Ideas Quotes and Sayings

Wit is the sudden marriage of ideas which before their union were not perceived to have any relation.
Mark Twain

As usual the Liberals offer a mixture of sound and original ideas. Unfortunately none of the sound ideas is original and none of the original ideas is sound.
Harold McMillan

When something has to be done, do it! In France we are full of good ideas, but we rarely put them into practice.
Bernard Arnault

Creativity is a great motivator because it makes people interested in what they are doing. Creativity gives hope that there can be a worthwhile idea. Creativity gives the possibility of some sort of achievement to everyone. Creativity makes life more fun and more interesting.
Edward de Bono

I’ll come in with a string of riffs and direct the musical ideas. But you still need a band and their input to make the ideas come alive. You can’t underestimate band chemistry.
Billy Corgan

Little words hurt big ideas.
Howard W. Newton

Long is the road from conception to completion.
Moliere

He was distinguished for ignorance; for he had only one idea, and that was wrong.
Benjamin Disraeli

You do things when the opportunities come along. I’ve had periods in my life when I’ve had a bundle of ideas come along, and I’ve had long dry spells. If I get an idea next week, I’ll do something. If not, I won’t do a damn thing.
Warren Buffett

Our thoughts take the wildest flight: even at the moment when they should arrange themselves in thoughtful order.
Lord Byron

America is an idea, but it’s an idea that brings with it some baggage, like power brings responsibility. It’s an idea that brings with it equality, but equality even though it’s the highest calling, is the hardest to reach. The idea that anything is possible, that’s one of the reasons why I’m a fan of America. It’s like hey, look there’s the moon up there, let’s take a walk on it, bring back a piece of it. That’s the kind of America that I’m a fan of.
Bono

The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.
Abraham Lincoln

We go in there and we work on altering those ideas and in many cases go in different directions.
Les Paul

Well, it’s because I gladly acknowledge some ideas that are part of process theology, but which I think are not tied to all the details of process thought, and are very illuminating and helpful.
John Polkinghorne

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

Every man with an idea has at least two or three followers.
Brooks Atkinson

Examples of selling of ideas are portrayed in consulting or paid advice, as the pricing of intellectual property is market driven.
Chuck Martin

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.
Bob Grinde

A cold in the head causes less suffering than an idea.
Jules Renard

We but half express ourselves, and are ashamed of that divine idea which each of us represents.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

I have been very careful to put forward new ideas - on tackling inequality, extending democratic reform and the green agenda, because I think these are all absolutely fundamental to a successful next period of office for Labour
Peter Hain

Enthusiasm is the yeast that makes your hopes shine to the stars. Enthusiasm is the sparkle in your eyes, the swing in your gait. The grip of your hand, the irresistible surge of will and energy to execute your ideas.
Henry Ford

Who were the fools who spread the story that brute force cannot kill ideas? Nothing is easier. And once they are dead they are no more than corpses.
Simone Weil

For an idea ever to be fashionable is ominous, since it must afterwards be always old-fashioned.
George Santayana

So long as I confine my thoughts to my own ideas divested of words, I do not see how I can be easily mistaken.
George Berkeley

Such as take lodgings in a head that’s to be let unfurnished.
Samuel Butler

The ideas of the great playwrights are almost always larger than the experiences of even the best actors.
Stella Adler

The first people totalitarians destroy or silence are men of ideas and free minds.
Isaiah Berlin

I’m not a sponge exactly, but I find that something I look at is a great opportunity for ideas.
Martha Stewart

We experience problem-solving sessions as war zones, we view competing ideas as enemies, and we use problems as weapons to blame and defeat opposition forces. No wonder we can’t come up with real lasting solutions!
Margaret J. Wheatley