I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Ideas doesn't make anyone rich, it is what you use it to do that makes you rich.”
“Ideas don't desert you; ideas aren't treasonous to you, but people can be.”
“Ideas don't get smaller when they're shared, they get bigger.”
“Ideas don't make you rich. The correct execution of ideas does.”
Source: How to Get Rich: One of the World's Greatest Entrepreneurs Shares His Secrets
“Ideas don’t make money, effort does.”
Source: The Toilet Paper Entrepreneur: The Tell-it-like-it-is Guide to Cleaning Up in Business, Even If You are at the End of Your Roll
“Ideas either age like fine wine or rot like potatoes over time.”
Source: On Writing Wonderfully: The Craft of Creative Fiction Writing
“Ideas emerge from plays, not the other way around.”
Source: Fool for Love and Other Plays
“Ideas emerge when a part of the real or imagined world is studied for its own sake.”
“Ideas, emotions, thoughts, and passion, are all different forms of energy that can be channeled. There will be periods when there is a lot of energy around you but it all seems very disorganized, unstable, and volatile. It's in those times that you need to take a seat, take a deep breath, and let everything balance out.
January 20, 2018.”
“Ideas excite me, and as soon as I get excited, the adrenaline gets going and the next thing I know I'm borrowing energy from the ideas themselves.”
Source: Listen to the Echoes: The Ray Bradbury Interviews
“Ideas exist in our minds that can be accounted for by no established laws.”
“Ideas exist in the marketplace; they are thrown out for everyone to use.”
“Ideas first and last: yet it is not till these are formulated and utilized that the devotees of the common sense discern their value and advantages. The idealist is the capitalist on whose resources multitudes are maintained life long. Ideas in the head set hands about their several tasks, thus carrying forward all human endeavors to their issues.”
“Ideas flow down from the Thought Reservoir without any limitation”
“Ideas for gadgets for the disabled were coming into my head so fast they seemed to be arriving from somewhere outside of me, beamed down by an unremitting force. I had little control over them, or their flow. I would wake up in the middle of the night. A blinding flash of an idea would rouse me from my bed and I'd rush down to my workshop to have a go at it before the inspiration dimmed.”
“Ideas for my first experiments in human aggression came from discussions we had in a research seminar about William Golding's 'Lord of the Flies.'”
“Ideas for songs can come from something as simple as a photograph and letting my imagination run wild on an old photograph that I found, or to a film that I have seen or to just most of the time, just daily walking through life and keeping your eyes open.”
“Ideas for stories come in really different terms and really different ways for me. Sometimes they're from books, sometimes they're just kind of out of the air, from nowhere, sometimes they're biographical, or sometimes they're other things [everyday life].”
“Ideas for work are coming to me in abundance...I'm going like a painting-locomotive.”
“Ideas get substance and value not by being discussed but by being lived.”
Source: The progress of a biographer
“Ideas go booming through the world louder than cannon. Thoughts are mightier than armies. Principles have achieved more victories than horsemen or chariots.”
“Ideas govern the world, or throw it into chaos.”
Source: Auguste Comte and Positivism: The Essential Writings
“Ideas grow quickly when watered with the blood of martyrs.”
“Ideas have a shelf-life. Share yours, let others collaborate, and you'll get new ones.”
“Ideas have a short half-life: if you don't put them to action, they die off.”
Source: Today Matters: 12 Daily Practices to Guarantee Tomorrow's Success
“Ideas have a short shelf life. You must act on them before the expiration date.”
“Ideas have consequences and bad ideas can have lethal consequences.”
Source: Letters to a Young Catholic
“Ideas have consequences, and totally erroneous ideas are likely to have destructive consequences.”
Source: More Steve Allen on the Bible, Religion and Morality
“Ideas have consequences.”
Source: Visions of Order: The Cultural Crisis of Our Time
“Ideas have far-reaching consequences, and one must be ever so careful about what one allows to lodge in one's brain.”
“Ideas have significance for him only as a prelude to action.”
Source: Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer
“Ideas improve. The meaning of words participates in the improvement. Plagiarism is necessary. Progress implies it. It embraces an author's phrase, makes use of his expressions, erases a false idea, and replaces it with the right idea.”
Source: Society Of The Spectacle
“Ideas in a void have never appealed to me; action must follow thought or political life is meaningless.”
Source: My life
“Ideas in art may be quite evident, and sometimes they're hidden. Sometimes they're simple, and sometimes they're quite complex. Great works of art can be based on very simple ideas, but it's all in the making, isn't it? It's in the facture.”
“Ideas in modern Russia are machine-cut blocks coming in solid colors; the nuance is outlawed, the interval walled up, the curve grossly stepped.”
Source: Pale fire
“Ideas in secret die. They need light and air or they starve to death.”
Source: Free Prize Inside: How to Make a Purple Cow
“Ideas in the head set hands about their several tasks.”
Source: Table-talk
“Ideas lack substance without experience, just as perceptions falter without structure. The mind alone cannot perceive, nor can the senses reason. True understanding emerges only when thought and awareness move in harmony.”
“Ideas like cosmic justice, collective hope, and national redemption had no meaning for me. The truth was in the everything that came after atheism, after the amorality of the universe is taken not as a problem but as a given. It was then that I was freed from considering my own morality away from the cosmic and the abstract. Life was short, and death undefeated. So I loved hard, since I would not love for long.”
Source: We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy
“Ideas love silence.
When you are silent, ideas come to knock on the door of your heart.”
Source: Night of a Thousand Thoughts
“Ideas make their way in silence like the waters that, altering behind the rocks of the Alps, loosen then from the mountains upon which they rest.”
“Ideas matter a lot, the underlying ideas that stand behind policies. When you don't have ideas, your policies are flip-flopping all over the place. When you do have ideas, you have more consistency. And when you have the right ideas - then you can get somewhere (reagan had the right ideas).”
“Ideas matter in New York. I am certain that more conversations in New York are about ideas than anywhere else. Not just vague theories, but ideas that New Yorkers have the will, and the clout, to do something about.”
“Ideas matter. Legislative proposals matter. Slick campaigns and dazzling speeches can work for a while, but the magic always wears off.”
“Ideas may be superior to vested interest. They are also very often the children of vested interest.”
“Ideas may drift into other minds, but they do not drift my way. I have to go and fetch them. I know no work manual or mental to equal the appalling heart-breaking anguish of fetching an idea from nowhere.”
“Ideas more than once have prevailed against naked power. Guns and aircraft alone do not make a state powerful. Unless force is backed up by the will of the great body of people it loses its meaning.”
“Ideas mostly come from the work itself. Often when I'm drawing, the words will be bouncing around in my head, and when I'm writing, ideas about the drawing happen.”
“Ideas move fast when their time comes.”
“Ideas move in space and time. They swim like fish. They drift like pollen. They migrate like birds. Sometimes their movement carries them right around the world, and they find new niches in which to flourish.”
Source: Is a River Alive?