Idea Quotes

“Wherever I am, if I've got a book with me, I have a place I can go and be happy."

[Harry Potter Beyond the Page: A Virtual Author Visit with J.K. Rowling (Scholastic / Stacks webcast, October 11, 2012)]”
― J.K. Rowling

“An idea is like a rare bird which cannot be seen. What one sees is the trembling of the branch it has just left.”
― Lawrence Durrell

“Occasionally, events in one's life become clearer through the prism of experience, a phrase which simply means that things tend to be clearer as time goes on. For instance, when a person is just born, they usually have no idea what curtains are and spend a great deal of their first months wondering why on earth Mommy and Daddy have hung large pieces of cloth over each window in the nursery. But as the person grows older, the idea of curtains becomes clearer through the prism of experience. The person will learn the word "curtains" and notice that they are actually quite handy for keeping a room dark when it is time to sleep, and for decorating an otherwise boring window area. Eventually, they will entirely accept the idea of curtains of their own, or venetian blinds, and it is all due to the prism of experience.”
― Lemony Snicket, The Austere Academy

“Tell one your thoughts, but beware of two. All know what is known to three”
― Edith Hamilton, Mythology

“Let's make progress, not excuses.”
― Justin Cotillard

“You, whom I have always loved and never found, you whom I expected to see at the end of the rails beyond the horizon—”
― Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

“Your brain is like a plant. If you plant a seed in it, it will grow into a big idea.”
― Jane Kang

“If someone comes to you with an idea its like he is giving you a fragile glass made by himself. If the glass does not match your preference do not throw it away. Give him back otherwise it may hurt the person who made it.”
― Osama Bin Noor

“The average person is in the habit of saying, “The older I get;”’ and he thereby calls the attention of his mind to the idea that he is getting older. In brief, he compels his mind to believe that he is getting older and older, and thereby directs the mind to produce more and more age. The true expression in this connection is, “The longer I live.” This expression calls the mind’s attention to the length of life, which will, in turn, tend to increase the power of that process in you that can prolong life. When people reach the age of sixty or seventy, they usually speak of “the rest of my days,” thus implying the idea that there are only a few more days remaining. The mind is thereby directed to finish life in a short period of time, and accordingly, all the forces of the mind will proceed to work for the speedy termination of personal existence. The correct expression is “from now on,” as, that leads thought into the future indefinitely without impressing the mind with any end whatever.”
― Christian D. Larson

“Your opinion of your mental capacity may be great, but if your idea of intelligence is crude, your intelligence-producing thought will also be crude, and can produce only crude intelligence. It is therefore evident that to simply think that you are brilliant will not produce brilliancy, unless your understanding of brilliancy is made larger, higher and finer. …. When your thinking is brilliant, you will be brilliant, but if your thinking is not brilliant you will not be brilliant, no matter how brilliant you may think you are.”
― Christian D. Larson

“The real battlefield is the realm of ideas.”
― Bryant McGill, Voice of Reason

“You are not really free, and that is why you do not know what I am talking about.”
― Bryant McGill, Voice of Reason

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"Having an idea is not a problem. Identification with the idea creates the problem.”
― Sri Amma Bhagwan.

“Try it out yourself. Test your idea with an experimental project. See what works and what doesn't. Then move forward or move on.”
― Richie Norton, The Power of Starting Something Stupid: How to Crush Fear, Make Dreams Happen, and Live without Regret

“Under the right circumstances, a tiny spark can grow into an inferno that can overcome an entire city. So can an idea.”
― Richard Paul Evans, Lost December

“Love is not an idea, not a feeling, not a sensation, not a sentiment, not a passion, not even an emotion. It is becoming and being not... Ultimate nothingness! Complete self-annihilation!”
― Raheel Farooq

“Maybe we should remember to smile more often. You know, just for the sake of smiling.”
― Gabe Berman, Live Like a Fruit Fly: The Secret You Already Know

“In order to create an idea... to become an idea, it is a necessity for you to believe that it is your own idea. The idea will grow to define your entire life. And when you die... you don't.”
― Lionel Suggs

“I don't really ask myself too much where the ideas come from. When things touch you or anger you, you are moved to want to examine them, to reflect on them. But yes, I guess you could say ['Amour'] is a memento mori, though it would never occur to me to use that term, since it might sound a little bit sentimental.”
― Michael Haneke

“wartość idei w żaden sposób nie zależy od szczerości tego, kto ją głosi. Wprost przeciwnie; istnieje duże prawdopodobieństwo, że im bardziej jest nieszczery, tym bardziej stanowi ona czysty wytwór jego intelektu, nieskażony jego osobistymi potrzebami, pragnieniami czy przesądami.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“If someone wanted to be a runner, you don't tell them to think about running, you tell them to run. And the same simple idea applies to writing, I hope.”
― Markus Zusak

“If your Idea cannot CHANGE the INDUSTRY, you have added no VALUE”
― Fela Durotoye

“Life is too short to plan it, and worse than all, no idea of how short”
― M.F. Moonzajer

“A plan that is not written is just an idea.”
― Dwain Siady

“Ideas can't die, not because they are conceived by humans, but because time begets them.”
― Raheel Farooq

“Whenever you find a good idea, search for the owner to honour him!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“Never reject an idea because you don't have the money, manpower, muscle, or months to achieve it!”
― Syed Ather

“Never reject an idea because it will create conflict!”
― Syed Ather

“Create a good idea and send it to the universe and then let the universe decide itself what to do with it!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“Sí, a veces la idea más absurda, la idea más fantástica en apariencia, se apodera de nosotros con tal fuerza que acabamos por creerla realizable.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky