Alphabetical Index of Topics

1. The best ideas are common property. - Seneca
2. In the beginning, every idea has an audience of only one... the idea exists with or without a larger audience or market. - Alice Rich
3. 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 Elliot-Jr.
4. Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple, learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen. - John Steinbeck
5. The more ideas one is free to explore, the more likely a truly creative idea can emerge. - Michael Bell
6. The idea does not belong to the soul; it is the soul that belongs to the idea. - Charles S. Peirce
7. An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come. - Victor Hugo
8. The test of a first rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function. - F. Scott Fitzgerald
9. Try out your ideas by visualizing them in action. - David Seabury
10. It is always delightful when a great and beautiful idea proves to be consonant with reality. - Albert Einstein
11. If you want to get across an idea, wrap it up in a person. - Ralph Bunche
12. One's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions. - Oliver Wendell Holmes
13. Do something. If it doesn't work, do something else. No idea is too crazy. - Jim Hightower
14. A mediocre idea that generates enthusiasm will go further than a great idea that inspires no one. - Mary Kay Ash
15. Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into practice with courageous patience. - Hyman Rickover