Power Of Ideas Quotes

I begin with an idea and then it becomes something else.

All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.

New ideas pass through three periods: 1) It can’t be done. 2) It probably can be done, but it’s not worth doing. 3) I knew it was a good idea all along!

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

You do things when the opportunities come along. I’ve had periods in my life when I’ve had a bundle of ideas come along, and I’ve had long dry spells. If I get an idea next week, I’ll do something. If not, I won’t do a damn thing.

The mind, once stretched by a new idea, never returns to its original dimensions.

I can’t understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I’m frightened of the old ones.

Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life – think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success.

Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward; they may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.

Ideas won’t keep. Something must be done about them.

Our best ideas come from clerks and stockboys.

There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time as come.

I use the word power broadly. Even more important than military and economic power is the power of ideas, the power of compassion, and the power of hope.

A person with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.

The disruptive powers of excessive national fecundity may have played a greater part in bursting the bonds of convention than either the power of ideas or the errors of autocracy.

You can kill a man, but you can’t kill an idea.

Adults are always asking little kids what they want to be when they grow up because they’re looking for ideas