Quotes About Ideas

Democracy is held captive, not just by money, but by ideas - the ideas that money buys.

Storytelling is the most powerful way to put ideas into the world today.

I get all my good ideas sort of at one o' clock in the morning, and I tried for a while to behave like normal people.

Inside the calm minds, great ideas swim serenely like the morning geese of the misty lakes!

I write in the mornings, in the bright daylight. But I get most of my good ideas after the sun has gone down and the dark is on the land.

Sometimes the best ideas I have are in my bathtub or in my bed or in my dreams early in the morning before waking up ... I'm like a TV antennae, I catch it all and do it my way.

I really struggle to get up in the morning, but I also get my best ideas really late at night, when I'm trying to sleep.

Most writers seem to prefer the morning, or they feel at their best in the morning. Ideas are popping into your head while you're in the shower. And that's true for me, as well.

When Christianity is received, it stimulates the faculties, and calls forth new ideas, new motives and new sentiments. It has been the mother of all modern education

Ideas of value always shun verbosity, being foreign to confusion and fantasy. Timely silence, then, is precious, for it is nothing less than the mother of the wisest thoughts.

You get your inspiration - suggestions - wherever you have to, even from your mother.

You can have brilliant ideas, but if you can't get them across, your ideas won't get you anywhere.

Many great ideas go unexecuted, and many great executioners are without ideas. One without the other is worthless.

Ideas are the beginning of all achievement.

Strong minds talk about ideas; weak minds talk about people.

A good idea is never lost. Even though its originator or possessor may die, it will someday be reborn in the mind of another.

Fear is death, fear is sin, fear is hell, fear is unrighteousness, and fear is wrong life. All the negative thoughts and ideas that are in the world have proceeded from this evil spirit of fear.

Research your idea. See if there's a demand. A lot of people have great ideas, but they don't know if there's a need for it. You also have to research your competition.

Because ideas have to be original only with regard to their adaptation to the problem at hand, I am always extremely interested in how others have used used them.

Ideas attract money, time, talents, skills, energy and other complementary ideas that will bring them into reality.

Those who are fired with an enthusiastic idea and who allow it to take hold and dominate their thoughts find that new worlds open for them. As long as enthusiasm holds out, so will new opportunities.

One of the lessons of history is that even the deepest crises can be moments of opportunity. They bring ideas from the margins into the mainstream.

Groundbreaking innovators generate and execute far more ideas.

My principal business is giving commercial value to the brilliant - but misdirected - ideas of others.