Quotes About Ideas

Ideas are a dime a dozen. People who put them into action are priceless.

A man cannot dress, without his ideas get clothed at the same time.

This world of ours is a new world, in which the unit of knowledge, the nature of human communities, the order of society, the order of ideas, the very notions of society and culture have changed, and will not return to what they have been in the past. What is new is new, not because it has never been there before, but because it has changed in quality.

Thinkers prepare the revolution; bandits carry it out.

What some invent the rest enlarge.

Talk uses up ideas. ... Once I have spoken them aloud, they are lost to me, dissipated into the noisy air like smoke. Only if I bury them, like bulbs, in the rich soil of silence do they grow.

Though reading and conversation may furnish us with many ideas of men and things, our own meditation must form our judgement.

I had never been as resigned to ready-made ideas as I was to ready-made clothes, perhaps because although I couldn't sew, I could think.

When ideas come, I write them; when they don't come, I don't.

It is the essence of genius to make use of the simplest ideas.

The simplest things give me ideas.

Entrepreneurs average 3.8 failures before final success. What sets the successful ones apart is their amazing persistence. There are a lot of people out there with good and marketable ideas, but pure entrepreneurial types almost never accept defeat.

Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.

I've dreamt in my life dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas: they've gone through and through me, like wine through water, and altered the color of my mind.

We are governed not by armies, but by ideas.

Wit is the sudden marriage of ideas which, before their union, were not perceived to have any relation.

Feminism is the most revolutionary idea there has ever been. Equality for women demands a change in the human psyche, more profound than anything Marx dreamed of. It means valuing parenthood as much as we value banking.

Words are the small change of thought.

Writing is no trouble: you just jot down ideas as they occur to you. The jotting is simplicity itself- it is the occurring which is difficult.

Just get it down on paper, and then we'll see what to do with it.

The editorial job has become, unlike the ancient age when one judged what one read, a job of making judgements on outlines, ideas, reputations, previous books, scenarios, treatments, talk and promises.

Bad writers are those who try to express their own feeble ideas in the language of good ones.

Geblendet vom Gefühl stolzer Kühnheit, mit dem das erste und unvollständige Wissen den jungen Menschen erfüllt, und begeistert von den Ideen vom Recht der Völker auf Freiheit und des Einzelmenschen auf Vergnügen und Würde, kamen diese Jünglinge aus den großen Städten, von den Gymnasien und Universitäten, auf denen sie lernten.

A lot of the general population are wrong.