Quotes
Quotes about Ideas
The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.
The creative person wants to be a know -it -all. He wants to know about all kinds of things: ancient history, nineteenth -century mathematics, current manufacturing techniques, flower arranging, and hog futures. Because he never knows when these ideas might come together to form a new idea. It may happen six minutes later or six months, or six years down the road. But he has faith that it will happen.
I hope if dogs ever take over the world, and they chose a king, they don't just go by size, because I bet there are some Chihuahuas with some good ideas.
But you can catch yourself entertaining habitually certain ideas and setting others aside; and that, I think, is where our personal destinies are largely decided.
Many blunder in business through inability or an unwillingness to adopt new ideas. I have seen many a success turn to failure also, because the thought which should be trained on big things is cluttered up with the burdensome detail of little things.
Dreams are nothing but incoherent ideas, occasioned by partial or imperfect sleep.
College isn't the place to go for ideas. -Hellen Keller.
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.
Men who accomplish great things in the industrial world are the ones who have faith in the money producing power of ideas.
As any action or posture long continued will distort and disfigure the limbs; so the mind likewise is crippled and contracted by perpetual application to the same set of ideas.
Fashion is more usually a gentle progression of revisited ideas.
I believe in a kind of fidelity to your own early ideas; it's a kind of antagonism in me to prevailing fads.
Capitalists are motivated not chiefly by the desire to consume wealth or indulge their appetites, but by the freedom and power to consummate their entrepreneurial ideas.
We don't want to push our ideas on to customers, we simply want to make what they want.
Many of the products which create a modern standard of living are only the physical incorporations of ideas- not only the ideas of an Edison or a Ford but the ideas of innumerable anonymous people who figure out the design of supermarkets, the location of gasoline stations, and the million mundane things on which our material well-being depends. Societies which have more people carrying out physical acts and fewer people supplying ideas do not have higher standards of living. Quite the contrary.
New ideas stir from every corner. The show up disguised innocently as interruptions, contradictions and embarrasing dilemmas. Beware of total strangers and friends alike who shower you with comfortable sameness, and remain open to those who make you uneasy, for they are the true messengers of the future. -Rob Lebow.
What we need is hatred. From it our ideas are born.
It is not the brains that matter most, but that which guides them - the character, the heart, generous qualities, progressive ideas. -Fyodor Dostoyevsky.
People today are still living off the table scraps of the sixties. They are still being passed around - the music and the ideas.
It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world.
You ask me if I keep a notebook to record my great ideas. I've only ever had one.
What we need is hatred. From it our ideas are born.
The best way to have a good idea is to have lots of ideas.
All great ideas are dangerous.
Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats.
