Idea Quotes

If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange these apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas.

If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange these apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas.

If you’re going to do this kind of life pursuit, you should solve something other than stylistic issues.

Reporter: What do you think of western civilization? Mahatma Gandhi: I think it would be a good idea.

When ideas fail, words come in very handy.

Great companies must have a noble cause. Then it’s the leader’s job to transform that noble cause into such an inspiring vision that it will attract the most talented people in the world to want to join it.

When you first start off trying to solve a problem, the first solutions you come up with are very complex, and most people stop there. But if you keep going, and live with the problem and peel more layers of the onion off, you can often times arrive at some very elegant and simple solutions. Most people just don’t put in the time or energy to get there.

إذا أتتك فكره فدونها، فقد لاتسنح لك الفرصة لتذكرها بعد ذلك

Ideas can come from anywhere, they are the vital spark that starts the writing process. One of the best ways of deciding whether you’ve got a good idea fora movie is to ask yourself one simple question: “If someone else had written this
story, would I get on a bus, go down to the cinema and pay to watch it?”

There is only one thing stronger than all the armies of the world: and that is an idea whose time has come.

Creativity: The process of having original ideas that have value.

Sometimes you have to keep ideas for decades before they have any use.

I've no idea where ideas come from and I hope I never find out, it would spoil the excitement for me if it turned out I just have a funny little wrinkle on the surface of my brain which makes me think about invisible train platforms.

A poem is no place for an idea.

Great minds discuss idea; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.

A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on

In science the credit goes to the man who convinces the world, not to the man to whom the idea first occurs.

Nothing is more dangerous than an idea, when you have only one idea.

An idea's obsolete as soon as you've said it.

At the moment it's just a Notion, but with a bit of backing I think I could turn it into a Concept, and then an Idea.