Ideas And Inspiration Quotes:

Don't worry about failure; you only have to be right once.

- Drew Houston

source: "The Era Of The #fumblebrag" by Caleb Garling, www.wired.com. March 26, 2015.

topic: Business, Worry, Young Entrepreneurs, Starting Up, Business Owners

Don't worry about what anybody else is going to do. The best way to predict the future is to invent it.

- Alan Kay

topic: Worry, Way, Live By, Way In Life, Young Entrepreneurs

You can't use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.

- Maya Angelou

topic: Inspirational, Positive, Art, Creativeness, Creative People

A person with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.

- Mark Twain

topic: Inspirational, Success, Business, Social Innovation, Innovation And Business

Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.

- John Steinbeck

topic: Inspirational, Wisdom, Couple, Innovation And Business, Inspirational And Innovation

The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping the old ones, which ramify, for those brought up as most of us have been, into every corner of our minds.

- John Maynard Keynes

source: "The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money". Book by John Maynard Keynes (Preface), 1936.

topic: Education, Lying, Escaping, Innovation Inspiration, Inspiration And Creativity

A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on.

- John F. Kennedy

topic: Life, Fall, Patriotic, Inspiration And Creativity, Modern Warfare

The best way to predict the future is to create it.

- Peter Drucker

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Way In Life, Young Entrepreneurs

The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.

- Walt Disney

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Positive, Best Success, Social Entrepreneurship

The best way to predict the future is to study the past, or prognosticate.

- Robert Kiyosaki

topic: Past, Way, Study, Way In Life, Young Entrepreneurs

Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.

- Albert Einstein

source: "The Rhythm of Life : Living Every Day with Passion and Purpose" by Matthew Kelly, (p. 80), 2004.

topic: Life, Motivational, Strength, Improve Self Esteem, Special Education

If you think you can't, you're right.

- Carol Bartz

topic: Inspirational, Positive, Smart, Thought Of The Day, Best Success

Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats.

- Howard Aiken

topic: Life And Love, Business, Congratulations, Daily Work, Innovation And Business

Ideas won't keep. Something must be done about them.

- Alfred North Whitehead

topic: Ideas, Innovation, Done, Innovation And Business, Inspirational And Innovation

It's not about ideas. It's about making ideas happen.

- Scott Belsky

topic: Business, Ideas, Young Entrepreneurs, Inspirational And Innovation, Make It Happen

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

- Edward de Bono

topic: Buddhist, Creativity, Ideas, Inspiration And Creativity, Daily Buddhist

All your dreams can come true if you have the courage to pursue them.

- Walt Disney

source: "How to Be Like Walt : Capturing the Magic Every Day of Your Life". Book by Pat Williams, 2004.

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Best Success, Young Entrepreneurs

Photographers do themselves a disservice by talking too much about the equipment they use. Consequently people don't take them seriously as creators in their own right. When people talk to writers about their work, they ask about their ideas and inspirations. When they talk to photographers, they ask about what cameras or film they use. That's wrong - as wrong as asking a writer what pencil and laptop he uses.

- Peter Turnley

topic: Inspiration, Talking, Ideas, Ideas And Inspiration, Talking Too Much

There is no such thing as a boring person: everyone has stories and insights worth sharing. While on the road, we let our phones or laptops take up our attention. By doing that, we might miss out on the chance to learn and absorb ideas and inspiration from an unexpected source: our fellow travelers.

- Richard Branson

topic: Inspiration, Ideas, Phones, Fellow Travelers, Everyone Has A Story

I've never been a big fan of subtle art. I like art that gets deep into my head and starts my brain spinning with new ideas and inspiration and my whole body is full of energy.

- Jello Biafra

topic: Art, Inspiration, Ideas, Ideas And Inspiration

Predictions can sound really good if you're good with words and can express them eloquently and give people ideas and inspiration in their head. But I'm not really good at that, so I don't want to.

- Steve Wozniak

topic: Inspiration, Ideas, Giving, Ideas And Inspiration

Most creative work is a process of people passing ideas and inspirations from the past into the future and adding their own creativity along the way.

- Joichi Ito

topic: Inspiration, Creativity, Past, Ideas And Inspiration

My impression was and is that many programming languages and tools represent solutions looking for problems, and I was determined that my work should not fall into that category. Thus, I follow the literature on programming languages and the debates about programming languages primarily looking for ideas for solutions to problems my colleagues and I have encountered in real applications. Other programming languages constitute a mountain of ideas and inspiration-but it has to be mined carefully to avoid featurism and inconsistencies.

- Bjarne Stroustrup

source: Bjarne Stroustrup (1994). “The Design and Evolution of C++”, Addison-Wesley Professional

topic: Real, Fall, Inspiration, Ideas And Inspiration

What inspires me is what I see people wearing on the streets of the world from New York to London and beyond. I get my ideas and inspiration from pounding the pavement all over the world. Today, fashion is dictated by individual style. To me, the fashion of the future is anything that a young guy or girl feels good wearing as long as it's put together in the right way.

- Steve Madden

topic: Girl, Fashion, New York, Individual Style, Young Guys