best quotations about
Ideas |
| 38 quotes | Visits: 1,406 |
Quotations
 | Ideas are like frog eggs: you've got to lay a thousand to hatch one. — Peter Drucker, 1909–2005, Austrian management guru 6 likes |
 | There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time has come. — Victor Hugo, 1802-1885, French writer 4 likes |
 | The ability to express an idea is well nigh as important as the idea itself. — Bernard Baruch, 1870-1965, American businessman & statesman 4 likes |
 | I have lots of bright and new ideas, but the bright ones aren't new, and the new ones aren't bright. — Marcel Achard, 1899-1974, French playwright 4 likes |
 | An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all. — Oscar Wilde, 1854-1900, Irish writer 3 likes |
 | I begin with an idea and then it becomes something else. — Pablo Picasso, 1881-1973, Spanish painter 3 likes |
 | A new idea comes suddenly and in a rather intuitive way. But intuition is nothing but the outcome of earlier intellectual experience. — Albert Einstein, 1879-1955, German-Jewish physicist 3 likes |
 | An idea that is not dangerous is not worthy of being called an idea at all. — Elbert Hubbard, 1856-1915, American writer 3 likes |
 | The making of a journalist: no ideas and the ability to express them. — Karl Kraus, 1874-1936, Austrian writer 3 likes |
 | I guess the real reason that my wife and I had children is the same reason that Napoleon had for invading Russia: it seemed like a good idea at the time. — Bill Cosby, 1937-, American comedian 3 likes |
 | A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn. — Ovid, 43 BC-17 AD, Roman poet 2 likes |
| You have to have an idea of what you are going to do, but it should be a vague idea. — Pablo Picasso, 1881-1973, Spanish painter 2 likes |
 | Before you reject an idea, find at least five good things about it. — Thomas Edison, 1847-1934, American inventor 2 likes |
 | Having precise ideas often leads to a man doing nothing. — Paul Valery, 1871-1945, French poet 2 likes |
| Serious people have few ideas. People with ideas are never serious. — Paul Valery, 1871-1945, French poet 2 likes |
 | Success is often just an idea away. — Frank Tyger, 1929-2011, American cartoonist 2 likes |
 | Get a good idea and stay with it. Dog it, and work at it until it’s done right. — Walt Disney, 1901-1966, American businessman & cartoonist 2 likes |
| An idea is a point of departure and no more. As soon as you elaborate it, it becomes transformed by thought. — Pablo Picasso, 1881-1973, Spanish painter 2 likes |
 | I had so many ideas. Jammed up. It was like they just needed permission to come out. — Stephen King, 1947-, American author of horror & fantasy fiction 2 likes |
 | Ideas are a dime a dozen. It's execution that counts. — Frank Herbert, 1920-1986, American sci-fi writer 1 likes |
 | Good books are the warehouses of ideas. |
 | Every great idea starts out as a blasphemy. |
 | Ideas are everywhere, but knowledge is rare. |
 | Words are never lacking in ideas; ideas are lacking in words. |
 | In any new idea, we have to look for where it comes from and where it goes. Only then can we know if it is good or not. |
 | I have enough ideas so that I can be robbed without harming me. |
 | We shouldn’t be looking for heroes, we should be looking for good ideas. — Noam Chomsky, 1928-, American linguist, philosopher, social activist |
 | Human stupidity is having a lot of ideas, but stupid ideas. |
 | The ideas I stand for are not mine. I borrowed them from Socrates. I swiped them from Chesterfield. I stole them from Jesus. And I put them in a book. If you don't like their rules whose would you use? |
 | I don't care that they stole my idea . . I care that they don't have any of their own |
| A new idea must not be judged by its immediate results. |
 | Having lots of ideas doesn’t mean you’re clever, any more than having lots of soldiers means you’re a good general. |
| There are well-dressed foolish ideas just as there are well-dressed fools. |
 | Everything happens through ideas, they produce facts, which serve them only as an envelope. — François-René de Chateaubriand, 1768-1848, French poet & politician |
 | For women, every idea has a face. |
Funny Quotes
 | I had a monumental idea this morning, but I didn't like it. — Sam Goldwyn, 1879-1974, American film producer 2 likes |
Movie Quotes
 | I can never have a real conversation with you. You never have ideas, only feelings. That's not true. There are ideas in feelings. — from the film Pierrot le Fou (1965) 4 likes |
 | Hang on a minute, lads, I’ve got a great idea. — from the film The Italian Job (1969) 3 likes |
