98+ Best Idea Quotes: Exclusive Selection

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The world has always gone forward when people have dared to have crazy ideas. Gioconda Belli

Libraries were full of ideas perhaps the most dangerous and powerful of all weapons.

Crazy ideas sometimes work, and the technological society that we have is built on a foundation of those crazy ideas that work. Nathan Myhrvold

It is impossible to say how first the idea entered my brain; but once conceived, it haunted me day and night.

If some crazy idea stays in my head for long enough, then there’s no fighting it. I just say, Okay, let’s go. Jeff Bridges

Does it require deep intuition to comprehend that man’s ideas, views and conceptions, in one word, man’s consciousness, changes with every change in the conditions of his material existence, in his social relations and in his social life?

Where did we ever get the crazy idea that in order to make children do better, first we have to make them feel worse? Jane Nelsen

I shall have to controvert one or two ideas that are almost universally accepted.

For me the dream is the freedom to make all the crazy ideas I have in my head into movies. I truly love directing and I think it is a privilege to have this as an occupation. Nicholas Ozeki

It’s funny how ideas are, in a lot of ways they’re just like seeds. Both of them start real, real small and then woop, zoop, sloop before you can say Jack Robinson they’ve gone and grown a lot bigger than you ever thought they could.

Then I came up with this crazy idea just to walk out on the stage with no band at all and just start singing whatever came to mind. I actually fought the idea for a while because it seemed almost too radical, but it became obvious what I was supposed to be doing. Bobby McFerrin

But race is the child of racism, not the father.

I gave people the benefit of the doubt, thinking, so many people that appear very calm and even boring must have all these wild emotions and crazy ideas. Curtis Sittenfeld

Loves are like empires: when the idea they are founded on crumbles, they, too, fade away.

I don’t do things that are comedic. This is such a crazy idea. Angelina Jolie

Let everyone else call your idea crazy just keep going. Don’t stop. Don’t even think about stopping until you get there, and don’t give much thought to where there’ is. Whatever comes, just don’t stop.

I have this massive notebook called IDEAS and another one called PERSONAL IDEAS and another one called CRAZY IDEAS. Max Levchin

Sometimes it’s just true that other people have better ideas for your life than you do.

The day before something is a breakthrough, it’s a crazy idea. Peter Diamandis

It seems that in order to inscribe themselves upon the heart of humanity with everlasting claims, all great things have first to wander about the earth as enormous and awe inspiring caricatures.

An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all. Oscar Wilde

It was a silly notion: the whole thing has been a bore.

My ideas usually come not at my desk writing but in the midst of living. Anis Nin

Being with him made my brain quiet.  I didn’t have to invent a thing.

A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on. Ideas have endurance without death. John F. Kennedy

When an idea pops into our head and we think, ‘No, this is too crazy,’ that’s the idea we want.

Nothing is more dangerous than an idea when it is the only one you have. Emile Chartier

But I would help him as best I could. And I would try to keep friendship with him, maybe plant a few ideas in his mind that would help both me and the people who would be his slaves in the years to come. I might even be making things easier for Alice.

Every really new idea looks crazy at first. Alfred North Whitehead

People who preach inner drive are dreamers with a lot of ideas and a lot of talk, and zero production.

Don’t be afraid of new ideas. Be afraid of old ideas. They keep you where you are and stop you from growing and moving forward. Concentrate on where you want to go, not on what you fear. Anthony Robbins

Sometimes people hold a core belief that is very strong. When they are presented with evidence that works against that belief, the new evidence cannot be accepted.

Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle. Ken Hakuta

The gifted propagandist brings to a boil ideas and passions already simmering in the minds of its hearers. He echoes their innermost feelings. Where opinion is coerced, people can be made to believe only in what they already know.

No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change the world. Robin Williams

The purpose of the salon was partly to entertain and partly to educate the guests. By sharing ideas and debating philosophical points, artists found new inspiration for their work.

You can have brilliant ideas, but if you can’t get them across, your ideas won’t get you anywhere. Lee Iacocca

The new brand of political correctness, popular on college campuses and social media, is the idea that no speech should exist that directly challenges politically correct ideas.

The best way to have a good idea is to have a lot of ideas. Linus Pauling

You can have many great ideas in your head, but what makes the difference is the action. Without action upon an idea, there will be no manifestation, no results, and no reward.

If I have a thousand ideas and only one turns out to be good, I am satisfied. Alfred Nobel

Behind this mask there is more than just flesh. Beneath this mask there is an idea and ideas are bulletproof.

If there is time to reflect, slowing down is likely to be a good idea. Daniel Kahneman

If you give a good idea to a mediocre team, they will screw it up. If you give a mediocre idea to a brilliant team, they will either fix it or throw it away and come up with something better.

Ideas can be life changing. Sometimes all you need to open the door is just one more good idea. Jim Rohn

Gods die. And when they truly die they are unmourned and unremembered. Ideas are more difficult to kill than people, but they can be killed, in the end.

Acting on a good idea is better than just having a good idea. Robert Half

Find, develop, and support good people, and they in turn will find, develop, and own good ideas.

If you have one good idea, people will lend you twenty. Marie von Ebner Eschenbach

Getting the team right is the necessary precursor to getting the ideas right.

In order to have a TV series, you have to have a good idea for the story. Tiny Tim

Have you ever had the experience, Leon went on, ‘while reading a book, of coming upon some vague idea that you’ve had yourself, some obscure image that comes back to you from far away and seems to express absolutely your most subtle feelings?

New ideas pass through three periods: It can’t be done. It probably can be done, but it’s not worth doing.  I knew it was a good idea all along! Arthur C. Clarke

Ideas come from people. Therefore, people are more important than ideas.

You’ll find boredom where there is the absence of a good idea. Earl Nightingale

Don’t surrender all your joy for an idea you used to have about yourself that isn’t true anymore.

A good idea is not enough. It must be the fit of a particular idea for a particular entrepreneur and, ideally, unfair advantages in why said particular entrepreneur is going to address said particular idea. Amy Dunn

There aren’t terrible ideas. Just ideas done terribly.

There’s no good idea that can’t be improved on. Michael Eisner

That’s what would be so interesting, Pooh. Not being quite sure till afterwards.

Ideas shape the course of history. John Maynard Keynes

Good luck to you and bad luck to your theories.

Creativity comes from a conflict of ideas. Donatella Versace

People laugh at me because I use big words. But if you have big ideas, you have to use big words to express them, haven’t you?

Ideas are only as good as your ability to communicate them. Adena Friedman

You’re bound to get idears if you go thinkin’ about stuff.

İdeas are easy. It’s the execution of ideas that really separates the sheep from the goats. Sue Grafton

The Grinch got a wonderful, awful idea

There’s no learning without trying lots of ideas and failing lots of times. Jonathan Ive

Then it was that there came into my head the first of the mad notions that contributed so much to save our lives

The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas. George Santayana

The good ideas will survive. Quentin

Potential ideas are in your mind. By releasing and developing these ideas you can solve your financial problem, your business situation, you can care for yourself and your family, and attain success in your ventures.

The best ideas start as conversations. Jonathan Ive

No matter what anybody tells you, words and ideas can change the world.

You can’t crush ideas by suppressing them. You can only crush them by ignoring them. Vachel Lindsay

The best ideas are always the simplest.

When the rich think about the poor, they have poor ideas. Evita Peron

He felt himself trembling without control and he wanted to cry out loudly to stop the runaway horse of his brain. He had to find something! He raged in his mind. I won’t let it go!

The best ideas come as jokes. Make your thinking as funny as possible. David Ogilvy

Louis himself felt a little like crying. A wild but not unattractive idea suddenly came to him

No ideas and the ability to express them  that’s a journalist. Karl Kraus

Everyone has ideas. They may be too busy or lack the confidence or technical ability to carry them out. But I want to carry them out. It is a matter of getting up and doing it.  James Dyson

You don’t make a poem with ideas but with words Stephane Mallarme

Most people have no idea that tragedy and silence often have the exact same address.

Always write your ideas down however silly or trivial they might seem. Keep a notebook with you at all times. Michael Morpurgo

Your job isn’t to find these ideas but to recognize them when they show up.

Big ideas we tend to like are the ones that seem impossible or crazy. Bill Maris

She’d felt ragingly alive in the dream, but now she’s as inert as the eggs cooling on a plate. There’s a mirror her in the bedroom, too, but she chooses not to look at it, just in case her hunch is true and she’s invisible.

Life transforming ideas have always come to me through books. Bell Hooks

We should care for each other more than we care for ideas.

I love playing around with ideas and turning them into something useful or fun. Lonnie Johnson

This is the other secret that real artists know and wannabe writers don’t. When we sit down each day and do our work, power concentrates around us. The Muse takes note of our dedication. She approves. We have earned favor in her sight. When we sit down and work, we become like a magnetized rod that attracts iron filings. Ideas come. Insights accrete.

People today are still living off the table scraps of the sixties. They are still being passed around  the music and the ideas. Bob Dylan

I don’t want my idea of you. That’s too easy, and it isn’t real. I want you, faults and all. And I want you to want me, faults and all, not any ideas you have about love relationships love is not fantasy, it is bricks and mortar.

Writing is no trouble: you just jot down ideas as they occur to you. The jotting is simplicity itself  it is the occurring which is difficult. Stephen Leacock