25 Quotes About Ideas to Jump Start Your Summer

Ah, the idea! The building block of innovation and change. Whether they arrive in a quick flash — or evolve slowly — a single idea can change the course of our lives and work. Welcoming an idea with open arms (and a completely open mind), can often prove to be a challenge, even when that idea possesses great merit. So, we must nurture and protect our ideas as a great resource, offering them the opportunity to develop.

I'd like to think that when all is said and done, we're ready for what is next — even when we initially balk at the change an idea may herald. If not, I fear we may be left behind.

Here is a selection of perspective changing quotes concerning the ever-important idea. Please feel free to add your favorite below:

1. Nothing is more dangerous than an idea, when it's the only one you have. - Emile Chartier
2. An idea is salvation by imagination. - Frank Lloyd Wright
   
3. If you want something new, you have to stop doing something old. - Peter F. Drucker
   
4. Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle. - Ken Hakuta
   
5. Greater than the tread of mighty armies, is an idea whose time has come. - Victor Hugo
6. Great people talk about ideas. Small people talk about other people. - Tobisa S. Gibson
   
7. An idea is a feat of association, and the height of it, is a good metaphor. - Robert Frost
   
8. Great ideas need landing gear, as well as wings. - C. O. Jackson
   
9. All riches have their origin in the mind. Wealth is in ideas — not money. - Robert Collier
   
10. Ideas have a short shelf life. You must act on them before the expiration date. - John C. Maxwell
    
11. An idea is a new combination of old elements. - Gordon Drydon
12. A crank is someone with a new idea, until it catches on. - Mark Twain
    
13. I can't understand why people are frightened by new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones. - John Cage
    
14. The air of ideas, is the only air worth breathing. - Edith Wharton
    
15. Humility, I've learned should never be confused with meekness. Humility is being open to the ideas of others. - Simon Sinek
    
16. Ideas have unhinged the gates of empires. - Paul Harris
    
17. An idea is putting truth in check-mate. - Jos
    
18. Don't have any good idea, if you are not willing to be responsible for them. - Alan Perlis
    
19. It is the nature of thought to find its way into action. - Christian Nevell Bovee
    
20. One's minds stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions. - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
    
21. Rules are a great way to get ideas. All you have to do is break them. - Jack Foster
22. Don't worry about people stealing an idea. If it's original you'll have to ram it down their throats. - Howard Aiken
    
23. Lots of people know a good thing the moment the other fellow sees it first. - Job E. Hodges
    
24. Long is the road, from conception to completion. - Moli
    
25. A moment's insight is often worth a life's experience. - Oliver Wendell Holmes
    

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Dr. Marla Gottschalk is an Industrial/Organizational Psychologist, consultant and executive coach. She also writes The Office Blend.