Action Quote by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Ideas are powerful things, requiring not a studious contemplation but an action, even if it is only an inner action.

— Midge Decter

Ideas are intelligent active things which present themselves to your consciousness for expression. You can only be receptive and express them as they will…

— Harvey Dunn

The link between ideas and action is rarely direct. There is almost always an intermediate step in which the idea is overcome.

— Eric Hoffer

Ideas can be used by many people at the same time.

— Paul Romer

There are few who have at once thought and capacity for action. Thought expands, but lames; action animates, but narrows.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds.

— Remy de Gourmont

Ideas alone can be works of art; they are in a chain of development that may eventually find some form. All ideas need not…

— Sol LeWitt

Ideas are powerful things, requiring not a studious contemplation but an action, even if it is only an inner action. Their acquisition obligates each…

— Midge Decter

“ideas are so elastic in a human brain, that they have no constant measure which may be called their actual bulk. Any important idea…

— Thomas Hardy

Very simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds.

— Remy de Gourmont

Ideas are, in truth, force.

— Henry James

Most ideas are born and lost in isolation.

— Scott Belsky