Forgotten Quote by Tove Jansson

The only difference between the failure of a great idea and the success of a medocre idea was the way in which the idea…

— Nancy Duarte

But these last months had turned him around and now Gen saw there could be as much virtue in letting go of what you…

— Ann Patchett

The idea that no one really knew how to run a government led to the idea that we should arrange a system by which…

— Richard P. Feynman

As a rule, the man who first thinks of a new idea is so much ahead of his time that everyone thinks him silly,…

— Ash Sweeney

His mind worked fast, flying in emergency supplies of common sense, as human minds do, to construct a huge anchor in sanity and prove…

— Terry Pratchett

Nobody had noticed, nobody had paid attention, but, as usual, the essential part of the matter had been settled before the story had begun,…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Now, ideas are the raw material of progress. Everything first takes shape in the form of an idea. But an idea itself is worth…

— B. C. Forbes

Man never had an idea - man will never have an idea, except those supplied to him by his surroundings. Every idea in the…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

There was no single moment when I thought, Aha! What a great idea! Rather there was a slow and gradual accumulation of numerous small…

— Diane Setterfield

Between the approximation of the idea and the precision of reality there was a small gap of the unimaginable, and it was this hiatus…

— Milan Kundera

It is not easy to convey, unless one has experienced it, the dramatic feeling of sudden enlightenment that floods the mind when the right…

— Francis Crick

People forget things that they knew.

— Randy Travis