Alfred North Whitehead Quotes

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

If you don't execute your ideas, they die.

Good ideas are a dime a dozen. It's what you do with them that counts.

Ideas are easy. It's the execution of ideas that really separates the sheep from the goats.

Ideas are cheap. Ideas are easy. Ideas are common. Everybody has ideas. Ideas are highly, highly overvalued. Execution is all that matters.

Acting on a good idea is better than just having a good idea.

Genius is in the idea. Impact, however, comes from action!

A dream will not become an innovation if there is no realization.

When you come up with a good idea, you don't have to do a whole lot. The idea does it for you.

If you have an idea, immediately move on it. To start that fire and get it burning immediately...it's everything.

Ideas are a dime a dozen. People who execute them are not.

A brilliant idea without action is like Mark McGwire playing baseball without a bat.

When something has to be done, do it! In France we are full of good ideas, but we rarely put them into practice.

It is not good enough for things to be planned - they still have to be done; for the intention to become a reality, energy has to be launched into operation.

The world is full of people who say, 'But I had that idea first,' but did they do anything about it? Nope, they sat on their bum dreaming.

I've always been comfortable thinking things through and doing it, more or less, my way. You can be as creative as you want, but if you're... unwilling to work on the details, to see those put into action, then creativity is just dreams, or worse, hallucinations.

The best ideas are useless unless carried out.

I had ideas. A lot were good, but in many ways, I had no idea or experience about how to carry them out.

I've known people who had fantastic ideas, but who couldn't get the idea off the ground because they approached everything weakly. They thought that their ideas would somehow take off by themselves, or that just coming up with an idea was enough. Let me tell you something - it's not enough. It will never be enough. You have to put the idea into action. If you don't have the motivation and the enthusiasm, your great idea will simply sit on top of your desk or inside your head and go nowhere.

What good is inspiration if it's not backed up by action?

Stop sketching and start building.

Ideas are easy. Implementation is hard.

An idea is worthless unless you use it.

The value of a good idea is in using it.

If you have a good idea, get it out there. For every idea I’ve realized, I have ten I sat on for a decade till someone else did it first. Write it. Shoot it. Publish it. Crochet it, sauté it, whatever. MAKE.