A good idea is never lost. Even though its originator or possessor may die it will someday be reborn in the mind of another. Accordingly my principal business is giving commercial value to the brilliant but misdirected ideas of others.
A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke or worried to death by a frown on the right persons brow.
Show me the man you honor and I will show you the kind of a man you are for it shows me what your ideal of manhood is and what kind of a man you long to be.
Now ideas are the raw material of progress. Everything first takes shape in the form of an idea. But an idea itself is worth nothing. An idea like a machine must have power applied to it before it can accomplish anything. The men who have won fame and fortune through having an idea are those who devoted every ounce of their strength and every dollar they could muster to putting it into operation. Ford had a big idea but he had to sweat and suffer and sacrifice to make it work.
(but in rebuttal) When however the lay public rallies round an idea that is denounced by distinguished but elderly scientists and supports that idea with great fervor and emotion the distinguished but elderly scientists are then after all probably right.
I am interested in the shape of ideas even if I do not believe in them. There is a wonderful sentence in Augustine … Do not despair: one of the thieves was saved; do not presume: one of the thieves was damned. That sentence had a wonderful shape. It is the shape that matters.
The vast majority of human beings dislike and even dread all notions with which they are not familiar. Hence it comes about that at their first appearance innovators have always been derided as fools and madmen.
He who receives an idea from me receives instruction for himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine receives light without darkening me.
When ideas fail words come in very handy.
On Western civilization: I think it would be a good idea.
He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.
In a war of ideas it is people who get killed.
Ideas wont keep; something must be done about them.
Dont worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good youll have to ram them down peoples throats.
A good idea is never lost. Even though its originator or possessor may die it will someday be reborn in the mind of another. Accordingly my principal business is giving commercial value to the brilliant but misdirected ideas of others.
There is nothing worse than a brilliant image of a fuzzy concept.
Words are often seen hunting for an idea but ideas are never seen hunting for words.
A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke or worried to death by a frown on the right persons brow.
I cant understand why people are frightened of new ideas. Im frightened of the old ones.
Show me the man you honor and I will show you the kind of a man you are for it shows me what your ideal of manhood is and what kind of a man you long to be.
No folly is more costly than the folly of intolerant idealism.
The wise only possess ideas; the greater part of mankind are possessed by them.
Now ideas are the raw material of progress. Everything first takes shape in the form of an idea. But an idea itself is worth nothing. An idea like a machine must have power applied to it before it can accomplish anything. The men who have won fame and fortune through having an idea are those who devoted every ounce of their strength and every dollar they could muster to putting it into operation. Ford had a big idea but he had to sweat and suffer and sacrifice to make it work.
Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than in the one where they sprang up.
Be more severe to ideas than to actions; do not over look the strength of the bad cause or the weakness of the good.
Not to engage in the pursuit of ideas is to live like ants instead of men.
Ideas as distinguished from events are never unprecedented.
(but in rebuttal) When however the lay public rallies round an idea that is denounced by distinguished but elderly scientists and supports that idea with great fervor and emotion the distinguished but elderly scientists are then after all probably right.
An idea can turn to dust or magic depending on the talent that rubs against it.
I am interested in the shape of ideas even if I do not believe in them. There is a wonderful sentence in Augustine … Do not despair: one of the thieves was saved; do not presume: one of the thieves was damned. That sentence had a wonderful shape. It is the shape that matters.
Intellectuals are people who believe that ideas are of more importance than values. That is to say their own ideas and other peoples values.
There is no adequate defense except stupidity against the impact of a new idea.
Money never starts an idea; it is the idea that starts the money.
The people who oppose your ideas are inevitably those who represent the established order that your ideas will upset.’08-02-2010
Get a good idea and stay with it. Dog it and work at it until its done right.
It is a lesson which all history teaches wise men to put trust in ideas and not in circumstances.
Ideas are fatal to caste.
Idealism increases in direct proportion to ones distance from the problem.
No idea is so antiquated that it was not once modern; no idea is so modern that it will not someday be antiquated.
An idea not coupled with action will never get any bigger than the brain cell it occupied.
I has a great idea this morning but I didnt like it.
Very simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds.
Acting on a good idea is better than just having a good idea.
Nobody can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own.
All achievements all earned riches have their beginning in an idea.
The real Antichrist is he who turns the wine of an original idea into the water of mediocrity.
A man?s mind stretched by a new idea can never go back to its original dimensions.
An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy to be called an idea at all.
The vast majority of human beings dislike and even dread all notions with which they are not familiar. Hence it comes about that at their first appearance innovators have always been derided as fools and madmen.
You can have brilliant ideas but if you cant get them across your ideas wont get you anywhere.
An idea to be suggestive must come to the individual with the force of a revelation.
He who receives an idea from me receives instruction for himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine receives light without darkening me.
Every form of addiction is bad no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol or morphine or idealism.
The public interest is best served by the free exchange of ideas.
A man may die nations may rise and fall but an idea lives on.
If a man hasnt discovered something he will die for he isnt fit to live.
You cant crush ideas by suppressing them. You can only crush them by ignoring them.
Some ideas are so stupid that only an intellectual could believe them.