Firsts Quote by Sophie Germain

Often an idea has impact far larger than the person who originated it.

— Ramez Naam

An idea that is developed and put into action is more important than an idea that exists only as an idea.

— Edward de Bono

Having a great idea is simply not enough. The eventual goal is vastly more important than any idea. It is how ideas are implemented…

— Felix Dennis

It's important not to overstate the benefits of ideas. Quite frankly, I know it's kind of a romantic notion that you're just going to…

— Sergey Brin

It doesn't matter how new an idea is: what matters is how new it becomes.

— Elias Canetti

The ability to express an idea is well nigh as important as the idea itself.

— Bernard Baruch

A great idea goes through three stages on its way to acceptance: 1) it is dismissed as nonsense, 2) it is acknowledged as true,…

— William James

The ideas aren't that important. Really they aren't. Everyone's got an idea for a book, a movie, a story, a TV series.

— Neil Gaiman

Will gives us the ability to take an idea hold that idea and zero right in on something

— Bob Proctor

In many ways ideas are more important than people - they are much more permanent.

— Charles Kettering

I think I have a sense right in the beginning of how big an idea it is and how much room it needs, and,…

— Lydia Davis

An idea is a point of departure and no more. As soon as you elaborate it, it becomes transformed by thought.

— Pablo Picasso