Ideas - Quotes

The air is full of ideas. They are knocking you in the head all the time. You only have to know what you want, then forget it and go about your business. Suddenly the idea will come through. It was there all the time. - Henry Ford

The biggest people with the biggest ideas can be shot down by the smallest people with the smallest minds. - John C. Maxwell

The critical ingredient is getting off your rear end and doing something. It’s as simple as that. A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. - Nolan Bushnell

The idea enters the brain from the outside. It rearranges the furniture to make it more to its liking. It finds other Ideas already in residence, and picks fights or forms alliances. The alliances build new structures, to defend themselves against intruders. And then, whenever the opportunity arises, the Idea sends out its shock troops in search of new brains to infect. The successful Idea travels from mind to mind, claiming new territory, mutating as it goes. It's a jungle out there ... many ideas are lost. Only the strongest survive. - Bernard Beckett

The ideas of things precede and lead to their creation. - Christian Nestell Bovee

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

The mind likes a strange idea as little as the body likes a strange protein and resists it with similar energy. It would not perhaps be too fanciful to say that a new idea is the most quickly acting antigen known to science. It we watch ourselves honestly, we shall often find that we have begun to argue against a new idea even before it has been completely stated. - Wilfred Trotter

The person who is capable of producing a large number of ideas per unit of time, other things being equal, has a greater chance of having significant ideas. - J. P. Guilford

The power of a bold idea uttered publicly in defiance of dominant opinion cannot be easily measured. Those special people who speak out in such a way as to shake up not only the self-assurance of their enemies, but the complacency of their friends, are precious catalysts for change. - Howard Zinn

The typical eye sees the ten per cent bad of an idea and overlooks the ninety per cent good. - Charles F. Kettering

The whole business starts with ideas, and we’re convinced that ideas come out of an environment of supportive conflict, which is synonymous with appropriate friction. - Michael Eisner