Quotes on Great Idea

Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.

Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.

Here's the truth about telling stories with your life. It's going to sound like a great idea, and you're going to get excited about it, and then when it comes time to do the work, you're not going to want to do it. It's like that with writing books, and it's like that with life. People love to have lived a great story, but few people like the work it takes to make it happen. But joy costs pain.

Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.

Some people have great ideas maybe once or twice in their life, and then they discover electricity or fire or outer space or something. I mean, the kind of brilliant ideas that change the whole world. Some people never have them at all... I get them two or three times a week.

A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on.

A mediocre idea that generates enthusiasm will go further than a great idea that inspires no one.

Just as he who gives his life to serve a great idea is admirable, he who avails himself of a great idea to serve his personal hopes of glory and power is abominable, even if he too risks his life.

The best way to have a good idea is to have a lot of ideas.

Having a great idea for a product is important, but having a great idea for product distribution is even more important.

I believe with all my heart that America remains 'the great idea' that inspires the world. It is a privilege to be born here. It is an honor to become a citizen here. It is a gift to raise your family here, to vote here, and to live here.

The great ideals of the past failed not by being outlived (which must mean over-lived), but by not being lived enough. Mankind has not passed through the Middle Ages. Rather mankind has retreated from the Middle Ages in reaction and rout. The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult and left untried.

To have a great idea, have a lot of them.

To be oneself is a rare thing, and a great one.

Great ideas travel slowly, and for a time noiselessly, as the gods whose feet were shod with wool.

Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.

Get a good idea and stay with it. Dog it, and work at it until it's done right.

Prayer gives us strength for great ideals, for keeping up our faith, charity, purity, generosity; prayer gives us strength to rise up from indifference and guilt, if we have had the misfortune to give in to temptation and weakness. Prayer gives us light by which to see and to judge from God's perspective and from eternity. That is why you must not give up on praying!

Picasso had a saying - 'good artists copy, great artists steal' - and we have always been shameless about stealing great ideas.

Great ideas come from everywhere if you just listen and look for them. You never know who's going to have a great idea.

Getting a great idea with song writing is a lot like love. You don't know why this one is different, but it is. You don't know why this one is better, but it is. It sticks in your head, and you can't stop thinking about it.