"I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of old ones."
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-- John Cage 5/12/2006
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"The possibility thinker looks at every idea to see if it has possibilities. If it does, he takes an option out on the idea. He doesn't let it slip by.
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-- Robert H. Schuller 3/4/2005
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"Money flows to good ideas; good ideas spawn other good ideas."
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-- Robert H. Schuller 3/4/2005
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"Never underestimate the value of an idea. Every positive idea has within its potential for success if it is managed properly."
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-- Robert H. Schuller 3/4/2005
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"The difference between the people at the top of the ladder and those at… the bottom is so basic. The people at the top have learned how to handle good ideas, but those who stay in the middle or the bottom… have never learned to catch, harbor and handle creative thoughts."
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-- Robert H. Schuller 3/4/2005
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"What bright ideas have passed through our brain that we've let go as if we were standing at the railing of an ocean liner and somebody poured diamonds into our hands and we watch them fall through our fingers into the sea, never to be caught again?"
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-- Robert H. Schuller 3/4/2005
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"Great ideas, it is said, come into the world as gently as doves. Perhaps, then, if we listen attentively, we shall hear amid the uproar of empires and nations a faint flutter of wings; the gentle stirring of life and hope."
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-- Albert Camus 1/28/2005
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"As water by cooling and condensing becomes ice, so thought by condensation assumes physical form. Everything in the universe is thought in material form."
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-- Paramahansa Yogananda 1/28/2005
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"All new ideas come with flaws, but we should encourage people to try to understand the intent behind the idea. If we take a new idea as a beginning point and then focus on the possibilities it presents, we can better see how to adjust those elements that need improvement."
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-- Andrew Papageorge, in GoInnovate! 1/28/2005
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"What's missing isn't the ideas... it's the will to execute them."
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-- Seth Godin 8/4/2004
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"It is better to have enough ideas for some of them to be wrong, than to be always right by having no ideas at all."
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-- Edward de Bono 5/10/2004
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"Everyone who has ever taken a shower has had an idea. It's the person who gets out of the shower, dries off, and does something about it that makes a difference."
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-- Nolan Bushnell 3/16/2004
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"Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward; they may be beaten, but they may start a winning game."
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-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 3/9/2004
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"If at first the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it."
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-- Albert Einstein 2/16/2004
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"Ideas are only as good as your ability to make them happen."
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-- Thinking with Hexagons book, Idon Thinking Resources Ltd. 10/3/2003
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"New ideas come into this world somewhat like falling meteors, with a flash and an explosion, and perhaps somebody's castle roof perforated."
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-- Henry David Thoreau 9/22/2003
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"Scientific research shows that social deprivation has severe negative effects on overall cognitive abilities. That's because social interaction develops our thinking abilities. We not only benefit from the ideas of others, we learn a great deal about our own ideas based on how others react to them."
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-- Marco Marsan, from 'Think Naked' 9/3/2003
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"New to the world ideas rarely come fully formed in a single bolt from the blue. They happen with round after round of refining and recombining ideas."
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-- Marco Marsan, from 'Think Naked' 9/3/2003
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"Most people complain that they aren't creative thinkers. That's because they're lazy thinkers. They get ideas alright, but they stop after their first or second (idea). Thinking is hard work. If it were easy, everybody would be Einstein and nobody would take out the garbage."
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-- Marco Marsan, from 'Think Naked' 9/3/2003
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"A picture is worth a thousand ideas."
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-- Gerald Haman 8/1/2003
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