Ideas Quotes and Sayings - Page 14
The image is more than an idea. It is a vortex or cluster of fused ideas and is endowed with energy.
Ezra Pound
When the rich think about the poor, they have poor ideas.
Evita Peron
You can dramatize your ideas in business or in any other aspect of your life. It’s easy.
Dale Carnegie
The key to every man is his thought. Sturdy and defying though he look, he has a helm which he obeys, which is the idea after which all his facts are classified. He can only be reformed by showing him a new idea which commands his own.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Reverie is when ideas float in our mind without reflection or regard of the understanding.
John Locke
The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.
F Scott Fitzgerald
It hinders the creative work of the mind if the intellect examines too closely the ideas as they pour in.
Friedrich Schiller
Test ideas in the marketplace. You learn from hearing a range of perspectives. Consultation helps engender the support decisions need to be successfully implemented.
Donald Rumsfeld
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.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Look at the product pipeline, look at the fantastic financial results we’ve had for the last five years. You only get that kind of performance on the innovation side, on the financial side, if you’re really listening and reacting to the best ideas of the people we have.
Steve Ballmer
Creative ideas flourish best in a shop which preserves some spirit of fun. Nobody is in business for fun, but that does not mean there cannot be fun in business.
Leo Burnett
There’s lots of stocks out there and all you need is a few of ‘em. That’s been my philosophy.
Peter Lynch
Writing is no trouble: you just jot down ideas as they occur to you. The jotting is simplicity itself – it is the occurring which is difficult.
Stephen Leacock
Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward. They may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
When I am traveling in a carriage, or walking after a good meal, or during the night when I cannot sleep; it is on such occasions that ideas flow best and most abundantly.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Society goes on and on and on. It is the same with ideas.
Ramsey MacDonald
I always went into an area that was in last place, with a philosophy, ‘You can’t fall off the floor.’ And I was lucky, was at the right time and the right place, with the right ideas, and each one of these areas became number one.
Michael Eisner
History is full of people who went to prison or were burned at the stake for proclaiming their ideas. Society has always defended itself.
Naguib Mahfouz
I believe in general in a dualism between facts and the ideas of those facts in human heads.
George Santayana
The kind of man who wants government to adopt and enforce his ideas is always the kind of man whose ideas are idiotic.
Henry Louis Mencken
Lots of people know a good thing the minute the other fellow sees it first.
Job E. Hodges
The greatest achievements of the human mind are generally received with distrust.
Arthur Schopenhauer
It isn’t easy for an idea to squeeze itself into a head filled with prejudice.
Anonymous
In science the important thing is to modify and change one’s ideas as science advances.
Herbert Spencer
Journalist: a person without any ideas but with an ability to express them; a writer whose skill is improved by a deadline: the more time he has, the worse he writes.
Karl Kraus
A pile of rocks ceases to be a rock when somebody contemplates it with the idea of a cathedral in mind.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
So long as new ideas are created, sales will continue to reach new highs.
Dorothea Brande
Our lack of compassion stems from our inability to see deeply into the nature of things.
Lama Surya Das
Our world has changed over the years because new ideas were acted upon. People may not have had all the answers, but as they began to take action, the answers became clear!
Catherine Pulsifer
I tell you that as long as I can conceive something better than myself I cannot be easy unless I am striving to bring it into existence or clearing the way for it.
George Bernard Shaw
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