“Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.”
Oscar Wilde (Irish Poet, Novelist, Dramatist and Critic, 1854-1900)
“An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.”
Oscar Wilde (Irish Poet, Novelist, Dramatist and Critic, 1854-1900)
“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, that is way great spiritual giants are produced.”
Swami Vivekananda (Indian Spiritual leader of the Hindu religion (Vedanta). Disciple of the famous 19th century mystic-saint Sri Ramakrishna of Calcutta. Founder of the Ramakrishna Order of Monks. 1863-1902)
“An idea that is developed and put into action is more important than an idea that exists only as an idea.”
Buddha (Hindu Prince Gautama Siddharta, the founder of Buddhism, 563-483 B.C.)
“Good ideas are common - what's uncommon are people who'll work hard enough to bring them about”
Ashleigh Brilliant (English Author and Cartoonist, b.1933)
“Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats.”
Howard Aiken (American computer engineer and mathematician 1900-1973)
“Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk - and to act.”
Andre Malraux (French Historian, Novelist and Statesman, 1901-1976)
“Adults are always asking little kids what they want to be when they grow up because they're looking for ideas”
Paula Poundstone (American Comic, b.1959)
“My ideas usually come not at my desk writing but in the midst of living.”
Anais Nin (French born American Author of novels and short stories, 1903-1977)
“The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret of outward success.”
Henry Ward Beecher (Liberal US Congregational minister, 1813-1887)
“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!”
Arthur C. Clarke (English Writer of science fiction, b.1917)
“Ideas can be life-changing. Sometimes all you need to open the door is just one more good idea.”
Jim Rohn (American Speaker and Author. He is famous for motivational audio programs for Business and Life. )
“The way to get good ideas is to get lots of ideas, and throw the bad ones away”
Dr. Linus Pauling (American theoretical chemist and biologist 1901-1994)
“A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on. Ideas have endurance without death.”
John Fitzgerald Kennedy (American 35th US President (1961-63), 1917-1963)
“Everyone is in love with his own ideas”
Carl Gustav Jung (Swiss psychiatrist, Psychologist and Founder of the Analytic Psychology, 1875-1961)
“What moves those of genius, what inspires their work is not new ideas, but their obsession with the idea that what has already been said is still not enough.”
Eugene Delacroix (French Romantic painter, 1798-1863)
“If you want to kill any idea in the world, get a committee working on it.”
Charles F. Kettering (American engineer, inventor of the electric starter, 1876-1958)
“I know quite certainly that I myself have no special talent; curiosity, obsession and dogged endurance, combined with self-criticism, have brought me to my ideas.”
Albert Einstein (German born American Physicist who developed the special and general theories of relativity. Nobel Prize for Physics in 1921. 1879-1955)
“When an idea exclusively occupies the mind, it is transformed into an actual physical or mental state.”
Swami Vivekananda (Indian Spiritual leader of the Hindu religion (Vedanta). Disciple of the famous 19th century mystic-saint Sri Ramakrishna of Calcutta. Founder of the Ramakrishna Order of Monks. 1863-1902)
“The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.”
William James (American Philosopher and Psychologist, leader of the philosophical movement of Pragmatism, 1842-1910)
“Nearly every man who develops an idea works it up to the point where it looks impossible, and then he gets discouraged. That's not the place to become discouraged.”
Thomas Alva Edison (Most famous American Inventor who, singly or jointly, held a world record 1.093 patents. In addition, he created the world's first industrial research laboratory, 1847-1931)
“All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind.”
Abraham Lincoln (American 16th US President (1861-65), who brought about the emancipation of the slaves. 1809-1865)
“The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.”
Abraham Lincoln (American 16th US President (1861-65), who brought about the emancipation of the slaves. 1809-1865)
“An idea not coupled with action will never get any bigger than the brain cell it occupied.”
Arnold H. Glasgow
“You don't make progress by standing on the sidelines, whimpering and complaining. You make progress by implementing ideas.”
Shirley Hufsteddler
“The kind of man who wants government to adopt and enforce his ideas is always the kind of man whose ideas are idiotic”
Henry Louis Mencken (American humorous Journalist and Critic of American life who influenced US fiction through the 1920s, 1880-1956)
“The air is full of ideas. They are knocking you in the head all the time. You only have to know what you want, then forget it, and go about your business. Suddenly, the idea will come through. It was there all the time.”
Henry Ford (American industrialist and pioneer of the assembly-line production method, 1863-1947)
“A mediocre idea that generates enthusiasm will go further than a great idea that inspires no one.”
Mary Kay Ash (American businesswoman, She founded Mary Kay Cosmetics (1963). b.1915)
“Capital isn't that important in business. Experience isn't that important. You can get both of these things. What is important is ideas.”
Harvey S. Firestone (American industrialist founder of the Firestone Tire & Rubber Co.,1868-1938)
