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| Alla stora idéer är farliga. | Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) |
| Tro inte att jag är en av de där jävla radikalerna. Tro inte att jag är emot det Amerikanska systemet. | Al Capone (1899-1947) |
| En idé er ikke ansvarlig for de mennesker, som tror på den. | Donald Marquis (1878-1937) |
| Når vi er trætte, bliver vi angrebet af idéer, som vi nedkæmpede for længe siden. | Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844-1900) |
| Vi nægter ofte at acceptere en idè, udelukkende fordi det tonefald, hvormed den udtrykkes, ikke tiltaler os. | Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844-1900) |
| Med gode ideer er det som med svamp. Hvor man finder en, findes der ofte flere. | Hans Carossa (1878-1956) |
| Der findes ikke én god idé, som ikke allerede er tænkt af mange. En idé, som ikke tidligere er tænkt, bliver derimod sjældent god | Jan Carlzon |
| Det gælder i og for sig ikke om at få så mange ideer som muligt - hver ny idé medfører en vis fortynding af kraften | Jan Carlzon |
| Dristige idéer er som bønder i et skakspil, der bevæger sig frem. De kan slås, men de kan starte et helt nyt spil | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) |
| Ideer er som kaniner. Du får et par stykker og lærer at håndtere dem - og snart har du et dusin. | John Steinbeck (1902-1968) |
| Ideer skal have vinger, men de skal også have fødder til at gå på jorden. | Knud W. Jensen |
| Vær mindre nysgerrighed overfor mennesker og mere nysgerrig overfor idéer. | Mme Marie Curie (1867-1934) |
| Let's trace the birth of an idea. It's born as rampant radicalism, then it becomes progressivism, then liberalism, then it becomes moderated conservative, outmoded, and gone. | Adam Clayton Powell (1908-) |
| A publication depends on a great idea, not there being a market out there. You start with an idea rather than trying to get an idea which goes with that market. | Andrew Heiskell |
| Ideas are a capital that bears interest only in the hands of talent. | Antoine Rivarol |
| You cannot expect the Form before the Idea, For they will come into being together | Arnold Schoenberg |
| New ideas pass through three periods: 1) It can't be done. 2) It probably can be done, but it's not worth doing. 3) I knew it was a good idea all along! | Arthur C. Clarke (1917-) |
| Ideas are the raw material of progress. Everything first takes shape in the form of an idea. But an idea by itself is worth nothing. An idea, like a machine, must have power applied to it before it can accomplish anything. | Barry C. Forbes |
| The old idea of a composer suddenly having a terrific idea and sitting up all night to write it is nonsense. Nighttime is for sleeping. | Benjamin Britten (1913-1976) |
| Ideas? My head is full of them, one after the other, but they serve no purpose there. They must be put down on paper, one after the other. | Camilo Jose Cela (1916-2002) |
| Many a man has cherished for years as his hobby some vague shadow of an idea, too meaningless to be positively false | Charles Sanders Peirce (1839-1914) |
| There is an idea, broadly held on Wall Street, that names with X's are more memorable and tend to capture the attention of analysts. It is not held by us. | Clive Chajet |
| The power of an idea can be measured by the degree of resistance it attracts. | David Yoho |
| The way to get good ideas is to get lots of ideas, and throw the bad ones away | Dr. Linus Pauling (1901-1994) |
| The need to be right all the time is the biggest bar to new ideas. 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. | Edward de Bono |
| Nothing is more dangerous than an idea, when it's the only one you have | Emile-Auguste Chartier (1868-1951) |
| Nothing is more dangerous then having just one idea | Emile-Auguste Chartier (1868-1951) |
| Nothing is more dangerous than an idea when it is the only one you have. | Emile Chartier |
| Ideas came with explosive immediacy, like an instant birth. Human thought is like a monstrous pendulum; it keeps swinging from one extreme to the other. | Eugene Field (1850-1895) |
| I never saw a contradiction between the ideas that sustain me and the ideas of that symbol, of that extraordinary figure [Jesus Christ]. | Fidel Castro (1927-) |
| Painting is a nail to which I fasten my ideas. | Georges Braque (1882-1963) |
| All great ideas are controversial, or have been at one time | George Seldes (1890-) |
| If it's a good idea, go ahead and do it. It's much easier to apologize than it is to get permission. | Grace Murray Hopper (1906-1992) |
| If a man had as many ideas during the day as he does when he has insomnia, he'd make a fortune. | Griff Niblack |
| Capital isn't that important in business. Experience isn't that important. You can get both of these things. What is important is ideas. | Harvey S. Firestone (1868-) |
| I have only the idea I have made of myself to sustain me on oceans of nothingness | Henry de Montherlant (1895-1972) |
| Great ideas are not charitable | Henry de Montherlant (1895-1972) |
| Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats. | Howard Aiken (1900-1973) |
| I began to have an idea of my life, not as slow shaping of achievement to fit my preconceived purposes, but as the gradual discovery and growth of a purpose which I did not know | Joanna Field |
| I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones. | John Cage (1912-1992) |
| Big ideas are so hard to recognize, so fragile, so easy to kill. Don't forget that, all of you who don't have them. | John Elliott, Jr. |
| Ideas shape the course of history. | John Maynard Keynes (1883-1946) |
| Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen. | John Steinbeck (1902-1968) |
| Ideas are more powerful than guns. We would not let our enemies have guns, why should we let them have ideas. | Joseph Stalin (1879-1953) |
| Religion has caused more harm than any other idea since the beginning of time. There's nothing good I can say about it. People use it as a crutch. | Larry Flynt (1942-) |
| The Great Idea in advertising is far more than the sum of the recognition scores, the ratings and all the other superficial indicators of its success; it is in the realm of myth, to which measurements cannot apply. | Leo Bogart |
| Let your thoughts meander towards a sea of ideas. | Leo D. Minnigh |
| I've always had the idea that we were conducting a military operation. It always seemed to me to be in a state of emergency. | Lincoln Kirstein (1907-1996) |
| A man's home is his castle, and his wife is the janitor | Lucille Kallen (1922-) |
| The history of mankind is the history of ideas. | Luigi Pirandello (1867-1936) |
| I am interested in ideas, not merely in visual products | Marcel Duchamp (1887-1968) |
| It terrified me to have an idea that was solely mine to be no longer a part of my mind, but totally public. | Maya Lin (1959-) |
| Man's fear of ideas is probably the greatest dike holding back human knowledge and happiness | Morris Leopold Ernst |
| To say that an idea is fashionable is to say, I think, that is has been adulterated to a point where it is hardly an idea at all | Murray Kempton |
| Everyone who's ever taken a shower has an idea. It's the person who gets out of the shower, dries off and does something about it who makes a difference. | Nolan Bushnell (1943-) |
| A new and valid idea is worth more than a regiment and fewer men can furnish the former than command the latter. | Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. (1841-1935) |
| Adults are always asking little kids what they want to be when they grow up because they're looking for ideas | Paula Poundstone (1959-) |
| We're all so clogged with dead ideas passed from generation to generation that even the best of us don't know the way out | Peter Weiss (1916-) |
| Some people are uncomfortable with the idea that humans belong to the same class of animals as cats and cows and raccoons. They're like the people who become successful and then don't want to be reminded of the old neighborhood. | Phil Donahue (1935-) |
| It is very a dangerous thing to have an idea that you will not practice | Phyllis Bottome (1884-1963) |
| If you are seeking creative ideas, go out walking. Angels whisper to a man when he goes for a walk. | Raymond Inmon |
| Olivier's idea of introspection was to hood his eyes, dentalize his consonants and let the camera circle his blondined head like a sparrow looking for a place to deposit its droppings. | Robert Brustein (1927-) |
| Every new idea looks crazy at first. | Robert Olson |
| It was just a whimsical idea that escalated when so many crazy ladies took it up. | Rudi Gernreich (1922-) |
| Ideas run wild without discussion | Serge Kahili King |
| I will ignore all ideas for new works on engines of war, the invention of which has reached its limits and for whose improvements I see no further hope. | Sextus Julius Frontinus |
| You don't make progress by standing on the sidelines, whimpering and complaining. You make progress by implementing ideas. | Shirley Hufsteddler |
| In the past, those who had ideas they wished to communicate to the public had the unquestioned right to disseminate those ideas in an open marketplace. called a mall, we should not abridge that right. | Sol Wachtler |
| You can't crush ideas by suppressing them. You can only crush them by ignoring them. | Vachel Lindsay (1879-) |
| Ideas, like individuals, live and die. They flourish, according to their nature, in one soil or climate and droop in another. They are the vegetation of the mental world. | William MacNeile Dixon |
| Almost all new ideas have a certain aspect of foolishness when they are first produced | Alfred North Whitehead (1861-1947) |
| Colorless green ideas sleep furiously. | Avram Noam Chomsky (1928-) |
| Be not astonished at new ideas; for it is well known to you that a thing does not therefore cease to be true because it is not accepted by many. | Baruch Spinoza (1632-1677) |
| Ideas are great arrows, but there has to be a bow. And politics is the bow of idealism. | Bill Moyers (1934-) |
| An idea, like a ghost, must be spoken to a little before it will explain itself. | Charles Dickens (1812-1870) |
| The only new ideas that are not subject to our skepticism or suspicion are our own | Cullen Hightower |
| Test ideas in the marketplace. You learn from hearing a range of perspectives. Consultation helps engender the support decisions need to be successfully implemented. | Donald Rumsfeld (1932-) |
| You'll find boredom where there is the absence of a good idea | Earl Nightingale |
| Meeting people unlike oneself does not enlarge one's outlook; it only confirms one's idea that one is unique | Elizabeth Bowen (1899-1973) |
| Have you any idea how many kids it takes to turn off one light in the kitchen? Three. It takes one to say, "What light?" and two more to say, "I didn't turn it on." | Erma Bombeck (1927-1996) |
| Ideas are the root of creation. | Ernest Dimnet (1866-1954) |
| When the rich think about the poor, they have poor ideas. | Evita Peron (1919-1952) |
| What matters is not the idea a man holds, but the depth at which he holds it | Ezra Pound (1885-1972) |
| 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 (1884-1962) |
| Ideas are refined and multiplied in the commerce of minds. In their splendor, images effect a very simple communion of souls. | Gaston Bachelard (1884-1962) |
| A single idea, if it is right, saves us the labor of an infinity of experiences | Jacques Maritain (1882-) |
| Ideas are the great warriors of the world, and a war that has no idea behind it, is simply a brutality. | James A. Garfield (1831-1881) |
| Ideas are the building blocks of ideas. | Jason Zebehazy |
| An idea is a putting truth in check-mate. | José Ortega y Gasset (1883-1955) |
| Nothing dies harder than a bad idea | Julia Cameron |
| When the swords flash let no idea of love, piety, or even the face of your fathers move you | Julius Caesar (102 f.Kr.-44 f.Kr.) |
| If you have one good idea, people will lend you twenty. | Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach (1830-1916) |
| A good idea will keep you awake during the morning, but a great idea will keep you awake during the night. | Marilyn vos Savant (1946-) |
| A mediocre idea that generates enthusiasm will go farther than a great idea that inspires no one. | Mary Kay Ash (1915-2001) |
| Serious-minded people have few ideas. People with ideas are never serious. | Paul Valéry (1871-1945) |
| Never, never rest contented with any circle of ideas, but always be certain that a wider one is still possible. | Pearl Bailey (1918-1990) |
| I do not 'get' ideas; ideas get me. | Robertson Davies (1913-1995) |
| If you do not express your own original ideas, if you do not listen to your own being, then you will have betrayed yourself | Rollo May (1909-1994) |
| An idea is an eye given by God for the seeing of God. Some of these eyes we cannot bear to look out of; we blind them as quickly as possible. | Russell Hoban (1925-) |
| You cannot put a rope around the neck of an idea; you cannot put an idea up against the barrack-square wall and riddle it with bullets; you cannot confine it in the strongest prison cell your slaves could ever build. | Sean O'Casey (1880-1964) |
| In a war of ideas, it is people who get killed. | Stanislaw Jerzy Lec (1906-1966) |
| When an idea exclusively occupies the mind, it is transformed into an actual physical or mental state. | Swami Vivekananda (1863-1902) |
| Nearly every man who develops an idea works it up to the point where it looks impossible, and then he gets discouraged. That's not the place to become discouraged. | Thomas Alva Edison (1847-1931) |
| I got this idea of doing a really serious big work-it would be precisely like a novel, with a single difference: Every word of it would be true from beginning to end. | Truman Capote (1924-1984) |
| Too often new ideas are studied and analyzed until they are suffocated. | William Pollard |
| An idea is never given to you without you being given the power to make it reality. You must, nevertheless, suffer for it. | Richard David Bach (1936-) |
| Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk - and to act. | André Malraux (1901-1976) |
| An idea that is developed and put into action is more important than an idea that exists only as an idea. | Buddha (563 f.Kr.-483 f.Kr.) |
| Religion has caused more harm than any other idea since the beginning of time. There's nothing good I can say about it. People use it as a crutch. | Larry Flynt (1942-) |
| Good ideas are common - what's uncommon are people who'll work hard enough to bring them about | Ashleigh Brilliant (1933-) |
| Adults are always asking little kids what they want to be when they grow up because they're looking for ideas | Paula Poundstone (1959-) |
| New ideas pass through three periods: 1) It can't be done. 2) It probably can be done, but it's not worth doing. 3) I knew it was a good idea all along! | Arthur C. Clarke (1917-) |
| My ideas usually come not at my desk writing but in the midst of living. | Anaïs Nin (1903-1977) |
| The need to be right all the time is the biggest bar to new ideas. 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. | Edward de Bono |
| The way to get good ideas is to get lots of ideas, and throw the bad ones away | Dr. Linus Pauling (1901-1994) |
| A new and valid idea is worth more than a regiment and fewer men can furnish the former than command the latter. | Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. (1841-1935) |
| I began to have an idea of my life, not as slow shaping of achievement to fit my preconceived purposes, but as the gradual discovery and growth of a purpose which I did not know | Joanna Field |
| Have you any idea how many kids it takes to turn off one light in the kitchen? Three. It takes one to say, "What light?" and two more to say, "I didn't turn it on." | Erma Bombeck (1927-1996) |
| Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen. | John Steinbeck (1902-1968) |
| It is very a dangerous thing to have an idea that you will not practice | Phyllis Bottome (1884-1963) |
| Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward. They may be beaten, but they may start a winning game. | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) |
| When an idea exclusively occupies the mind, it is transformed into an actual physical or mental state. | Swami Vivekananda (1863-1902) |
| Math is like love -- a simple idea but it can get complicated. | Harvey S. Firestone (1868-) |
| Capital isn't that important in business. Experience isn't that important. You can get both of these things. What is important is ideas. | Harvey S. Firestone (1868-) |
| All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind. | Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) |
| The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew. | Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) |
| I know quite certainly that I myself have no special talent; curiosity, obsession and dogged endurance, combined with self-criticism, have brought me to my ideas. | Albert Einstein (1879-1955) |
| The people who oppose your ideas are inevitably those who represent the established order that your ideas will upset. | Anthony J. D'Angelo |
| The people who oppose your ideas the most are those who represent the establishment that your ideas will upset. | Anthony J. D'Angelo |
| An idea not coupled with action will never get any bigger than the brain cell it occupied. | Arnold H. Glasgow |
| Ideas are the raw material of progress. Everything first takes shape in the form of an idea. But an idea by itself is worth nothing. An idea, like a machine, must have power applied to it before it can accomplish anything. | Barry C. Forbes |
| In all affairs, love, religion, politics, or business, it's a healthy idea, now and then, to hang a question mark on things you have long taken for granted | Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) |
| Ideas? My head is full of them, one after the other, but they serve no purpose there. They must be put down on paper, one after the other. | Camilo Jose Cela (1916-2002) |
| Everyone is in love with his own ideas | Carl Gustav Jung (1875-1961) |
| The ideas I stand for are not mine. I borrowed them from Socrates. I swiped them from Chesterfield. I stole them from Jesus. And I put them in a book. If you don't like their rules, whose would you use? | Dale Carnegie (1888-1955) |
| Beware when any idea is promoted primarily because it is "bold, exciting, innovative, and new." There are many ideas that are "bold, exciting, innovative and new," but also foolish. | Donald Rumsfeld (1932-) |
| Ideas are fatal to caste | E. M. Forster (1879-1970) |
| Ideas are elusive, slippery things. Best to keep a pad of paper and a pencil at your bedside, so you can stab them during the night before they get away. | Earl Nightingale |
| Meeting people unlike oneself does not enlarge one's outlook; it only confirms one's idea that one is unique | Elizabeth Bowen (1899-1973) |
| When I have an idea, I turn down the flame, as if it were a little alcohol stove, as low as it will go. Then it explodes and that is my idea. | Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961) |
| When the rich think about the poor, they have poor ideas. | Evita Peron (1919-1952) |
| No grand idea was ever born in a conference, but a lot of foolish ideas have died there. | F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940) |
| There is only one kind of love, but there are one thousand imitations | François de la Rochefoucauld (1613-1680) |
| We're going to be buried out here. I like the idea because I may just want to get up some day and stroll into my office. And I can hear you saying, "Harry-you oughtn't!" | Harry S Truman (1884-1972) |
| Ideas are, in truth, force. | Jr. Henry James (1843-1916) |
| To die for an idea; it is unquestionably noble. But how much nobler it would be if men died for ideas that were true! | Henry Louis Mencken (1880-1956) |
| An individual who forces himself to accept this or that idea, or who pretends to accept this or that idea, not only on the ground that believing in it is an act of virtue, but also on the ground that doing so is prudent, is both a fool and a knave | Henry Louis Mencken (1880-1956) |
| The kind of man who wants government to adopt and enforce his ideas is always the kind of man whose ideas are idiotic | Henry Louis Mencken (1880-1956) |
| The real democratic idea is, not that every man shall be on a level with every other, but that every one shall have liberty, without hindrance, to be what God made him | Henry Ward Beecher (1813-1887) |
| It is not enough to be an upright man, we must be seen to be one; society does not exist on moral ideas only | Honoré de Balzac (1799-1850) |
| The American people are going to be ready for an era of realism. They’ve seen the consequences of having too many ‘big ideas.’ | James Carville (1944-) |
| Ideas are the building blocks of ideas. | Jason Zebehazy |
| General and abstract ideas are the source of the greatest errors of mankind. | Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778) |
| Ideas can be life-changing. Sometimes all you need to open the door is just one more good idea. | Jim Rohn |
| I began to have an idea of my life, not as slow shaping of achievement to fit my preconceived purposes, but as the gradual discovery and growth of a purpose which I did not know | Joanna Field |
| It is wrong to admit into the Constitution the idea that there can be property in man | John Adams (1735-1826) |
| I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones. | John Cage (1912-1992) |
| When men think and believe in one set of symbols and act in ways which are contrary to their professed and conscious ideas, confusion and insincerity are bound to result | John Dewey (1859-1952) |
| A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on. Ideas have endurance without death. | John Fitzgerald Kennedy (1917-1963) |
| It is ideas, not vested interests, which are dangerous for good or evil. | John Maynard Keynes (1883-1946) |
| He is the greatest artist who has embodied, in the sum of his works, the greatest number of the greatest ideas. | John Ruskin (1819-1900) |
| A nice man is a man of nasty ideas. | Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) |
| Words are often seen hunting for an idea, but ideas are never seen hunting for words. | Josh Billings (1818-1885) |
| great ideas get even better when you share them | Loesje (1983-) |
| Domino effect: Once you drop a good idea, the rest will follow | Loesje (1983-) |
| A powerful idea communicates some of its strength to him who challenges it. | Marcel Proust (1871-1922) |
| A powerful idea communicates some of its power to the man who contradicts it | Marcel Proust (1871-1922) |
| A good idea will keep you awake during the morning, but a great idea will keep you awake during the night. | Marilyn vos Savant (1946-) |
| No matter how brilliantly an idea is stated, we will not really be moved unless we have already half thought of it ourselves | Mignon McLaughlin (1915-) |
| Ideas are the beginning points of all fortunes. | Napoleon Hill (1883-1970) |
| Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation. | Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) |
| Any preoccupation with ideas of what is right or wrong in conduct shows an arrested intellectual development | Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) |
| An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all. | Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) |
| You have to have an idea of what you are going to do, but it should be a vague idea. | Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) |
| An idea is a point of departure and no more. As soon as you elaborate it, it becomes transformed by thought. | Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) |
| If you are seeking creative ideas, go out walking. Angels whisper to a man when he goes for a walk. | Raymond Inmon |
| 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 (1936-) |
| My ideas have undergone a process of emergence by emergency. When they are needed badly enough, they are accepted. | Richard Buckminster Fuller (1895-) |
| An idea is a feat of association. | Robert Frost (1874-1963) |
| An idea must not be condemned for being a little shy and incoherent; all new ideas are shy when introduced first among our old ones. We should have patience and see whether the incoherency is likely to wear off or to wear on, in which latter case the | Samuel Butler (1835-1902) |
| Ideas run wild without discussion | Serge Kahili King |
| Not just in commerce but in the world of ideas too our age is putting on a veritable clearance sale. Everything can be had so dirt cheap that one begins to wonder whether in the end anyone will want to make a bid. | Soren Kierkegaard (1813-1855) |
| Great ideas originate in the muscles. | Thomas Alva Edison (1847-1931) |
| Keep on the lookout for novel ideas that others have used successfully. Your idea has to be original only in its adaptation to the problem you're working on. | Thomas Alva Edison (1847-1931) |
| We believed in our idea - a family park where parents and children could have fun- together. | Walt Disney (1901-1966) |
| Get a good idea and stay with it. Dog it, and work at it until it's done right. | Walt Whitman (1819-1892) |
| Ideas are the mightiest influence on earth. One great thought breathed into a man may regenerate him. | William Ellery Channing (1780-1842) |
| Every man has a different idea of what's beautiful, and it's best to take the gesture, the shadow of the branch, and let the mind create the tree | William Faulkner (1897-1962) |
| An idea, to be suggestive, must come to the individual with the force of revelation. | William James (1842-1910) |
| The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives. | William James (1842-1910) |
| A young man must let his ideas grow, not be continually rooting them up to see how they are getting on | William McFee (1881-1966) |
| When I am travelling in a carriage, or walking after a good meal, or during the night when I cannot sleep; it is on such occasions that ideas flow best and most abundantly. | Woodrow T. Wilson (1856-1924) |