Ideas Quotes

Yet he refused to be depressed. Instead, Morrie had become a lightning rod of ideas.

~ Mitch Albom

No words are too good for the cutting-room floor, no idea so fine that it cannot be phrased more succinctly.

~ Merilyn Simonds

Si l'on n'est plus que mille, eh bien, j'en suis ! Si mêmeIls ne sont plus que cent, je brave encor Sylla ;S'il en demeure dix, je serai le dixième ;Et s'il n'en reste qu'un, je serai celui-là !(If we're just a thousand, then, here I am! Even ifThey're just a hundred, still I face Sylla;If ten still stand, I'll be the tenth;And if there is only one left, I'll be this one!)

~ Victor Hugo

[I]t was really only in the generation or two before hers that the idea had started to traverse the spectrum of likelihood in the popular imagination, beginning at unthinkable, progressing to absurd, then going from possible but unlikely to probable and likely, before eventually arriving – round about the time of her birth – at seemingly inevitable.

~ Iain M. Banks

An overly complex explanation began with an unsophisticated assumption.

~ R.a.delmonico

Our mind is a wonderful place, people, aspirations, desires & things can walk-in any time, but it takes longer time for ideas to enter, due to the effort & change required to make–up our mind about not only allowing the ideas in our mind but also implementing it.

~ Shahenshahhk

Please, sir.” Tisarwat seemed not to have heard either of them. “We can’t leave things the way they are, and I have an idea.” That got the translator’s full attention. She looked up from the game, frowned intently at Tisarwat. “What’s it like? Does it hurt?” Tisarwat only blinked at her. “Sometimes I think I might like to get an idea, but then it occurs to me that it’s exactly the sort of thing Dlique would do.

~ Ann Leckie

I love the caraway seeds in the classic rye bread, but I wonder if the rich dough might not also hold up to other flavors. I jot down some notes. Aniseed. Fennel seed. Orange zest. Golden raisins. Coarse salt? Maybe if Herman doesn't come down when I am working on the dough, I can use a small batch for a little experiment. I'm thinking rolls, not loaves. The kind of rolls you want to smear with cold sweet butter at dinner, or split and toast and spread with cream cheese for breakfast. Savory and sweet. Maybe semolina on the bottom instead of the coarser cornmeal we use for the regular rye loaves.

~ Stacey Ballis

Your competitor sees innovation as an opportunity not an inconvenience

~ Colin Myles

It's better to develop hobbies and interests than to have ideas about things.

~ Marty Rubin

It sounds like a terrible idea,” said Friday. “But that doesn’t mean it won’t work.

~ R.a. Spratt

An idea is a mental spark, a mindset is a mental inferno

~ Danny Dover

The idea to go West just fell into my lap from the sky. Go west, young man. That’s how the best ideas happen. Just out of nowhere. When you’re not even thinking. Like they’ve been created for you and you just have to reach out and grab them before someone else does.

~ Shannon Mullen

I wouldn't eat too many of those [half-baked ideas] if I were you. They may look good, but you can get terribly sick of them.-Tock

~ Norton Juster

When facing society, the man most concerned, the man who is to do the most and contribute the oat, has the least say. It's taken for granted that he has no voice and the reasons he could offer are rejected in advance as prejudiced -- since no speech is ever considered, but only the speaker. It's so much easier to pass judgement on a man than on an idea. Though how in the hell one passes judgement on a man without considering the content of his brain is more than I'll ever understand.

~ Ayn Rand

I failed, he said, I got talking my ideas. It's my greatest failing.

~ Walter Van Tilburg Clark

Patriots must have the ideas and the tools so that we can recruit, sow the seeds of doubt, and take the fight to the enemy's safe place.

~ Mike Klepper

Topica from Afar discusses many topics and ideas. It brings the far ranging to the here and now and it is meant to enlighten and teach those whose minds are open to endless possibilities.Being written as you read.

~ Anthony T. Hincks

Your ideas have legs and just as they run through your head, they could be running through someone else's head and it's just a matter of who gets to the finish line first. Nothing is new under the sun so act on your ideas.

~ Sanjo Jendayi

Ideas tyrannize the man who has but few.

~ Nicolás Gómez Dávila

The Brotherhood cannot be wiped out because it is not an organization in the ordinary sense. Nothing holds it together except an idea which is indestructible.

~ George Orwell

Don’t wait for being completely ready for the plans and ideas you may have in mind. Take action now and along the way you will learn and become ready.

~ Farshad Asl

Build a heterogeneous team to close three gaps in innovation management - idea gaps, collaboration gaps, and implementation gaps

~ Pearl Zhu

The world is better served by syncretic economists and policymakers who can hold multiple ideas in their heads than by ‘one-handed’ economists who promote one big idea regardless of context.

~ Dani Rodrik

Testing trading ideas is like digging for gold or looking for crude oil in deep waters. The more trading ideas you test, the better your chances of finding patterns that can be traded profitably.

~ Henrique M. Simões

The best evidence of unsophisticated ideas is the behavior that follows.

~ R.a.delmonico

Discovery commences with the awareness of anomaly, i.e. with the recognition that nature has somehow violated the paradigm-induced expectations that govern normal science. It then continues with a more or less extended exploration of the area of anomaly. And it closes only when the paradigm theory has been adjusted so that the anomalous has become the expected.

~ Thomas Kuhn

Ideas are like bananas. That bananas grow only in tropical regions doesn't make them any less delicious in Scandinavia.

~ Eric Weiner

One of these days when you are spreading your web of lies and deceit. Your tongue shall turn to ashes in your mouth and after the falling out of your teeth.

~ Crystal Evans

First of all, nothing good ever came from a beanbag chair. Nothing. I am speaking from personal experience.

~ Eric Weiner

The creator of Bambi was secretly writing pornographic novels on the side. This single fact tells you everything you need to know about turn-of-the-century Vienna, and why it was the perfect place for Sigmund Freud and his far-fetched theories about the human psyche.

~ Eric Weiner

Innovative ideas aren't generated in structured, authoritarian environments but in an adaptive culture based on the principles of self-organization and self-discipline.

~ Jim Highsmith

Let the colours of your ideas are red so that all can easily notice them! And what is red? Red is scream, red is power, red is assertion!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

For the record, I blame you for this.”“Me?” huffed Shahin. “This was your idea.”“Well...you should have talked me out of it! You and your brilliant schemes—bah! This particular detail will not go into our report, understand?”“Rest assured, you'll find me silent as the grave on this point.”“And stop using morbid expressions!

~ Jennifer Mckeithen

Novel ideas are unsettling, innovative concepts about important matters in human affairs is disruptive of the internal harmony that people prefer. There is a tendency even for the most logical and classically educated people steeped in rational scholastic traditions to assume that if any new hypothesis were correct, a scholar would already written it in a book.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

At the beginning, I thought the best Islamic work was in Spain - the mosque in Cordoba, the Alhambra in Granada. But as I learned more, my ideas shifted. I traveled to Egypt, and to the Middle East many times.I found the most wonderful examples of Islamic work in Cairo, it turns out. I'd visited mosques there before, but I didn't see them with the same eye as I did this time. They truly said something to me about Islamic architecture.

~ I.m. Pei

My ideas fuck like rabbits.

~ Darnell Lamont Walker

God help those who have the wit to quote themselves, that they may reap the harvest of their ideas.

~ Sstaas

As Vulcan’s troublesome history reveals, no one gives up on a powerful, or a beautiful, or perhaps simply a familiar and useful conception of the world without utter compulsion – and a real alternative.

~ Thomas Levenson

In some respect Journalism is like science, the best ideas were one that survived and strengthened by opposition.

~ Ian Mcewan