Famous Quotes & Sayings

Napoleon Hill

Ideas are intangible forces, but they have more power than the physical brains that give birth to them. They have the power to live on, after the brain that creates them has returned to dust.

Napoleon Hill

Most ideas are stillborn and need the breath of life injected into them through definite plans of immediate action. The time to nurse an idea is at the time of its birth. Every minute it lives gives it a better chance of surviving.

Napoleon Hill

Every person should make it his business to gather new ideas from sources other than the environment in which he daily lives and works. The mind becomes withered, stagnant, narrow and closed unless it searches for new ideas.

Jack Welch

The operative assumption today is that someone, somewhere, has a better idea; and the operative compulsion is to find out who has that better idea, learn it, and put it into action-fast.

Jack Welch

On the face of it, shareholder value is the dumbest idea in the world,

Jack Welch

We bring together the best ideas - turning the meetings of our top managers into intellectual orgies.

Jack Welch

Strategy is not a lengthy action plan. It is the evolution of a central idea through continually changing circumstances.

Jack Welch

Someone, somewhere has a better idea.

Harvey Fierstein

Movies are all about plot. Theater, even if it's story heavy, it's about ideas.

Harvey Mackay

It isn't the quality of the ideas you have that will determine whether you make a success of them, it's the qualities you bring to those ideas.

Harvey Mackay

The employees who share innovative ideas may also be the folks who have some hidden talents that would help incorporate their suggestions.

Genevieve Gorder

I had the idea for the show like a year and a half, two years ago. And it was all about the things that I didn't like about TV. I was trying to create a positive solution for it. And it actually worked.

Gene Wilder

So my idea of neurotic is spending too much time trying to correct a wrong. When I feel that I'm doing that, then I snap out of it.

Irving Kaufman

The ideal is to have the losing party feel that he is not the victim of the judge, but simply the object of a profession that is the same for all.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

The ideal course of life is not always easy.

James Altucher

Do as many ideas as possible. The right idea will pick you.

James Anthony Froude

A person possessed with an idea cannot be reasoned with.

Jake Gyllenhaal

Peter Sarsgaard, he's an extraordinary actor, and I would say that Peter has really brought into my life and my sister's life a sense of presence as an actor that I never really understood or knew about until I met him. They've been together for a very long time, and he introduced me to the idea of the presentation.

Jacques Pepin

The idea of old was to conform yourself to a style of cooking, it was not to create a style of cooking. Now the chef is so much into 'I want to sign that dish and say I am the one who made that dish.

Jacques Maritain

A single idea, if it is right, saves us the labor of an infinity of experiences.

Jacques Ellul

The aim of modern propaganda is no longer to modify ideas, but to provoke action.

Jacob Lawrence

The Human subject is the most important thing. My work is abstract in the sense of having been designed and composed, but it is not abstract in the sense of having no human content I want to communicate. I want the idea to strike right away.

Henry Rollins

The idea that any performer type is owed anything is a joke to me.

Henry Rollins

So many Americans, for one reason or another, they watch the news and it doesn't really give them the idea of the world. Or they don't read or travel. They have no idea that America is part of the world and not the world itself.

Henry Rollins

If you have an idea of what you want to do in your future, you must go at it with almost monastic obsession...you have to go at it single-mindedly and let nothing get in your way.

Henry Adams

There have been times when the church seemed afraid, but she is no longer. Analyze, dissect, use your microscope or your spectrum till the last atom of matter is reached; reflect and refine till the last element of thought is made clear; the church now knows with the certainty of science what she once knew only by the certainty of faith, that you will find enthroned behind all thought and matter only one central idea--that idea which the church has never ceased to embody--I AM!

Henry A. Kissinger

Committees are consumers and sometimes sterilizers of ideas, rarely creators of them.

Henry Hazlitt

Once the idea is accepted that money is something whose supply is determined simply by the printing press, it becomes impossible for the politicians in power to resist the constant demands for further inflation.

Mahatma Gandhi

My whole soul rebels against the idea that Hinduism and Islam represent two antagonistic cultures and doctrines.

Manmohan Singh

No power on earth can stop an idea whose time has come.

Man Ray

A certain amount of contempt for the material employed to express an idea is indispensable to the purest realization of this idea.

Mandy Patinkin

But I loved the theatre and I was just doing theatre 24/7 and kept dropping courses because I didn't have the time and the chancellor thought that wasn't a good idea after awhile.

Mandy Patinkin

I HAVE NO IDEA WHATS COMING NEXT OR WHERE IT WILL COME FROM; I ENJOY THE SURPRISE OF IT ALL.