Ideas Quotes

It's not about ideas. It's about making ideas happen.

~ Scott Belsky

Comments outnumber ideas.

~ Austin Kleon

Yes, books are dangerous. They should be dangerous - they contain ideas.

~ Pete Hautman

Banning books gives us silence when we need speech. It closes our ears when we need to listen. It makes us blind when we need sight.

~ Stephen Chbosky

Having the freedom to read and the freedom to choose is one of the best gifts my parents ever gave me.

~ Judy Blume

There's nothing more exciting than ideas.

~ Susan Cain

Well, the man who first translated the bible into English was burned at the stake, and they've been at it ever since. Must be all that adultery, murder and incest. But not to worry. It's back on the shelves.

~ Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

Truth is a matter of the imagination. The soundest fact may fail or prevail in the style of its telling: like that singular organic jewel of our seas, which grows brighter as one woman wears it and, worn by another, dulls and goes to dust. Facts are no more solid, coherent, round, and real than pearls are.

~ Ursula K. Le Guin

Every man, it seems, interprets the world in the light of his habits and desires

~ Richard Wright

People have some really crazy ideas about love, friends and relationships. They have the absurd belief that their friends, children, family, lovers and companions can make them happy.

~ Bryant Mcgill

A computer cannot manufacture new information. That's the difference between our brain and a computer.

~ Chris Prentiss

We like to take credit when we get a new idea, as if we originated the idea in our brain, but what we actually did was no less extraordinary: we channeled the idea.

~ Chris Prentiss

You use your brain much as you would use a radio crystal, you tune in different frequencies.

~ Chris Prentiss

During intellectual droughts one shower of good ideas can cause a flash-flood to wash away the roads your habits travel.

~ Bryant Mcgill

Only yourself can critizice your ideas for you are the only one who knows where are they coming from and how they were born.

~ Pedro A. Pérez Raymond

problems call for ideas, the bigger the problem, the bigger the idea

~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

The most dangerous ideas are not those that challenge the status quo. The most dangerous ideas are those so embedded in the status quo, so wrapped in a cloud of inevitability, that we forget they are ideas at all.

~ Jacob M. Appel

I think her favorite thing about our . . . collaboration was her actor and musician friends rubbing shoulders with my academic colleagues, she liked the atmosphere of challenge, the way anything that came under discussion could be claimed or rejected by either side. Time and time again the power of an idea or a piece of art was assessed by either its beauty or its technique or its usefulness, and time and time again my wife was surprised by how rarely anything on earth satisfies all three camps.

~ Helen Oyeyemi

Not once not twice but at least a dozen times i have advanced an idea to people who thought i was either dreaming , imagining the impossible or just in over my head. When the birth of a rare idea lives to see the light of day it is astounding . I have some ideas am now advancing and i am watching closely the discomfort change presents. To achieve different results we have to change how we do things , we must slay lunacy

~ Victor Manan Nyambala

FOR BEING A SUCESSFUL PERSON, ONE NEEDS TO HAVE KNOWLEDGE OF DIVERSIFIED FEILDS. IT WILL IMPROVE YOUR THOUGHTS AND GIVES YOU CREATIVE IDEAS. YOUR VISION WILL BE BROADER AND AIM WILL BE HIGH. WHAT IT NEEDS TO HAVE CONFIDENCE IN YOU!

~ Priyanshu Joshi

[L]ike people, ideas have social lives. They’re one way when they’re by themselves, and another when they’re surrounded by their peers. Crammed together, they grow more uncertain, more interesting, more surprising; they come out of themselves and grow more appealing, and funnier. You wouldn’t want all of intellectual life to be that social--we couldn’t make progress that way. But there’s a special atmosphere that develops whenever truly different ideas congregate, and, on the whole, it’s too rare.

~ Joshua Rothman

You have two options. work on someone else's ideas and make some money or generate ideas make them work and become a millionaire.

~ Roberto Llamas

One of the most remarkable contributions of humans to the world is our capacity for ideas.

~ Richard J. Borden

Create lightning bolt ideas during brainstorms by causing disturbances in your atmosphere.

~ Ryan Lilly

An idea isn't responsible for the people who believe in it.

~ Don Marquis

I noticed that religion gave some people a way to escape dealing with the world: “Things will be better when you die,” the people of my grandma’s generation said as they worked themselves to death. “God wants you to forgive and love those who do you wrong,” some people said to shake off the shame of being unable to respond to the abuse they endured. The holier-than-thou faction found comfort in believing, “The rest of y’all are lost because you don’t have a personal relationship with God—our God.” But art engages you in the world, not just the world around you but the big world, and not just the big world of Tokyo and Sydney and Johannesburg, but the bigger world of ideas and concepts and feelings of history and humanity.

~ Wynton Marsalis

The difficulty lies not so much in developing new ideas as in escaping the old ones.

~ John Maynard Keynes

We shared ideas like sweaters, with easy exchange and lack of ownership.

~ Ann Patchett

...for each of us sees clarity only in those ideas which have the same degree of confusion as his own.

~ Marcel Proust

I sat and three hours later realized I had been seized by an idea that started short but grew to wild size by day's end. The concept was so riveting I found it hard at sunset to flee the library basement and take the bus home to reality: my house, my wife, and our baby daughter.

~ Ray Bradbury

Fortune follows those who can create ideas by connecting old ones. Strong personal brands are created when connection and creation connect.

~ Ryan Lilly

Once again, it seemed, I was discovering the truth of the rule, a rule I'd never explicitly formulated to myself, but whose veracity I'd quite often sensed in a vague sort of way, which was that the chances of seeing an idea through to completion are inversely proportional to the time you've spent talking about it beforehand.

~ Jean-Philippe Toussaint

Visualization prepares you for the experience of success. As you become increasingly optimistic and excited about ideas that motivate you, you open yourself to new ideas, meaningful relationships, and exhilarating opportunities.

~ Julie Connor

I had worked my way through a thousand problems, like when the tar paper bulged on the corners so I used a strap wrapped around the whole house and ratcheted it tight to attach the trim; I had figured that out without using a book, and that was just one of a bunch of ideas that had saved the day. I liked it; I was falling in love with the way my kneecaps knew how to hold a piece of plywood halfway up till I could grab the underside with my hand. I like the way the little house was taking shape, and the way it seemed to double-dog dare me to step in... move in.

~ Dee Williams

The idea turned Facebook into the digital version of a message in a bottle.

~ Massimo Marino

People tend to think that mathematicians always work in sterile conditions, sitting around and staring at the screen of a computer, or at a ceiling, in a pristine office. But in fact, some of the best ideas come when you least expect them, possibly through annoying industrial noise.

~ Edward Frenkel

Sometimes I like to think I live with ghosts. Not from my past, but wispy bits of ideas and books that hang in the air like silk puppets. Sometimes I think I see my own ideas, floating around too, but they usually don't last that long. They're more like mayflies; they're born, big and gleaming, and then they fly around, buzzing like crazy before they fall to the floor, dead, about twenty four hours later.

~ Scarlett Thomas

People with power listen less carefully, and have difficulty taking into account what others already know.

~ Dean M. Schroeder

In truth, ideas and principles are independent of men; the application of them and their illustration is man's duty and merit. The time will come when the author of a view shall be set aside, and the view only taken cognizance of. This will be the millennium of Science.

~ Edward Forbes

After years of operating in a top-down manner that emphasizes control and conformance, organizations are rife with obstacles to bottom-up ideas that front-line staff are forced to overcome.

~ Alan G. Robinson