Ideas Quotes – Reflections on Creativity and Thought

"I just had a crazy, wild imagination all my life, and science fiction is the greatest outlet for me."

Steven Spielberg

"To even begin to understand what is currently happening in the world, one must be open to the idea of unlearning almost everything one has learned."

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"The value of an idea lies in its implementation."

Thomas Alva Edison

"You can recognize a good idea by the fact that it gets stolen."

Gerhard Uhlenbruck

"I am more of a sponge than an inventor. I absorb ideas from every source. I take half-matured schemes for mechanical development and make them practical. I am a sort of a middleman between the long-haired and impractical inventor and the hard-headed business man who measures all things in terms of dollars and cents. My principal business is giving commercial value to the brilliant but misdirected ideas of others."

Thomas Alva Edison

"Ideas are the beginning points of all fortunes."

Napoleon Hill

"Without leaps of imagination or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all is a form of planning."

Gloria Marie Steinem

"When language in common use in any country becomes irregular and depraved, it is followed by their ruin and degradation. For what do terms used without skill or meaning, which are at once corrupt and misapplied, denote but a people listless, supine, and ripe for servitude?"

John Milton

"Good ideas are always crazy until they're not."

Lawrence Edward Page

"A mediocre idea that generates enthusiasm will go further than a great idea that inspires no one."

Mary Kay Ash

"Technology feeds on itself. Technology makes more technology possible."

Alvin Toffler

"Some people reject a good idea simply because it's not theirs."

Luis Buñuel Portolés

"Ideas are easy. Implementation is difficult."

Guy Kawasaki

"I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work."

Thomas Alva Edison

"Innovation is saying no to a thousand things."

Steve Jobs

"By extricating 'reality' from mind, materialism has sent the significance of nature into exile. With the pathetic grin of hubris stamped on our foolish faces, we carefully unwrap the package and then proceed to throw away its contents whileb proudly storing the empty box on the altar of our ontology. What a huge stash of empty boxes have we accumulated! Idols of stupidity they are; public reminders of a state of affairs that would be hilarious if it weren't tragic."

Bernardo Kastrup

"Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works."

Steve Jobs

"The thinker dies, but his thoughts are beyond the reach of destruction. Men are mortal; but ideas are immortal."

Walter Lippmann