Quotes by Subject: Ideas
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An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come. | * | ||
Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats. | |||
Quality means doing it right when no one is looking. | |||
If you would have gold in all your days, ascertain where it will exist in the future, and be there when it occurs. | * | ||
Any man who afflicts the human race with ideas must be prepared to see them misunderstood. | |||
I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones. | |||
When ideas fail, words come in very handy. | |||
A mediocre idea that generates enthusiasm will go further than a great idea that inspires no one. | |||
A person with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds. | |||
Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle. | |||
An idea is a feat of association. | |||
A mediocre idea that generates enthusiasm will go further than a great idea that inspires no one. | |||
A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a quip and worried to death by a frown on the right man's brow. | |||
Trust your hunches. They're usually based on facts filed away just below the conscious level. | |||
People fascinated by the idea of progress never suscpect that every step forward is also a step on the way to the end. | |||
It is by acts and not by ideas that people live. | |||
A committee is a cul-de-sac down which ideas are lured and then quietly strangled. | |||
The best way to have a good idea is to have lots of ideas. | |||
You can judge your age by the amount of pain you feel when you come in contact with a new idea. | |||
The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it. | |||
Never fall in love with an idea. They're whores: if the one you're with isn't doing the job, there's always, always, always another. | * | ||
Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle. | |||
I had a monumental idea this morning, but I didn't like it. | |||
To die for an idea; it is unquestionably noble. But how much nobler it would be if men died for ideas that were true! | |||
Any man who afflicts the human race with ideas must be prepared to see them misunderstood. | |||
Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle. | |||
*indicates a past Quote of The Week
