“Million dollar ideas are a dime a dozen. The determination to see the idea through is what s priceless.”
“Some ideas take you to the stars; some sinks you to the mud!”
“Certaines choses que Napoléon dit des femmes, plusieurs discussiions sur le mérite des romans à la mode sous son règne lui donnèrent alors, pour la première fois, quelques idées que tout autre jeune home de son age aurait eues depuis longtemps.”
“The movies remind me of the Triangle Club at Princeton. I used to belong to it, and we always started out firm in our decision to create new and startling things. We always ended up by producing the same old show. In the beginning, our enthusiasm and ideals discarded as rubbish all the old fossilized plots.”
“Hope is not some abstract, softheaded concept. It is an idea with an engine.”
“From the port of ideas, not only the most clever ones put out to sea and conquer the world but also the most stupid ones do this!”
“Living in a bookshop is like living in a warehouse of explosives. Those shelves are ranked with the most furious combustibles in the world--the brains of men.”
“When we have learnt to call storms, storms, and death, death, and birth, birth, when we have mastered the sailor s horn-book and Mr Piddington s law of cyclones, Ellis s anatomy and Lewer s midwifery, we have already made ourself half blind. We have become hypnotized by words and names. We think in words and names, not in ideas; the commonplace has triumphed, the true intellect is half crushed.”
“Today, the world rewards those with creative and intellectual muscles. So, women and skinny men need to shut up and start thinking.”
“Committees kill unconventional ideas for a living.”
“Ideas are cheap. Writing them into a freakin 90k word novel is the hard part.”
“Anyone with a great product to sell should never criticize competing products. Your product should sell on its own merit. Consumers want the best of the best, not the best of a bad situation.”
“Large-scale change is grounded in small steps toward a big idea”
“It is commonly said to my little friend Legion: Read the great writers for style. But I say to him: Read the great dead masters for ideas. Devour them, Fletcherize them, digest, assimilate, make them part of your blood; let the enriched blood visit your brain. The resultant activities will be fairly your own, and the little kinks and convolutions of your brain, which are entirely different from the kinks of any other brain, will furnish you all the style you will ever get. There are no really fresh ideas; just as there is not any fresh air. Air and ideas are refreshed and refreshing, vitalized and vitalizing; but the thoughts have been thought before and the air has been breathed before.”
“True, the initial ideas are in general those of an individual, but the establishment of the reality and truth is in general the work of more than one person.”
“To get fruits from the tree branches, shake them with hands; to get fruits from men, shake them with clever ideas!”
“Create a good idea and leave it in the darkness; you will then see that people will come with the candles in their hands to find it, because just like the bad, the good has also a special scent!”