Henry Ford – “If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses”.
Georgia O’Keefe – “I said to myself, I have things in my head that are not like what anyone has taught me – shapes and ideas so near to me – so natural to my way of being and thinking that it hasn’t occurred to me to put them down. I decided to start anew, to strip away what I had been taught.”
Helen Keller – “College isn’t the place to go for ideas”
Howard Aiken – “Don’t worry about people stealing an idea, if it’s original you’ll have to ram it down their throats.”
Hyman Rickover – “Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into practice with courageous patience.”
J. B. S. Haldane – “So many new ideas are at first strange and horrible, though ultimately valuable, that a very heavy responsibility rests on those that would prevent their dissimenation.”
Oliver Wendall Holmes – “Man’s mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains it’s original dimensions.”
Victor Hugo – “An invasion of armies can be resisted, but army can be resisted but not an idea whose time has come.”
Walter Bagehot – “One of the greatest pains to human nature is the nature of a good idea.”
Oscar Wilde – “An idea that is not dangerous is not worthy of being called an idea.”
Swami Vivekananda – “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 the way that great spiritual giants are produced.”
Andre Malreaux – “Often the difference between a successful person and failure is not one that has better abilities or ideas, but the courage one has to bet on one’s ideas, to take a calculated risk.
Anatole France – “It is by acts, and not ideas, that people live.”
John F. Kennedy – “A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on. Ideas have endurance without death.”
Carl Gustov Jung – “A man is in love with his own ideas”
Daniel Burton – “If you have a story to tell, an idea to communicate, or a service to promote, narrative art is the way to do it.”