Ideas, like individuals, live and die. They flourish, according to their nature, in one soil or climate and droop in another. They are the vegetation of the mental world.

Quote by William MacNeile Dixon

Topics: Ideas Quotes

The facts of the present won't sit still for a portrait. They are constantly vibrating,...

The facts of the present won't sit still for a portrait. They are constantly vibrating,...

Don't you get the idea I'm one of those goddam radicals. Don't get the idea...

Don't you get the idea I'm one of those goddam radicals. Don't get the idea...

A mediocre idea that generates enthusiasm will go farther than a great idea that inspires...

A mediocre idea that generates enthusiasm will go farther than a great idea that inspires...

I never saw a contradiction between the ideas that sustain me and the ideas of...

I never saw a contradiction between the ideas that sustain me and the ideas of...

Your ideas are like diamonds.. .without the refining process, they are just a dirty rock,...

Your ideas are like diamonds.. .without the refining process, they are just a dirty rock,...

A powerful idea communicates some of its strength to him who challenges it.

A powerful idea communicates some of its strength to him who challenges it.

I began to have an idea of my life, not as slow shaping of achievement...

I began to have an idea of my life, not as slow shaping of achievement...

I know quite certainly that I myself have no special talent; curiosity, obsession and dogged...

I know quite certainly that I myself have no special talent; curiosity, obsession and dogged...

Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have...

Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have...

Let's trace the birth of an idea. It's born as rampant radicalism, then it becomes...

Let's trace the birth of an idea. It's born as rampant radicalism, then it becomes...

Be not astonished at new ideas; for it is well known to you that a...

Be not astonished at new ideas; for it is well known to you that a...

Great ideas are not charitable

Great ideas are not charitable

When we put down ideas of what life should be like, we are free to...

When we put down ideas of what life should be like, we are free to...

The Great Idea in advertising is far more than the sum of the recognition scores,...

The Great Idea in advertising is far more than the sum of the recognition scores,...

At Microsoft there are lots of brilliant ideas but the image is that they all...

At Microsoft there are lots of brilliant ideas but the image is that they all...

An idea is a feat of association.

An idea is a feat of association.

Acting is nothing more or less than playing. The idea is to humanize life.

Acting is nothing more or less than playing. The idea is to humanize life.

An individual who forces himself to accept this or that idea, or who pretends to...

An individual who forces himself to accept this or that idea, or who pretends to...

An idea is an eye given by God for the seeing of God. Some of...

An idea is an eye given by God for the seeing of God. Some of...