When you write down your ideas you automatically focus your full attention on them. Few if any of us can write one thought and think another at the same time. Thus a pencil and paper make excellent concentration tools. – Michael Leboeuf
There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time has come. – Victor Hugo
Let your working ideas go for a picnic — sometimes the fresh air and ant bites are just what they need. Many great ideas were bitten a little at the beginning. – Terri Guillemets
Dont worry about people stealing an idea. If its original, you will have to ram it down their throats. – Howard Aiken
Nothing is more dangerous than an idea, when it is the only idea we have. – Henri Alban-Fournier
Eureka! Ive got it. – Archimedes
Ideas, as distinguished from events, are never unprecedented. – Hannah Arendt
A mediocre idea that guarantees enthusiasm will go further than a great idea that inspires no one. – Mary Kay Ash
The idea is in my head to put it down is nothing. – Milton Avery
An idea is never given to you without you being given the power to make it reality. You must, nevertheless, suffer for it. – Richard Bach
Ideas are invented only as correctives to the past. Through repeated rectification of this kind one may hope to disengage an idea that is valid. – Gaston Bachelard
Ideas are refined and multiplied in the commerce of minds. In their splendor, images effect a very simple communion of souls. – Gaston Bachelard
In every great time there is some one idea at work which is more powerful than any other, and which shapes the events of the time and determines their ultimate issues. – Francis Bacon
Take the obvious, add a cupful of brains, a generous pinch of imagination, a bucketful of courage and daring, stir well and bring to a boil. – Bernard Baruch
New ideas come into this world somewhat like falling meteors, with a flash and an explosion, and perhaps somebody – Sarah Bernhardt
A good idea plus capable men cannot fail; it is better than money in the bank. – John Berry
We like to test things… no matter how good an idea sounds, test it first. – Henry Block
It is the nature of thought to find its way into action. – Christian Nevell Bovee
The most important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them. – Sir William Bragg
So long as new ideas are created, sales will continue to reach new highs. – Dorothea Brande
