The Idea Centered Library

I like the idea that libraries are in the business of ideas. Check out this post from The Heart of Innovation:

50 Awesome Quotes on IDEAS

Here are my favourites. Check the link for all 50.

2. “If you do not express your own original ideas, if you do not listen to your own being, you will have betrayed yourself.” – Rollo May

3. “An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.” – Oscar Wilde

5. “The way to get good ideas is to get lots of ideas and throw the bad ones away.” – Linus Pauling

8. “A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a quip and worried to death by a frown on the right man’s brow.” – Ovid

10. “You can have brilliant ideas, but if you can’t get them across, your ideas won’t get you anywhere.” – Lee Iacocca

14. “Nothing is more dangerous than an idea when it is the only one you have.” – Emile Chartier

17. “Everyone is in love with their own ideas.” – Carl Jung

20. “The air is full of ideas. They are knocking you in the head all the time. You only have to know what you want, then forget it, and go about your business. Suddenly, the idea will come through. It was there all the time.” – Henry Ford

21. “Everything begins with an idea.” – Earl Nightengale

23. “A mediocre idea that generates enthusiasm will go further than a great idea that inspires no one.” – Mary Kay Ash

24. “We often refuse to accept an idea merely because the tone of voice in which it has been expressed is unsympathetic to us.”- Friedrich Nietzche

27. “If you want to kill any idea in the world, get a committee working on it.” – Charles Kettering

30. “I begin with an idea and then it becomes something else.” – Pablo Picasso

31. “New ideas pass through three periods: 1) It can’t be done; 2) It probably can be done, but it’s not worth doing; 3) I knew it was a good idea all along!” – Arthur C. Clarke

32. “Almost all really new ideas have a certain aspect of foolishness when they are just produced.” – Alfred North Whitehead

33. “Adults are always asking little kids what they want to be when they grow up because they’re looking for ideas.” – Paula Poundstone

35. “If I have a thousand ideas and only one turns out to be good, I am satisfied.” – Alfred Noble

37. “Money never starts an idea; it is the idea that starts the money.” – William J. Cameron

38. “No idea is so outlandish that it should not be considered.”
– Winston Churchill

39. “If you are possessed by an idea, you find it expressed everywhere, you even smell it.” – Thomas Mann

40. “The ability to express an idea is well nigh as important as the idea itself.” – Bernard Baruch

41. “You can kill a man, but you can’t kill an idea.” – Medgar Evers

42. “After years of telling corporate citizens to ‘trust the system’, many companies must relearn instead to trust their people and encourage them to use neglected creative capacities in order to tap the most potent economic stimulus of all: idea power.” – Rosabeth Moss Kanter

43. “The man with a new idea is a crank — until the idea succeeds.” – Mark Twain

45. “An idea is salvation by imagination.” – Frank Lloyd Wright

46. “I can’t understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I’m frightened of the old ones.” – John Cage

49. “Our best ideas come from clerks and stockboys.” – Sam Walton

Stephen