Ideas Quotes

Let’s end the notion that ideas have no value unless they turn into a business or have some other practical use. Save them all in a beautiful book like Leonardo did. You might want to give them away someday, perhaps to someone who needs an idea. Or your great-great-grandchildren might love knowing what a fascinating mind you had. Or your biographer might be very happy after you’re gone.

~ Barbara Sher

Many great ideas are not unique. They only become unique when the men who have the wherewithal actually to implement them come together.

~ Robin Hobb

Work with all your heart, because - I promise - if you show up for your work day after day after day after day. you just might get lucky enough some random morning to burst into bloom.

~ Elizabeth Gilbert

Innovation is the heart of humanity.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Innovation is about practical creativity - it's about making new ideas useful...

~ Max Mckeown

With wine ideas flow, without ideas wine flows.

~ Michele Jennae

An artist who conforms to conventional ideas is nothing but a mere charlatan.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

Creativity is not intelligence, it is the ability to do what you did not know through the use of what you know.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

Whenever that tiny bulb of revelation flashes over your head, it almost always follows a period of uncertainty. These periods are usually dark and distorted, with nary a sliver of light, yet they serve us because they contribute to understanding.

~ Nichole Beamer

Ideas rarely come out whole. They change as they get brought to life. New constraints appear, new directions suggest themselves, and new influences come to bear.

~ David Duchemin

Sitting to think of what to write will only set your ass on fire, give you headache, twist your face to look stupid, instead, walk around with a blank mind and something from somewhere will fill it up.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

Don't be afraid of silly ideas.

~ Paul Arden

It's not a sign of creativity to have sixty-five ideas for one problem. It's just a waste of energy.

~ Jan Kaplicky

Ideas doesn't make anyone rich, it is what you use it to do that makes you rich.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

The field of scientific abstraction encompasses independent kingdoms of ideas and of experiments and within these, rulers whose fame outlasts the centuries. But they are not the only kings in science. He also is a king who guides the spirit of his contemporaries by knowledge and creative work, by teaching and research in the field of applied science, and who conquers for science provinces which have only been raided by craftsmen.

~ Fritz Haber

It takes courage to be creative. Just as soon as you have an idea, you become a minority of one.

~ E. Paul Torrance

How often have the greatest thoughts and ideas come to light during conversations with the family over the evening dinner?

~ E.a. Bucchianeri

The simple everyday experiences become the doorway to new thoughts and inspirations.

~ E.a. Bucchianeri

Entrepreneurship is when an individual retrieves a red hot idea from the creativity furnace without the constraint of the heat of lean resources, and with each persistent blow of the innovation hammer shapes the still malleable idea against the anvil of passion, vision, insight, strategy, and principles to forge a fitting vessel of a creative concern.

~ Amah Lambert

Today, the world rewards those with creative and intellectual muscles. So, women and skinny men need to shut up and start thinking.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

No original thought still exists. People are original, each one of them. The same ideas that others had before you are waiting for you to bring them back to life in a new way. The part of who you are that is left behind within these old ideas is what makes them original all over again.

~ Ashly Lorenzana

It's difficult to get your creative juices flowing if you're always being practical, following rules, afraid to make mistakes, not looking into outside areas, or under the influence of any of the other mental locks.

~ Roger Von Oech

Creativity and ideas fired between every synapse underneath my skin and I felt radiant from the inside out.

~ Belinda Jeffrey

Ideas define us, our past, our present, and most importantly, our future.

~ P.w. Cross

When certain seeds are planted, they nearly always grow.

~ Stephen King

If you think that your life is amazing, wait till you see what God has lined up for you in the future. But remember, you have to keep pushing forward with bigger goals and ideas.

~ Hafiz

The scientific man does not aim at an immediate result. He does not expect that his advanced ideas will be readily taken up. His work is like that of the planter—for the future. His duty is to lay the foundation for those who are to come, and point the way.

~ Nikola Tesla

Pakistan not only means freedom and independence but the Muslim Ideology which has to be preserved, which has come to us as a precious gift and treasure and which, we hope other will share with us.

~ Muhammad Ali Jinnah

Gods die. And when they truly die they are unmourned and unremembered. Ideas are more difficult to kill than people, but they can be killed, in the end.

~ Neil Gaiman

Apriority creates ambiguities among ideas.

~ Toba Beta

The difficulty does not lie in finding new ideas, but in escaping the long outdated belief in old ones.

~ Jeffrey Fry

Life flows as a whole, both inside and out, but you divide life with your mind, both inside and outside.

~ Roshan Sharma

Can you die for a false idea? Yes. The reason you die is that you believe it’s not a false idea

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

I am a plain person. I have merely spoken out my mind. I do not say you should believe what I have said because it alone is certain. Accept such ideas as can be accepted, with the help of your reason, after a sound inquiry. Reject the rest.

~ Periyar E.v. Ramasamy

If you want God as a tranquilizer, it is okay as an idea, but if you want the Divine to be an awakening process in your life, an idea is not good enough.

~ Sadhguru

Avoid all doubtful ideas and put your mind into the realms of true belief.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

No matter what anybody tells you, words and ideas can change the world

~ Tom Schulman

But if you have big ideas you have to use big words to express them, haven't you?

~ L.m. Montgomery

The term political correctness has always appalled me, reminding me of Orwell's Thought Police and fascist regimes.

~ Helmut Newton

That's how ideas and the institutions they generate come to be in the first place. It is in strings of words that we make ideas. The words, however, can say anything that the language permits, which, in our case, is quite a lot, so a string of words can just as easily express inanities as ideas. When inanities are expressed, we can discover them just by paying attention to the words.

~ Richard Mitchell