IDEAs: 20 more quotes

Part 1

21.“We often refuse to accept an idea merely because the tone of voice in which it has been expressed is unsympathetic to us.”- Friedrich Nietzche

22. “I know quite certainly that I myself have no special talent. Curiosity, obsession and dogged endurance, combined with self-criticism, have brought me to my ideas.” – Albert Einstein

23.“A pile of rocks ceases to be a rock when somebody contemplates it with the idea of a cathedral in mind.” – Antoine St. Exupery

24. “If you want to kill any idea in the world, get a committee working on it.” – Charles Kettering

25.“Right now it’s only a notion, but I think I can get the money to make it into a concept, and later turn it into an idea.” – Woody Allen

26. “I begin with an idea and then it becomes something else.” – Pablo Picasso

27.“New ideas pass through three periods: 1) It can’t be done; 2) It probably can be done, but it’s not worth doing; 3) I knew it was a good idea all along!” – Arthur C. Clarke

28. “Almost all really new ideas have a certain aspect of foolishness when they are just produced.” – Alfred North Whitehead

29.“Adults are always asking little kids what they want to be when they grow up because they’re looking for ideas.” – Paula Poundstone

30. “If I have a thousand ideas and only one turns out to be good, I am satisfied.” – Alfred Noble

31.“Money never starts an idea; it is the idea that starts the money.” – William J. Cameron

32. “No idea is so outlandish that it should not be considered.” – Winston Churchill

33.“If you are possessed by an idea, you find it expressed everywhere, you even smell it.” – Thomas Mann

34. “The ability to express an idea is well nigh as important as the idea itself.” – Bernard Baruch

35.“You can kill a man, but you can’t kill an idea.” – Medgar Evers

36. “The man with a new idea is a crank — until the idea succeeds.” -Mark Twain

37.“An idea is salvation by imagination.” – Frank Lloyd Wright

38. “I can’t understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I’m frightened of the old ones.” – John Cage

39.“The new idea either finds a champion or it dies. No ordinary involvement with a new idea provides the energy required to cope with the indifference and resistance that change provokes.” – Tom Peters

40. “Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward: they may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.” – Goethe

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