"I have never had so many good ideas day after day as when I worked in the garden." John Erskine

"What counts, in the long run, is not what you read; it is what you sift through your own mind; it is the ideas and impressions that are aroused in you by your reading." Eleanor Roosevelt

"We should be taught not to wait for inspiration to start a thing. Action always generates inspiration. Inspiration seldom generates action." Frank Tibolt

“An idea, in the highest sense of that word, cannot be conveyed except by a symbol.” Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“The creative person is willing to live with ambiguity. He doesn't need problems solved immediately and can afford to wait for the right ideas.” Abe Tannenbaum

"Ideas not coupled with action never become bigger than the brain cells they occupied." Arnold H. Glasgow

“Ideas are like strawberries, they need to bloom and fade and get to be mature.” unknown

“Nothing is more dangerous than an idea when it's the only one you have.” Emile Chartier, philosopher (1868-1951)

“I am long on ideas, but short on time. I only expect to live about a hundred years.” Thomas Edison

“The mind is but a barren soil; a soil which is soon exhausted, and will produce no crop, or only one, unless it be continually fertilized and enriched with foreign matter.” Joshua Reynolds, painter (1723-1792)

“Everyone gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.” Gertrude Stein

“A powerful idea communicates some of its strength to him who challenges it.” Marcel Proust (Remembrance of Things Past)

“Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than in the one where they sprung up.” Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.