Ideas become powerful only if they appear in the flesh; an idea which does not lead to action by the individual and by groups remains at best a paragraph or a footnote in a book – provided the idea is original and relevant. It is like a seed stored in a dry place. If the […]
Ideas Quotes
An idea is always a generalization, and generalization is a property of thinking. To generalize means to think.
The people who oppose your ideas are inevitably those who represent the established order that your ideas will upset.
Ideas control the world.
Ideas move fast when their time comes.
It is our function to keep in view and to command the movement of ideas, which are not the effect but the cause of public events.
There is no adequate defense, except stupidity, against the impact of a new idea.
For every person who thinks up a magnificent breakthrough idea, there are a hundred who are nothing more than mindless and unimportant implementers of the idea. The reason for the imbalance in numbers is that the implementers tend to kill the people with the great ideas in order to cut down on the workload. (“Dilbert”)
A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a quip and worried to death by a frown on the right man’s brow.
Not to engage in this pursuit of ideas is to live like ants instead of like men.
