Monday 13 May 2019

Ideas - Quotes

New ideas can be good and bad, just the same as old ones. - Franklin D. Roosevelt

No idea is so outlandish that it should not be considered with a searching but at the same time a steady eye. - Winston Churchill

Nobody ever arrives at a very big idea through a conscious, rational thought process. It comes from your unconscious. - David Ogilvy

One who accepts the general ideas of his time gets along smoothest, but he does the least for progress. - Lewis F. Korns

Our ancestors who changed the world did so through new ideas which came to them as they acted. - Raymond Charles Barker

Our heritage and ideals, our code and standards – the things we live by and teach our children – are preserved or diminished by how freely we exchange ideas and feelings. - Walt Disney

Our ideas ... must first acquire a certain strength, before we can proceed efficiently to act upon them. They have their periods of immaturity and maturity. First comes the germ of the idea; then its growth; then an enlargement of that growth; then an expansion of that enlargement; until finally the idea takes its ultimate form as a picture, a book, or a revolution. - Christian Nestell Bovee

People don't realize how much they are in the grip of ideas. We live among ideas much more than we live in nature. - Saul Bellow

People find ideas a bore because they do not distinguish between live ones and stuffed ones on a shelf. - Ezra Pound

People must know that their ideas will be listened to and, if they have merit, acted upon. If they do, it is possible to mobilize individual creativity on a very broad scale. - James Champy

Regarded in isolation, an idea may be quite insignificant, and venturesome in the extreme, but it may acquire importance from an idea which follows it; perhaps, in a certain collocation with other ideas, which may seem equally absurd, it may be capable of furnishing a very serviceable link. - Friedrich von Schiller

Reverie is when ideas float in our mind without reflection or regard of the understanding. - John Locke

Speculation and the exploration of ideas beyond what we know with certainty are what lead to progress. - Lisa Randall

Take in the ideas of the day, drain off those of yesterday. - Edward Bulwer-Lytton

Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life – think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success. - Swami Vivekananda

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