I Quotes
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“Ideas must be put to the test. That's why we make things; otherwise they would be no more than ideas. There is often a huge difference between an idea and its realization. I've had what I thought were great ideas that just didn't work.”
“Ideas must surpass gold to surpass time.”
Source: World War Human: 100 New Earthling Sonnets
“Ideas must work through the brains and arms of men, or they are no better than dreams”
“Ideas must work through the brains and the arms of good and brave men or they are no better than dreams.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)
“Ideas need collective thought.”
“Ideas need to stand out to be noticed. There is so much noisy information out there that if your message is bland, it won't be heard or acted upon. To avoid obscurity, you need to clash with your environment. Incorporating contrast into your presentation will help it stand out. You create contrast by using the presentation form. For example, you can state the problem, then the solution. State an opposing perspective, then your perspective. State the past, then your picture of the future. Adding the cadence of contrast will pull your idea out of obscurity.”
“Ideas never lack for words. It is words that lack ideas.”
Source: Pensées of Joubert
“Ideas never lack for words. It is words that lack ideas.
As soon as the idea has come to its last degree of perfection,
the word blossoms.”
“Ideas, of course, have a place in fiction, and any writer of fiction needs a mind. But ideas are not the best subject matter for fiction. They do not dramatize well. They are, rather, a by-product, something the reader himself is led to formulate after watching the story unfold. The ideas, the generalizations, ought to be implicit in the selection and arrangement of the people and places and actions. They ought to haunt a piece of fiction as a ghost flits past an attic window after dark.”
Source: On Teaching and Writing Fiction
“Ideas of value always shun verbosity, being foreign to confusion and fantasy. Timely silence, then, is precious, for it is nothing less than the mother of the wisest thoughts.”
“Ideas often dance a capella”
Source: How to Be an Antiracist
“Ideas often flash across our minds more complete than we could make them after much labor.”
“Ideas often kindle each other, like electrical sparks.”
“Ideas often last but a day; feelings, dreams almost forever.”
“Ideas on earth were badges of friendship or enimity. Their content did not matter. Friends agreed with friends, in order to express friendliness. Enemies disagreed with enemies, in order to express enimity.”
Source: Breakfast of champions: or, Goodbye blue Monday!
“Ideas or the lack of them can cause disease.”
Source: Breakfast of champions: or, Goodbye blue Monday!
“Ideas provide actors with an interpretive framework to explain the cause and urgency of a problem, suggest preferred initiatives, challenge existing institutions, and serve as a blueprint for their replacements.”
Source: 5 Ideas from Global Diplomacy: System-wide Transformation Methods to Close the Compliance Gap and Advance the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals
“Ideas pull the trigger, but instinct loads the gun.”
“Ideas rather than methods are central to they way I work, although drawing plays a central generative role in everything I do.”
“Ideas really do matter. But in any organization a good idea will only go so far unless its proponents are willing to fight the political games to get the idea adopted.”
“Ideas reflect the moment, and so you have to use them. If you store ideas, they wither.”
“Ideas represent a wonderful manifestation of the functioning of the human mind.”
“Ideas result from the collision of metaphors inside the head.”
“Ideas rise with new mornings but never die.”
Source: Black Moods: Collected Poems
“Ideas run wild without discussion.”
Source: Urban Shaman
“Ideas seem to come from everywhere - my life, everything I see, hear, and read, and most of all, from my imagination. I have a lot of imagination.”
“Ideas seldom sell themselves. In fact, the bolder the idea, the more it needs selling. Fresh ideas challenge people to let go of old ideas in order to embrace the new ideas. Selling helps that happen.”
“Ideas shape the course of history.”
“Ideas should be neutral. But man animates them with his passions and folly. Impure and turned into beliefs, they take on the appearance of reality. The passage from logic is consummated. Thus are born ideologies, doctrines, and bloody farce.”
“Ideas Surpass Gold
(Sonnet 1530)
Most of my boldest ideas are
available online without paywall.
Which means, you don't need to pay,
to integrate my ideas into your life.
Since I don't have an industry behind,
it does help when you make a purchase.
But I never ask no one to buy my books,
I'd rather starve than monetize oneness.
Soon this body will surpass corporeal chains,
monetary demands of living will collapse a lie.
I mustn't stain my sacred life craving coins,
Ideas must surpass gold to surpass time.”
Source: World War Human: 100 New Earthling Sonnets
“Ideas take us in an overwhelming domain; just as if we never had an idea.”
“Ideas taken and planted into the grave do not germinate.”
Source: Become a Better You
“Ideas that are at odds with the inherited collective wisdom of antiquity are always, on their face suspect.”
“Ideas that are not fueled by passion often get less attention and vanish with no action.”
“Ideas that change business models and that can make money are the most threatening, outside actual religion.”
“Ideas that don't even exist have the power to destroy the world.”
“Ideas that enter the mind under fire remain there securely and for ever.”
Source: My Life: An Attempt at an Autobiography
“Ideas that most people derided as ridiculous have produced the best outcomes. Don't do the obvious thing.”
“Ideas that require people to reorganize their picture of the world provoke hostility.”
Source: Chaos: Making a New Science
“Ideas that spread win.”
Source: Purple Cow, New Edition: Transform Your Business by Being Remarkable
“Ideas that spread win. Ideas don't have to be selfish to win, in fact, it turns out that the more generous the interactions an idea produces, the more likely it is to spread.”
“Ideas that transform industries almost never come from inside those industries.”
“Ideas too are a life and a world.”
“Ideas visuales combinadas con tecnología e interpretación personal es igual a fotografía”
“Ideas, well exececuted, have the power to spark revolutionary new ways of being that improve and enrich life.”
Source: Business Ideation: The Five Steps
“Ideas were growing in all directions and dimensions; they were becoming a sculpture, or a castle. And then everyone left her, to return to their own affairs; and she was alone, and empty and unbelieving again.”
Source: Bitterblue
“Ideas, when you're a kid, are a bit like seeds scattered in the wind. Some don't make it; they get carried away on the breeze, forgotten about and never mentioned again. Others take root. They dig their way down, they grow and they spread.”
Source: The Chalk Man
“Ideas which have been developed simultaneously or in immediate succession in the same mind mutually reproduce each other, and do this with greater ease in the direction of the original succession and with a certainty proportional to the frequency with which they were together”
Source: Memory: A Contribution to Experimental Psychology
“Ideas will be the major source of new wealth.”
Source: Goals!: How to Get Everything You Want-- Faster Than You Ever Thought Possible
“Ideas without capital are like seeds without soil. It's capital that turns business potential into business productivity.”