Idea Quotes
Nothing is more dangerous than an idea when it is the only one you have. - Emile Chartier
If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange these apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas. - George Bernard Shaw
You'll find boredom where there is the absence of a good idea. - Earl Nightingale
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? - More Dale Carnegie Quotes
The best way to get a good idea is to get a lot of ideas. - Linus Pauling
Ideas can no more flow backward than can a river. - Victor Hugo
Once a new idea springs into existence, it cannot be unthought. There is a sense of immortality in a new idea. - Edward De Bono
An idea not coupled with action will never get any bigger than the brain cell it occupied. - Arnold H. Glasgow
Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than in the one where they sprang up. - Oliver Wendell Holmes
Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into practice with courageous patience. - Admiral Hyman Rickover
If I were required to guess off-hand, and without collusion with higher minds, what is the bottom cause of the amazing material and intellectual advancement of the last fifty years, I should guess that it was the modern-born and previously non-existent disposition on the part of men to believe that a new idea can have value. - More Mark Twain Quotes
Nothing is more dangerous than an idea when it is the only one you have. - Emile Chartier
A half-baked idea is okay as long as it's in the oven. - Unknown
You grow your best thoughts in silence, solitude, and meditation. When you relax and think deeply, you are giving your inmost powers their best opportunity to disclose themselves. - Grenville Kleiser, "Inspiration and Ideals" (1917)
You'll find boredom where there is the absence of a good idea. - Earl Nightingale
Good ideas, like good pickles, are crisp, enduring, and devilishly hard to make. - Rushworth M. Kidder, The Christian Science Monitor
The best way to get a good idea is to get a lot of ideas. - Linus Pauling
An idea whose time has come was waiting there all along. - Carrie Latet
A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor. - Victor Hugo Quote
Ideas lose themselves as quickly as quail, and one must wing them the minute they raise out of the grass - or they are gone. - Thomas Kennedy
Put the argument into a concrete shape, into an image, some hard phrase, round and solid as a ball, which they can see and handle and carry home with them, and the cause is half won. - Ralph Waldo Emerson Quote
Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen. - Anonymous
Ideas can be life-changing. Sometimes all you need to open the door is just one more good idea. - Jim Rohn Quote
I have never had so many good ideas day after day as when I worked in the garden. - John Erskind
If at first, the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it. - Albert Einstein
A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a quip and worried to death by a frown on the right man's brow. - Charles Brower
Everyone who's ever taken a shower has an idea. It's the person who gets out of the shower, dries off and does something about it who makes a difference. - Nolan Bushnell
Society goes on and on and on. It is the same with ideas. - Ramsey MacDonald
What was once thought can never be unthought. - Friedrich Durrenmatt
There is an element of truth in every idea that lasts long enough to be called corny. - Irving Berlin
My ideas usually come not at my desk writing but in the midst of living. - Anais Nin
When you write down your ideas you automatically focus your full attention on them. Few if any of us can write one thought and think another at the same time. Thus a pencil and paper make excellent concentration tools. - Michael Leboeuf
Great ideas often receive violent opposition from mediocre minds. - Albert Einstein
An original idea. That can't be too hard. The library must be full of them. - Stephen Fry
All great ideas are controversial or have been at one time. - Charles Seldes
Night time is really the best time to work. All the ideas are there to be yours because everyone else is asleep. - Catherine O'Hara
Ideas shape the course of history. - John Maynard Keynes
