.
Clarke, Arthur C.

40.
Human life is driven forward by its dim apprehension of notions too general for its existing language.
Whitehead, Alfred North

41.
Ideas are refined and multiplied in the commerce of minds. In their splendor, images effect a very simple communion of souls.
Bachelard, Gaston

42.
Great ideas originate in the muscles.
Edison, Thomas A.

43.
Very simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds
Gourmont, Remy De

44.
Some people entertain ideas; others put them to work.

45.
A handsome parson is fit for nothing but ti put ideas into the young woman's heads.
Judith Brocklehurst

46.
The vitality of thought is in adventure. Ideas won't keep. Something must be done about them.
Alfred North Whitehead

47.
Ideas won't work unless you do.

48.
It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.
Anatole France

49.
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

50.
An idea is the only level which moves the world.
Corey, Arthur F.


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