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Quotes About Ideas

I am interested in ideas, not merely in visual products.
~ Marcel Duchamp
The learned ignore the evidence of their senses to preserve the coherence of the ideas of their imagination.
~ Adam Smith
The peculiar value of geography lies in its fitness to nourish the mind with ideas and furnish the imagination with pictures.
~ Charlotte Mason
Reading supplies bread for imagination to feed on and bones for it to chew on.
~ Alex Faickney Osborn
Imagination is the air of mind.
~ Philip James Bailey
One's range [of ideas] is limited by one's interests and imagination and by one's passion.
~ Jasper Johns
Thoughts are like burning stars, and ideas, they flood, they stretch the universe.
~ Criss Jami, Killosophy
The creative act is a letting down of the net of human imagination into the ocean of chaos on which we are suspended, and the attempt to bring out of it ideas.
~ Terence McKenna
There is no connection between the political ideas of our educated class and the deep places of the imagination.
~ Lionel Trilling
The freedom of personal expression, ideas and imagination, working in collaboration with people from diverse backgrounds - is what's needed to spawn creativity.
~ Larry R. Thompson
I've never suffered from writer's block. I have plenty of ideas, sometimes too many. I've always had a strong imagination. If it dries up I'll stop and look for another career.
~ J. G. Ballard
Books have a vital place in our culture. They are the source of ideas, of stories that engage and stretch the imagination and most importantly, inspire.
~ Sara Sheridan
Liberty sets the mind free, fosters independence and unorthodox thinking and ideas. But it does not offer instant prosperity or happiness and wealth to everyone.
~ Boris Yeltsin
I don't care that they stole my idea . . I care that they don't have any of their own
~ Nikola Tesla
Talk and write in a way that encourages the mutual exchange of ideas and acts like a midwife to people birthing their own ideas.
~ Grace Lee Boggs
I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
~ John Cage
Nothing is more powerful for your future than being a gatherer of good ideas and information. That's called doing your homework.
~ Jim Rohn
Innovation is the creation of the new, or the re-arranging of the old in a new way
~ Mike Vance
Good ideas stay with you until you eventually write the story.
~ Brian Keene
When I quote others I do so in order to express my own ideas more clearly.
~ Michel de Montaigne
There are many really stupid ideas that wind up being brilliant, if you can implement them.
~ Gene Simmons
What holds most people back isn't the quality of their ideas, but their lack of faith in themselves.
~ Russell Simmons
Imagination is the spark that ignites the fire of creativity.
~ Richard L. Peterson
All your ideas may be solid or even good .. But you have to Actually EXECUTE on them for them to matter.
~ Gary Vaynerchuk