7,440 Quotes About Ideas

Innovation and progress thrive on rejections and setbacks. Challenge yourself to go further and try harder.

The mysteries of life include the external and the internal conundrums that each person encounters in a world composed of competing ideologies and agents of change. Conflicting ideas include political, social, legal, and ethical concepts. Agents of change include environmental factors, social pressure to conform, aging, and the forces inside us that made us into whom we are as well as the forces compelling us to be a different type of person.

Ideas are like water. They begin as a drip, which can pool and overflow to form a gentle stream. The stream meanders to a babbling brook or leads into a speedy tributary. This can journey to a raging river and that in time ventures to the unconquerable ocean. Some waters and ideas cannot be stopped.

Poetry is prose bewitched, a music made of visual thoughts, the sound of an idea.

Ideas are like money: people kill for ideas.

The survival of my own ideas may not be as important as a condition I might create for others’ ideas to be realized.

We search our entire lives to create a genuine and reliable self that can relate with other people and faithfully express our artistic temperament. Our battle for personal authenticity requires us to penetrate layers of self-deception, conquer ego defense mechanism, and destroy a false self that is intent upon meeting other people’s expectations.

Solitude with God is a place for pregnancy. Solitude is also a place to receive great ideas and creative ideas from God. The power of imagination is strongest in the place of solitude.

We feel the same emotions for our ideas as we do for the real world, which is why we can cry while reading a book, or fall in love with movie stars.