I Quotes
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“Ideas are cheap. I have more ideas now than I could ever write up. To my mind, it's the execution that is all-important.”
“Ideas are commodity. Execution of them is not.”
“Ideas are conceptualized because objects are materialized.”
Source: Originemology
“ideas are dangerous commodities.”
Source: Murder by Matchlight
“Ideas are dangerous, but the man to whom they are least dangerous is the man of ideas. He is acquainted with ideas, and moves among them like a lion-tamer. Ideas are dangerous, but the man to whom they are most dangerous is the man of no ideas. The man of no ideas will find the first idea fly to his head like wine to the head of a teetotaller.”
Source: The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton
“Ideas are easy to come by, they spring effortlessly out of the vacuity of the mind and cost nothing. When they are held and projected onto one's self or others they become a project. When the project is enacted it becomes the work, and when the work is completed it appears to be self-existent. Creation is the process of form manifesting from emptiness, where that which arises from the mind comes into existence. Yet the distance between conception and realisation may be enormous, as vast as the distance between the stars.”
“Ideas are easy to come by; reduction to practice is an arduous but inspirationally rewarding matter.”
Source: Critical Path
“Ideas are easy to conceive, less easy to execute.”
“Ideas are easy. Execution is everything. It takes a team to win.”
“Ideas are easy. I've never met a single person who didn't think they had a world class idea. The hard part is making it a business.”
“Ideas are easy. Implementation is hard.”
Source: The Art of the Start 2.0: The Time-Tested, Battle-Hardened Guide for Anyone Starting Anything
“Ideas are easy. It's the execution of ideas that really separates the sheep from the goats.”
“Ideas are elusive, slippery things. Best to keep a pad of paper and a pencil at your bedside, so you can stab them during the night before they get away.”
“Ideas are everywhere, but knowledge is rare.”
Source: Knowledge And Decisions
“Ideas are expressed using good and bad words and they usually create similar ideas, but not always. However, if you prohibit too many words, you prohibit an equal amount of ideas.”
“Ideas are fatal to caste.”
Source: A Passage to India
“Ideas are floating like fish. Desire for an idea is like a bait on a hook. If you desire an idea, it pulls and it makes a kind of a bait. Ideas will come swimming up. And you don't know them until they enter the conscious mind. And then bingo! There it is! You know it instantly. And then more come in. If you go fishing for ideas, a lot of ideas will just pop in. And one of them will make you fall in love.”
“Ideas are forces; our acceptance of one determines our reception of others.”
“Ideas are God pulling up the frame of the curtain to show us what can be.”
“Ideas are great arrows, but there has to be a bow.”
“Ideas are great. Execution rocks. Knowing the ROI amplifies the contributions of everyone involved and keeps stakeholders happy.”
Source: Raise Your Innovation IQ: 21 Ways to Think Differently During Times of Change
“Ideas are incestuous.”
Source: The Art and Science of Negotiation
“Ideas are indeed the most dangerous weapons in the world. Our ideas of freedom are the most powerful political weapons man has ever forged.”
Source: An Almanac of Liberty
“Ideas are infinite, original, and lively divine thoughts.”
“Ideas are information taking shape.”
“Ideas are inherently conservative. They yield not to the attack of other ideas but to the massive onslaught of circumstance with which they cannot contend.”
Source: The affluent society
“Ideas are intangible forces, but they have more power than the physical brains that give birth to them. They have the power to live on, after the brain that creates them has returned to dust.”
Source: Think and grow rich: Brazilian edition
“Ideas are interesting to me, and religions are a place where ideas have been very subtly embodied for thousands of years. All literature started as sacred literature.”
“Ideas are invented only as correctives to the past. Through repeated rectification of this kind one may hope to disengage an idea that is valid.”
“Ideas are just a multiplier of execution.”
Source: Anything You Want: 40 Lessons for a New Kind of Entrepreneur
“Ideas are like bananas. That bananas grow only in tropical regions doesn't make them any less delicious in Scandinavia.”
Source: The Geography of Genius: A Search for the World's Most Creative Places from Ancient Athens to Silicon Valley
“Ideas are like beards; men do not have them until they grow up.”
“Ideas are like birds flying over the head; learn to nest, nurture and brood their eggs, they will hatch greatness and success.”
“Ideas are like dreams; they will disappear unless we record them. Write a book, a blog, build a company, anything that makes the ideas real.”
“Ideas are like everything else. They've got to be marketed.”
Source: Ordeal by innocence: Cat among the pigeons
“Ideas are like fish. If you want to catch little fish, you can stay in the shallow water. But if you want to catch the big fish, you’ve got to go deeper. Down deep, the fish are more powerful and more pure.They’re huge and abstract. And they’re very beautiful.”
“Ideas are like flowers that bloom in our mind’s garden!”
“Ideas are like frog eggs: you've got to lay a thousand to hatch one.”
“Ideas are like matter, infinitely divisible. It is not given to us to get down so to speak to their final atoms, but to their molecular groupings-the way is never ending and the progress infinitely delightful and profitable.”
“Ideas are like pizza dough, made to be tossed around, and nearly every book represents what my son's third grade teacher refers to as a "teachable moment.”
“Ideas are like pizza dough, made to be tossed around.”
“Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.”
Source: Conversations with John Steinbeck
“Ideas are like seeds, apparently insignificant when first held in the hand. Once firmly planted, they can grow and flower into almost anything at all, a cornstalk, or a giant redwood, or a flight across the ocean. Whatever a man imagines, he can achieve.”
Source: The Spirit of St. Louis
“Ideas are like stars; you will not succeed in touching them with your hands. But like the seafaring man in the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them you will reach you destiny. Perhaps you could get a clearer idea of our destiny if we took time out to examine our ideas, and upgraded them if necessary. What things are most important to you? If you could do anything you wanted to be, what would you be? If you could achieve a single objective in life, what would it be?”
“Ideas are like wandering sons. They show up when you least expect them.”
“Ideas are meaningless without a masterful execution.”
Source: The Art of Startup Fundraising
“Ideas are merely sensations imprinted deep inside us...Like attracts like...There is great wisdom in the subconscious mind. If you begin to work with it, it can be of tremendous benefit to you and serve as an excellent reservoir of knowledge.”
“Ideas are more powerful than guns. We would not let our enemies have guns, why should we let them have ideas.”
“Ideas are more powerful than people.”
“ideas are never scarce; it is only one's panic sense of limitation that blocks the way.”