Quote by Rollo May

“If you don't respect your ideas, make note of them, and keep your mind open to them, they'll float right past you, like fish…

— Suzanne Fisher Staples

“It is unwise to force others to accept your ideas when you do not understand them yourself.”

— Mwanandeke Kindembo

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

— Mel Chin

“Do not covet your ideas. Give away everything you know and more will come back to you.”

— Paul Arden

“It's one thing to listen only to yourself and believe in the superiority of your ideas. It's quite another to look down upon those…

— Ryan Asmussen

“Only yourself can critizice your ideas for you are the only one who knows where are they coming from and how they were born.”

— Pedro A. Pérez Raymond

“My thoughts are my own—I will not modify them to receive the approval of others. My feelings are my own—I will not silence them…

— Patricia Lynn Reilly

“You can always borrow ideas; but unless you improve them very significantly, never behave as if they are your own!”

— Mehmet Murat ildan

“Be the Author of your own life!”

— Ursula Kay Vos

“Imitate, and what is personal will eventually come despite yourself.”

— Jean Cocteau

“You can’t be another person’s honesty, child, but you can be your own.”

— Jeanette Winterson

“I've found the best way to revise your own work is to pretend that somebody else wrote it and then to rip the living…

— Don Roff