Quotes about Great Ideas

Great ideas originate in the muscles. Votes: 2

A soul occupied with great ideas performs small duties. Votes: 2

Great ideas have no attachment to either money or class. Votes: 2

A soul preoccupied with great ideas best performs small duties. Votes: 2

Style and Structure are the essence of a book; great ideas are hogwash. Votes: 2

I love working with Darren Lynn Bousman. He is such a cool director with really great ideas. Votes: 2

I am convinced that great ideas that are powerfully presented can change a mind in five minutes. Votes: 2

You ask me if I keep a notebook to record my great ideas. I've only ever had one. Votes: 2

Architecture has recorded the great ideas of the human race. Not only every religious symbol, but every human thought has its page in that vast book. Votes: 2

A great idea is usually original to more than one discoverer. Great ideas come when the world needs them. Great ideas surround the world's ignorance and press for admission. Votes: 2

My creative side is identifying all these great entrepreneurial creative people that come up with great ideas, whether they are in fashion or technology or a new tool to improve ourselves. Votes: 2

Research your idea. See if there's a demand. A lot of people have great ideas, but they don't know if there's a need for it. You also have to research your competition. Votes: 2

Not every innovation in transportation is going to come from government or even a large enterprise. There are smart people out there with tools and skills to come up with great ideas. Votes: 2

I used to want to be a children's writer, because I would have all these great ideas when I was little, and I'd write them and draw them, and turn them into class. Votes: 2

Universities think people come up with great ideas by closing the door. The academic tenure process, where you have to publish to journals which are very narrow, stands in the way of great research. Votes: 2

There was absolutely no intention of splitting up. We had so many great ideas to use on the new album. John Paul Jones was incredible, coming to the studio each day with new instruments to play. Votes: 2

It may be easily shown, and is of no small significance, that the two great ideas of which the Anglo-Saxon is the exponent are having a fuller development in the United States than in Great Britain. Votes: 2

I think students should know something about religion as a historical phenomenon, in the same way that they should know something about socialism and humanism and the other great ideas that have shaped political philosophies and therefore the course of human events. Votes: 2

Ideas must be put to the test. That's why we make things, otherwise they would be no more than ideas. There is often a huge difference between an idea and its realisation. I've had what I thought were great ideas that just didn't work. Votes: 2

I have great ideas, but the follow through is always really difficult for me. As my kid gets a little bit older, if I feel like I have a little bit more time on my hands, I'd like to get more into developing ideas and writing things. Votes: 2

From the political angle, I'm trying to be apolitical if you will. I mean people say, 'Are you a red state or blue state?', I say, 'I'm purple.' I think there are great ideas on both sides of the aisle and neither side has cornered the market. Votes: 2

If you have a great day at work and you've been hit with all these great ideas and there's a lot of excitement on your team, your mind doesn't turn off. For years I've kept a pad of paper and pen by me at night, because things just occur to you. Votes: 2

It is not sufficient for the young to devote their enthusiasm, their courage, their ambition, their self-sacrifice to the great ideas of the time; the young must not only preserve but increase their powers if they are to be really equal to their eternal task: that of drawing the age in advance. Votes: 2

Being on a successful show is kind of like being a sea turtle. Every year, sea turtles lay hundreds and hundreds of eggs, but only a few manage to survive and mature. It's the same with TV pilots. There are so many great ideas, but for whatever reason only the lucky ones get picked up. Votes: 2

I'm of the mindset that most people who have kids are, which is, 'Hey, I want another me. I like me. I'm pretty cool, and I've got really great ideas, and the way I think is the right way to think. Let's put another one of me out there.' So I'll have kids one day. Votes: 2

The money to fund great things and innovations and programs is gone in our lifetime; it's all gone to debt. So we won't be able to solve global warming or have the transportation that we needed for the 21st century. We should be supporting people with great ideas, but it's gone, and now it's gotta be paid back with interest to banks in China. Votes: 2

All great ideas are dangerous. Votes: 0

Great ideas are not charitable. Votes: 0

Money is attracted to great ideas. Votes: 0

Great men may die, but there ideas won't. Votes: 0

Great ideas need landing gear as well as wings. Votes: 0

If artists do have ideas, they're often not great. Votes: 0

We have always been shameless about stealing great ideas. Votes: 0

A genius is a man who has two great ideas. Votes: 0

Great ideas come into the world as gently as doves. Votes: 0

When sparks fly, some truly great ideas come to light. Votes: 0

You build your program from the ideas of great coaches. Votes: 0

Inspiration is the seed of imagination, where great ideas bloom Votes: 0

Ridicule has historically proven itself a rickety fence for great ideas. Votes: 0

Ideas are great arrows, but there has to be a bow. Votes: 0

A great idea is simply the combination of many good ideas. Votes: 0

There's no shortage of great ideas. There's a shortage of execution. Votes: 0

Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people. Votes: 0

Great companies don't throw money at problems, they throw ideas at problems. Votes: 0

Commerce is the great civilizer. We exchange ideas when we exchange fabrics. Votes: 0

The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas. Votes: 0

Great ideas can come from anywhere. There are no titles around an idea. Votes: 0

Great minds with great ideas usually share in the midst of their persecution Votes: 0

In life, a lot of great ideas sound insane or absurd at first. Votes: 0

The great accomplishments of man have resulted from the transmission of ideas and enthusiasm. Votes: 0

Discover the great ideas that lie inside you by discovering the power of sleep. Votes: 0

Even though you're a member of the wrong party, you've got some great ideas... Votes: 0

Great thinkers often learn, to their surprise, that new ideas are less than welcome. Votes: 0

I feel that the great challenge of our time is the communication of ideas. Votes: 0

Some of us have great original ideas and some of us depend on adaptations. Votes: 0

We all have great ideas. No one ever says, "I've got this terrible idea." Votes: 0

Poor minds talk about people average minds talk about events great minds talk about ideas Votes: 0

I've worked with a lot of great directors and often times they solicit your ideas. Votes: 0

I have found that great ideas come when you have a great desire to have them. Votes: 0

If you can get good at destroying your own wrong ideas, that is a great gift. Votes: 0

Great people talk about ideas, average people talk about things, and small people talk about wine. Votes: 0

Rules are a great way to get ideas. All you have to do is break them. Votes: 0

That's the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you. Votes: 0

Inside the calm minds, great ideas swim serenely like the morning geese of the misty lakes! Votes: 0

The great thing about the Internet is, it's the freest marketplace of ideas that there is. Votes: 0

It is the compelling power of great thoughts and ideas to engender phrases of equal size. Votes: 0

I know how to take good ideas and turn them into sensible law at great odds. Votes: 0

Great people talk about ideas, average people talk about things, and small people talk about wine." Votes: 0

History is a great cemetery: men, deeds, ideas are always dying as soon as they are born. Votes: 0

I think social media is a great place to share ideas and to connect with other people. Votes: 0

It's fun to be loose. Just like on stage, all of your great ideas come from looseness. Votes: 0

Cheap is the last refuge of a product developer or marketer who is out of great ideas. Votes: 0

There are two kinds of great power which can shake the earth: Mega earthquakes and big ideas! Votes: 0

Of course great hotels have always been social ideas, flawless mirrors to the particular societies they service. Votes: 0

We need innovation. We need great ideas that can be simply and effectively produced all over the place. Votes: 0

The great majority of men use their own short-sighted ideas as a yardstick for measuring the divine omnipotence. Votes: 0

The religion itself may have some great ideas, but I can't take it seriously if it's blatantly exclusionary. Votes: 0

Many great ideas go unexecuted, and many great executioners are without ideas. One without the other is worthless. Votes: 0

When people feel trusted, they'll begin to understand they are contributors--and you'll get great ideas and happy people. Votes: 0

To defeat all their enemies and be victorious! This is the unpreventable destiny of all the great ideas! Votes: 0

The ideas of the great playwrights are almost always larger than the experiences of even the best actors. Votes: 0

The seeds of greatness are ideas you learn from people who've been great in their service to others. Votes: 0

All great ideas start as weird ideas. What now seems obvious, early on, is not obvious to anybody. Votes: 0

Great ideas travel slowly, and for a time noiselessly, as the gods whose feet were shod with wool. Votes: 0

In order to go beyond ideas to direct realization, it's essential to have a great deal of purity. Votes: 0

A great idea can change the world; but to change the universe, men need even much greater ideas! Votes: 0

My great fear is not that I'll run out of ideas. It's that I'll run out of time. Votes: 0

Ideas are great arrows, but there has to be a bow. And politics is the bow of idealism. Votes: 0

Great ideas behave like the Sun. Even in the middle of nowhere, they find people and shine on them! Votes: 0

The essence of influence is pull. It's an attraction. Great influencers attract people, to themselves, and to their ideas. Votes: 0

I'm not a sponge exactly, but I find that something I look at is a great opportunity for ideas. Votes: 0

To make something really great and different and interesting means taking risks and following these ideas in your head. Votes: 0

New materials are one of the great afflictions of contemporary art. Some artists confuse new materials with new ideas. Votes: 0

Any leader who asks the right questions of the right people has the potential to discover and develop great ideas. Votes: 0

Socrates, in Plato, formulates ideas of order: the Iliad, like Shakespeare, knows that a violent disorder is a great order. Votes: 0

Heaven often protects valuable souls charged with great secrets, great ideas, by long shutting them up with their own thoughts. Votes: 0

Seeing other people do great work is its own form of inspiration and far more powerful than borrowing their ideas. Votes: 0

Great actors try to dismiss all ideas from their conscious mind in order to provide an experience that is real. Votes: 0

A free society cherishes nonconformity. It knows from the non-conformist, from the eccentric, have come many of the great ideas. Votes: 0

Expertise is great, but it has a bad side effect: It tends to create the inability to accept new ideas. Votes: 0

Every great religion is, in truth, a concentration of great ideas, capable, as all ideas are, of infinite expansion and adaptation. Votes: 0

What's most important in animation is the emotions and the ideas being portrayed. I'm a great believer of energy and emotion. Votes: 0

We have the divinity of our great misery. And our solitude, with its toilsome ideas, tears and laughter, is fatally divine. Votes: 0

I think ideas are still the most powerful things on the planet, and music is a great way to transmit them. Votes: 0

The unluckiest insolvent in the world is the man whose expenditure of speech is too great for his income of ideas. Votes: 0

Small minds cannot grasp great ideas; to their narrow comprehension, their purblind vision, nothing seems really great and important but themselves. Votes: 0

Einstein was a great advocate of the notion that good ideas look absurd at the beginning. Camus expressed a similar view. Votes: 0

Small minds cannot grasp great ideas; to their narrow comprehension, their purblind vision, nothing seems really great and important but themselves. Votes: 0

I really don't want to copy something to a great degree, but I love taking tiny ideas and putting them together. Votes: 0

One of my philosophies as a director is to listen to other people's great ideas because they'll help make you better. Votes: 0

Ideas are the great warriors of the world, and a war that has no idea behind it, is simply a brutality. Votes: 0

This was a time of great intellectual excitement for me. Both college and law school opened up new worlds of ideas. Votes: 0

I've had really great experiences working with first-time directors. They come at filmmaking with fresh ideas. I've been very lucky that way. Votes: 0

Men who accomplish great things in the industrial world are the ones who have faith in the money producing power of ideas. Votes: 0

To die for one's great ideas is glorious - and easy. The horror is to outlive them. That is our worst capability. Votes: 0

How you frame an issue shapes how it is viewed by others. Great advocates frame their ideas as problems that need solutions. Votes: 0

Picasso had a saying - 'good artists copy, great artists steal' - and we have always been shameless about stealing great ideas. Votes: 0

The idea, which constitutes the actual being of the human mind, is not simple, but compounded of a great number of ideas. Votes: 0

Little minds think and talk about people. Average minds think and talk about things and actions. Great minds think and talk about ideas. Votes: 0

It's difficult for a company to be anywhere interesting in a world that is so dominated by prototypes and great and bright ideas. Votes: 0

It's hard for me to know. I'll think, 'I really brought off my ideas, it's great,' and no one sparks to it Votes: 0

Great ideas come from everywhere if you just listen and look for them. You never know who's going to have a great idea. Votes: 0

Republicans are as capable of coming up with great ideas and moving this country along as anyone - they just don't do it. Votes: 0

Do you know that all great spurts in...progress came just after some unorthodox ideas or exotic impressions had penetrated into a closed system? Votes: 0

Charlie Chaplin, too, through spectacle, contraband certain ideas, put them through, ideas that even today are not being expressed by great statesmen and politicians. Votes: 0

The responsibility of leadership is not to come up with all the ideas but to create an environment in which great ideas can thrive. Votes: 0

Great ideas are fish in a stream. Your pen/pencil is a spear. If you don't spear them, they'll swim on by. Be ready. Votes: 0

The great thing about living in New York is the constant change of things. It inspires me to keep moving, push forward, question ideas. Votes: 0

All great ideas should be followed by an exclamation mark - a warning signal similar to the skull and crossbones drawn on high-voltage transformers. Votes: 0

One of the great cliches of campaign journalism is the notion that American elections have long since ceased to be about issues and ideas. Votes: 0

The explosion in the number of available personal services says a great deal about changing ideas of what we can reasonably expect from whom. Votes: 0

In the advertising business, a good idea can inspire a great commercial. But a good insight can fuel a thousand ideas, a thousand commercials. Votes: 0

A great discovery is a fact whose appearance in science gives rise to shining ideas, whose light dispels many obscurities and shows us new paths. Votes: 0

Traveling and other cultures provide me with great inspiration, especially unusual people and cultures totally unlike my own. They generate many new ideas for me. Votes: 0

Taken over the centuries, scientific ideas have exerted a force on our civilization fully as great as the more tangible practical applications of scientific research. Votes: 0

I don't think Philadelphia's challenge is in coming up with great ideas or having great founders. I think the real challenge is keeping them here. Votes: 0

We are always looking for a grand program of action full of great ideas, when the thing is to begin by obeying the little ideas. Votes: 0

There's at least a hundred times more people with great ideas than people that are willing to put in the effort to execute them well. Votes: 0

The genius of democracies is seen not only in the great number of new words introduced but even more in the new ideas they express. Votes: 0

What I notice about people who are gifted in filmmaking is that they're great thinkers. They engage with big ideas and they engage with people. Votes: 0

The change of the binominal system is without a doubt, a great advancement, it will allow us to be better represented and have better ideas. Votes: 0

There was no single moment when I thought, Aha! What a great idea! Rather there was a slow and gradual accumulation of numerous small ideas. Votes: 0

I think the great thing about theatre, and if you start in theatre, is that it does build a confidence in poetic themes and ideas. Votes: 0

Men of ideas and men of action have much to learn from each other, and the truly great are men of both action and abstraction. Votes: 0

No, everyone has great ideas, but what makes a difference, especially online, or just in life, is actually doing it; getting that first version out there. Votes: 0

Words, when well chosen, have so great a force in them, that a description often gives us more lively ideas than the sight of things themselves. Votes: 0

If you want to hire great people and have them stay, you have to be run by ideas, not hierarchy. The best ideas have to win. Votes: 0

Almost always, great new ideas don't emerge from within a single person or function, but at the intersection of functions or people that have never met before. Votes: 0

In the history of medicine, it is not always the great scientist or the learned doctor who goes forward to discover new fields, new avenues, new ideas. Votes: 0

History is littered with people who came up with great ideas and saw others profit from them. You need to make sure you don't join their ranks. Votes: 0

Traveling did a great deal to me. I found that when I travel and just sit in the corner and watch, a million ideas come to me. Votes: 0

I enjoy reading about the lives of musicians, and find many similarities in their ideas of preparation and their utter devotion to this great, eternal language: music. Votes: 0

The more entrepreneurs in the world that are getting their ideas financed, the more great companies there are going to be that we can all invest in. Votes: 0

The story of practically every great fortune starts with the day when a creator of ideas and a seller of ideas got together and worked in harmony. Votes: 0

Almost always, great new ideas don't emerge from within a single person or function, but at the intersection of functions or people that have never met before. Votes: 0

Almost always great new ideas don't emerge from within a single person or function, but at the intersection of functions or people that have never met before. Votes: 0

Recovery challenges the established order and as such, is a 'great idea' along with the ideas of evolution or a 'round earth'; turning all our thinking upside down. Votes: 0

Ads which ran 30-50 years ago, even a hundred years ago, are often better than those you see today. You'll get great ideas to use in your marketing. Votes: 0

Watch yourself. Every minute we change. It is a great opportunity. At any point, we can step out of our frozen selves and our ideas and begin fresh. Votes: 0

I'm always looking for directors who are very strong, they have great ideas, but on the other hand, that need help. It means they rely mostly on my eyes. Votes: 0

The close relationships we form between researchers and product groups have already shown we can move the great ideas as they come along, without a schedule, into the products. Votes: 0

There are a lot of people building small ideas now. There's an idealization of being an entrepreneur, but the most important thing is to have a really great idea. Votes: 0

Competition is a great thing and critically important in any industry. I respect the companies that build their brand through innovation/great product, packaging, sharp marketing and clever ideas. Votes: 0

We should have a great fewer disputes in the world if words were taken for what they are, the signs of our ideas only, and not for things themselves. Votes: 0

There has always been this narrator in me - I loved ideas, and part of the great love affair I would have with ideas consisted of talking about them. Votes: 0

The belief that you have a great idea is not worth cuckoo spit. Ideas are ten a penny while the ability to execute counts for a great deal more. Votes: 0

A great mix of tips, tricks, and anecdotes, All is Forgiven, Move On has excellent ideas for your weight loss journey and for improving your life along the way! Votes: 0

A great idea is usually original to more than one discoverer. Great ideas come when the world needs them. Great ideas surround the world's ignorance and press for admission. Votes: 0

Blade Runner was the godfather of all these fantastic movies that occur today. What's frustrating is that we're short of really great writing and great ideas. Blade Runner was full of them. Votes: 0

Safety is a basic human need. People with a sense of security and belonging are stabilized for learning, creating, innovating. A group of wonderfully cared for, confident individuals will generate great ideas. Votes: 0

You can have many great ideas in your head, but what makes the difference is the action. Without action upon an idea, there will be no manifestation, no results, and no reward Votes: 0

You can have many great ideas in your head, but what makes the difference is the action. Without action upon an idea, there will be no manifestation, no results, and no reward Votes: 0

I love thinking, I love coming up with great ideas. I just get excited. Sometimes if I get a big idea, I'm just like a kid, like I've found a new toy. Votes: 0

[mannerism is when] you think you have all these great ideas, and none of them are good at the end of the day. But while you are pursuing those other things subconsciously happen. Votes: 0

I call it predicament humor. You don't do anything that cuts the star off at the knees or worse. You make him intelligent; you give him great ideas and great things to do. Votes: 0

I guess it's a bit cliché, but as an actor, I really admire good writing. There are a lot of great ideas out there, but it's the execution that really makes it work. Votes: 0

Senior men have no monopoly on great ideas. Nor do creative people. Some of the best ideas come from account executives, researchers and others. Encourage this, you need all the ideas you can get. Votes: 0