I Quotes
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“Ideas aren't a sideshow that make our factory a little more valuable. Our factory is a sideshow that makes our ideas a little more valuable!”
“Ideas aren't magical; the only tricky part is holding on to one long enough to get it written down.”
“Ideas aren't real estate, they grow collectively and that knocks out the egotistical loneliness that generally infects art.”
“Ideas as things to play with; if you hold onto them for too long, they become something dead...connecting to the world is more important than holding onto your ego”
Source: The Laws of Human Nature
“Ideas attract money, time, talents, skills, energy and other complementary ideas that will bring them into reality.”
“Ideas become inventions become innovations.”
“Ideas become powerful only if they appear in the flesh; an idea which does not lead to action by the individual and by groups remains at best a paragraph or a footnote in a book.”
Source: The Revolution of Hope
“Ideas become reality. once you hit that reality, you get a new idea. it's a virtuous upward spiral. However, the majority are satisfied living within the idea of the reality instead of the reality of the idea.”
“Ideas begin their life as small seeds, so light they may drift through the air like dust motes. If a human is fortunate enough to catch one, when the light is right, it can be planted, just like a seed. With fertile soil, it may grow into a flower or tree, which will re-seed, thus producing a whole field or forest.”
Source: Guardian Cats and the Lost Books of Alexandria
“Ideas brush past fleeting and insubstantial as moths. But I let them go, I don't want them. What I want is a voice.”
“Ideas bubble differently when we're forced to inquire about the obvious.”
“Ideas by themselves are not worth anything, only executing well is what creates value.”
“Ideas by themselves cannot produce change of being; your effort must go in the right direction, and one must correspond to the other.”
“Ideas came with explosive immediacy, like an instant birth. Human thought is like a monstrous pendulum; it keeps swinging from one extreme to the other.”
“Ideas can be killed only by other ideas!”
“Ideas can be life-changing. Sometimes all you need to open the door is just one more good idea.”
“IDEAS CAN BE TRANSMUTED INTO CASH THROUGH THE POWER OF DEFINITE PURPOSE, PLUS DEFINITE PLANS.”
Source: Think and Grow Rich with Foreword by Lewis Schiff
“Ideas can be willed, and the imagination is their engine.”
Source: Marketing Imagination: New, Expanded Edition
“Ideas can come while reading a good novel.”
“Ideas can no more flow backward than can a river.”
“Ideas can not be stolen but implemented faster than envisioned originally by the first bearer. If you want to be the implementer of your own ideas then act faster, keep your mind open and mouth shut.”
“Ideas can't die, not because they are conceived by humans, but because time begets them.”
“Ideas cannot be burned. They cannot be destroyed just because a few copies of the book they’re printed in are.”
Source: The Collector of Burned Books
“Ideas cannot be changed through argument. We are not seeking to discover new ideas but rather to create new attitudes in ourselves and others with regard to ideas.”
Source: Conversations in Maine: Exploring Our Nation's Future
“Ideas cannot be fought except by means of better ideas. The battle consists, not of opposing, but of exposing; not of denouncing, but of disproving; not of evading, but of boldly proclaiming a full, consistent, and radical alternative.”
Source: The Return of the Primitive: The Anti-Industrial Revolution
“Ideas come and go and will never amount to anything if you don't act upon them. But when you do, you have a chance to create something special that will last beyond the limitations of time.”
Source: Bullying Ben: How Benjamin Franklin Overcame Bullying
“Ideas come and go, stories stay.”
Source: The Black Swan: Second Edition: The Impact of the Highly Improbable Fragility
“Ideas come as you walk, Nietzsche said. Walking dissipates thoughts, Shankara taught.”
Source: The Trouble with Being Born
“Ideas come at any moment -- except when you demand them. Most ideas come while I'm physically active, at the gym, with friends, gardening, so I always carry pen and paper. My first draft is always written in longhand. But once the first dozen chapters, more like short stories, are written, then momentum builds until I can't leave the project until it's done.”
“Ideas come from curiosity.”
“Ideas come from everything”
“Ideas come from everywhere - they come from what you see and hear and imagine.”
“Ideas come from the Earth. They come from every human experience that you’ve either witnessed or have heard about, translated into your brain in your own sense of dialogue, in your own language form. Ideas are born from what is smelled, heard, seen, experienced, felt, emotionalized. Ideas are probably in the air, like little tiny items of ozone.”
“Ideas come in pairs and they contradict one another; their opposition is the principal engine of reflection.”
Source: Sartre on Cuba
“ideas come in the doing: learn it, to know it.”
Source: The Age of Ideas: Unlock Your Creative Potential
“Ideas come through us, not from us.”
“Ideas come to people who are receptive to them.”
“Ideas come when we do not expect them, and not when we are brooding and searching at our desks. Yet ideas would certainly not come to mind had we not brooded at our desks and searched for answers with passionate devotion.”
Source: From Max Weber: Essays in Sociology
“Ideas control the world.”
“Ideas devour the ages as men are devoured by their passions. When man is cured, human nature will cure itself perhaps.”
“Ideas disturb the levelness of life”
Source: Reborn: Journals and Notebooks, 1947-1963
“Ideas do have consequences in history, yet not because those ideas are inherently truthful or obviously correct but rather because of the way they are embedded in very powerful institutions, networks, interests, and symbols.”
Source: To Change the World: The Irony, Tragedy, and Possibility of Christianity in the Late Modern World
“Ideas do matter and do have consequences.”
Source: Six Pillars of Self-Esteem
“Ideas do not always come in a flash but by diligent trial-and-error experiments that take time and thought.”
“Ideas do not exist separately from language.”
Source: Karl Marx: A Reader
“Ideas do not have to be correct in order to be good; its only necessary that, if they do fail, they do so in an interesting way.”
“Ideas do not need weapons, to the extent that they can convince the great masses.”
“Ideas do not need weapons.”
“Ideas do not respect national frontiers, and this is especially so where language and other traditions are in common.”
Source: The affluent society
“Ideas do not work..
It is YOU who has to do the work....”
Source: From the Rat Race to Financial Freedom