Ideas

13 quotes.

• Nothing is more dangerous than an idea when it is the only one you have.

  Émile Chartier

• An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.

  Oscar Wilde

• Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.

  Attributed to Eleanor Roosevelt

• A company that wants you to, come up with a smart idea, implement that idea quickly, and learn in the process, has to be willing to cut you some slack.

  Jeffrey Pfeffer

• A mind once stretched by a new idea, never regains its orginal dimension.

  Anonymous

• College isn't the place to go for ideas.

  Helen Keller

• Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats.

  Howard Aiken

• Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.

  John Steinbeck

• The ideas I stand for are not mine. I borrowed them from Socrates. I swiped them from Chesterfield. I stole them from Jesus. If you don't like their rules, whose would you use?

  Dale Carnegie

• The link between ideas and action is rarely direct. There is almost always an intermediate step in which the idea is overcome. De Tocqueville points out that it is at times when passions start to govern human affairs that ideas are most obviously translated into political action.

  Eric Hoffer

• The man who strikes first admits that his ideas have given out.

  Chinese Proverb

• The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

• This is my answer to the gap between ideas and action - I will write it out.

  Hortense Calisher

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