Sunday, March 9, 2008

10 Short Quotes about Ideas

350228749_f979eb4f17_m 1. Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen. ~ John Steinbeck

2. He can compress the most words into the smallest ideas of any man I ever met. ~ Abraham Lincoln

3. Ideals are like stars: you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the ocean desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them, you reach your destiny. ~ Carl Schurz

4. There are only two kinds of scholars; those who love ideas and those who hate them. ~ Emile Chartier

5. Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together. ~ Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

6. To die for an idea; it is unquestionably noble. But how much nobler it would be if men died for ideas that were true! ~ H. L. Mencken
7. Do something. If it doesn't work, do something else. No idea is too crazy. ~ Jim Hightower,

8. I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones. ~ John Cage

9. It is by acts and not by ideas that people live. ~ Anatole France

10. Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle. ~ Ken Hakuta