Ideas Quotes and Sayings


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

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

Every new idea is an impossibility until it is born.
Ron Brown

My ideas usually come not at my desk writing but in the midst of living.
Anais Nin

One’s mind once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

Adults are always asking little kids what they want to be when they grow up because they’re looking for ideas.
Paula Poundstone

It is better to entertain an idea than to take it home to live with you for the rest of your life.
Randall Jarrell

Many great ideas go unexecuted, and many great executioners are without ideas. One without the other is worthless.
Tim Blixseth

Good ideas need good strategy to realize their potential.
Anonymous

Ideas are the factors that lift civilization. They create revolutions. There is more dynamite in an idea than in many bombs.
John H. Vincent

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

You can kill a man but you can’t kill an idea.
Medgar Evers

Everyone is in love with his own ideas.
Carl Gustav Jung

If a man had as many ideas during the day as he does when he has insomnia, he’d make a fortune.
Griff Niblack

Ideas must work through the brains and the arms of good and brave men, or they are no better than dreams.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

All good ideas arrive by chance.
Max Ernst

Ideas won’t work unless you do.
Anonymous

I know quite certainly that I myself have no special talent; curiosity, obsession and dogged endurance, combined with self-criticism, have brought me to my ideas.
Albert Einstein

A new and valid idea is worth more than a regiment and fewer men can furnish the former than command the latter.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

A half-baked idea is okay as long as it’s in the oven.
Anonymous

Ideas can no more flow backward than can a river.
Victor Hugo

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

People have ideas all the time. I’ve had millions of them. The hard part isn’t having the idea, it’s making it work.
Max Markson

The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it.
P. B. Medawar

Ideas are the roots of creation.
Ernest Dimnet

An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come.
Victor Hugo

No army can withstand the strength of an idea whose time has come.
Victor Hugo

One can resist the invasion of an army but one cannot resist the invasion of ideas.
Victor Hugo

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

You don’t make progress by standing on the sidelines, whimpering and complaining. You make progress by implementing ideas.
Shirley Hufsteddler

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