Ideas - Quotes

If those in charge of our society – politicians, corporate executives, and owners of press and television – can dominate our ideas, they will be secure in their power. They will not need soldiers patrolling the streets. We will control ourselves. - Howard Zinn

If you happen to be one of the fretful minority who can do creative work, never force an idea; you’ll abort it if you do. Be patient and you’ll give birth to it when the time is ripe. Learn to wait. - Robert Heinlein

If you believe in an idea, you don’t own you, it owns you. - Raymond Chandler

If you're going to deal in the world of ideas, you have to be, to some extent, a salesman. And you're going to sink or rise according to your ability to be a good salesman of ideas. - Barry Diller

In the same way as the tree bears the same fruit year after year, but each time new fruit, all lastingly valuable ideas in thinking must always be reborn. - Albert Schweitzer

It is better to have enough ideas for some of them to be wrong, than to be always right by having no ideas at all. - Edward de Bono

It is of the nature of idea to be communicated: written, spoken, done. The idea is like grass. It craves light, likes crowds, thrives on crossbreeding, grows better for being stepped on. - Ursula K. le Guin

It is the lone worker who makes the first advance in a subject: the details may be worked out by a team, but the prime idea is due to the enterprise, thought and perception of an individual. - Alexander Fleming

It is impossible for ideas to compete in the marketplace if no forum for their presentation is provided or available. - Thomas Mann

It’s easy to come up with new ideas; the hard part is letting go of what worked for you two years ago, but will soon be out of date. - Roger von Oech

It’s not hard to get the ideas when they come. They just come... it’s painful waiting for them. - Oscar Wilde

I've known people who had fantastic ideas, but who couldn't get the idea off the ground because they approached everything weakly. They thought that their ideas would somehow take off by themselves, or that just coming up with an idea was enough. Let me tell you something – it's not enough. It will never be enough. You have to put the idea into action. If you don't have the motivation and the enthusiasm, your great idea will simply sit on top of your desk or inside your head and go nowhere. - Donald Trump

Make it a point to keep a lookout for novel and interesting ideas that others have used successfully. Your idea has to be original only in its adaptation to the problem you are currently working on. - Thomas Alva Edison

Man’s fear of ideas is probably the greatest dike holding back human knowledge and happiness. - Morris Leopold Ernst

My friend, drop all your preconceived and fixed ideas and be neutral. Do you know why this cup is useful? Because it is empty. - Bruce Lee