An apathetic or hostile attitude is the enemy of creative thought. Ideas, like people, flourish when they are welcomed and embraced.
Ideas Quotes
All the good ideas I ever had came to me while I was milking a cow.
Every new idea is born drowning.
The way to get good ideas is to get lots of ideas, and throw the bad ones away.
Great minds discuss ideas; Average minds discuss events; Small minds discuss people.
Stalin seeks to strike, not at the ideas of his opponent, but at his skull.
Those who are fired with an enthusiastic idea and who allow it to take hold and dominate their thoughts find that new worlds open for them. As long as enthusiasm holds out, so will new opportunities.
The well-meaning contention that all ideas have equal merit seems to me little different from the disastrous contention that no ideas have any merit.
To create man was a quaint and original idea, but to add the sheep was tautology.
An absolutely new idea is one of the rarest things known to man.
