Ideas

"The ideas that have lighted my way have been kindness, beauty, and truth." ~ Albert Einstein

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 is a book. If you don't like their rules, whose would you use? ~ Dale Carnegie

A man paints with his brains and not with his hands. Michelangelo

The man with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds. ~ Mark Twain

The idea, which constitutes the actual being of the human mind, is not simple, but compounded of a great number of ideas.~ Benedict De Spinoza

The idea that is not dangerous is not worthy of being called an idea at all. ~ Elbert G. Hubbard

There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time has come. ~ Victor Hugo

We know that the nature of genius is to provide idiots with ideas twenty years later. ~ Louis Aragon

An idea is a feat of association. ~ Robert Frost

This happens to me: I have this great idea and then I make the mistake of telling someone else. ~ Scott Adams

If you want to get across an idea, wrap it up in a person. ~ Ralph Bunche

The best ideas come from the field, dealing directly with customers. ~ Andrew Taylor, IBD, 3/2/04

A lot of people have dreams and never do anything about them. When you have ideas and dreams, you do something about it. ~ Paul Newman

"An idea is salvation by imagination." ~ Frank Lloyd Wright

The way to get good ideas is to get lots of ideas and throw the bad ones away. ~ Linus Pauling

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

When the lay public rallies round to an idea that is denounced by distinguished by elderly scientists and supports the idea with great fervor and emotion; the distinguished but elderly scientists are then, after all, right. ~ Isaac Asimov

A person who can create ideas worthy of note is a person who has learned much from others. ~ Konosuke Matsushita

A thought is an idea in transit. ~ Pythagoras

Get a good idea and stay with it. Dog it, and work at it until it's done right. ~ Walt Disney

An idea is salvation by imagination. ~ Frank Lloyd Wright

An ideaís worth is directly proportional to the opposition created. ~ Robert Townsend

Ideas are the roots of creation. ~ Ernest Dimnet

You do not know what is in you -- an inexhaustible fountain of ideas. ~ Brenda Ueland

The operative assumption today is that someone, somewhere, has a better idea; and the operative compulsion is to find out who has that better idea, learn it, and put it into action--fast. ~ Jack Welch, IBD, 1/14/04

A mediocre idea that generates enthusiasm will go further than a great idea that inspires no one. ~ Mary Kay Ash

"Do not covet your ideas. Give away everything you know, and more will come back to you." ~ Paul Arden, It's Not How Good You Are

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

If you do not express your own original ideas, if you do not listen to your own being, you will have betrayed yourself. Also you will have betrayed our community in failing to make your contribution to the whole. ~ Rollo May, Courage to Create

Ideas are a dime a dozen. People who implement them are priceless. ~ Mary Kay Ash

We weren't forced to follow the old ideas. ~ J. Georg Bednorz

The man with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds. ~ Mark Twain

Everything of mine is permeated with my love of ideas--both big and small. It doesn't matter what it is, as long as it grabs me and holds me, facinates me. And then I'll run out and something about it... I write for fun. ~ Ray Bradbury

If it's a good idea; go ahead and do it. It is much easier to apologize than it is to get permission. ~ Grace Hopper

Men often oppose a thing merely because they have had no agency in planning it or because it may have been planned by those whom they dislike. ~ Alexander Hamilton

No matter how good an idea sounds, test it first. ~ Henry Bloch

A single idea, if it's right, saves us the labor of an infinity of experience. ~ Jacques Maritain

What you need is an idea. ~ William Lear, Stormy Genius

Most "original" ideas aren't completely original, but instead are the result of two basic methods for generating ideas: problems in search of solutions and solutions in search of problems. ~Baryy Nalebuff/Ian Ayres