Ideas Quotes and Sayings - Page 10
A young man must let his ideas grow, not be continually rooting them up to see how they are getting on
William McFee
It first appeared like a crazy idea. It turned out he had a great idea.
J. Richard Munro
Don’t you have much more faith in ideas that you discover for yourself than in ideas that are handed to you on a silver platter?
Dale Carnegie
Start out with an ideal and end up with a deal.
Karl Albrecht
Ideas that escape are fast and slippery and not likely to be hunted down.
Carrie Latet
To solve a problem or to reach a goal, you don’t need to know all the answers in advance. But you must have a clear idea of the problem or the goal you want to reach.
W. Clement Stone
If you want to kill any idea in the world, get a committee working on it.
Charles F. Kettering
Many ideas are good for a limited time — not forever.
Robert Townsend
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.
Wyndham Lewis
The good ideas will survive.
Quentin Tarantino
Great people talk about ideas, average people talk about things, and small people talk about wine.
Fran Lebowitz
Great people talk about ideas. Small people talk about other people.
Tobias S. Gibson
Never hesitate to steal a good idea.
Al Neuharth
Ideas move fast when their time comes.
Carolyn Heilbrun
Life-transforming ideas have always come to me through books.
Bell hooks
Too many people run out of ideas long before they run out of words.
Anonymous
The ideas dictate everything, you have to be true to that or you’re dead.
David Lynch
Listen, the next revolution is gonna be a revolution of ideas.
Bill Hicks
We have some great ideas, but most of ‘em come too late to do us any good.
Will Rogers
Our ideas are for the most part like bad sixpences, and we spend our lives trying to pass them on one another.
Samuel Butler
The soft-minded man always fears change. He feels security in the status quo, and he has an almost morbid fear of the new. For him, the greatest pain is the pain of a new idea.
Martin Luther King
I welcome and seek your ideas, but do not bring me small ideas; bring me big ideas to match our future.
Arnold Schwarzenegger
The moment a man begins to talk about technique that’s proof that he is fresh out of ideas.
Raymond Chandler
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.
Gaston Bachelard
Only the ideas that we really live have any value.
Hermann Hesse
If you write, one of the questions you’re always trying to answer is, Where do you get your ideas? And, if you write, you know how pointless a question this is and how difficult it is to answer.
Lynn Abbey
Those who are fired with an enthusiastic idea and who allow it to take hold and dominate their thoughts find that new worlds open for them. As long as enthusiasm holds out, so will new opportunities.
Norman Vincent Peale
Our ideas must be as broad as Nature if they are to interpret Nature.
Arthur Conan Doyle
Style and Structure are the essence of a book; great ideas are hogwash.
Vladimir Nabokov
The purpose of writing is to inflate weak ideas, obscure pure reasoning, and inhibit clarity. With a little practice, writing can be an intimidating and impenetrable fog!
Bill Watterson
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