Fred Rogers Quotes

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

The truth is, it's not the idea, it's never the idea, it's always what you do with it.

A good idea is about ten percent and implementation and hard work, and luck is 90 percent.

A great idea is not enough.

The world needs dreamers and the world needs doers. But above all, the world needs dreamers who do.

Creativity comes from trust. Trust your instincts. And never hope more than you work.

The value of an idea lies in the using of it.

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.

Ideas won't keep; something must be done about them.

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

I like to come up with new ideas and see them grow.

Ideas are commodity. Execution of them is not.

Ideas must work through the brains and the arms of good and brave men or they are no better than dreams.

I know it's easy to imagine, But it's easier to just do, See, if you can't do what you imagine, then what is imagination to you?

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

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

Ideas are useless unless used.

I don't practice anything. I spend time looking over ideas and then just get out and do it.

There's at least a hundred times more people with great ideas than people that are willing to put in the effort to execute them well.

Ideas are the cheapest part of the writing. They are free. The hard part is what you do with ideas you've gathered.

The ultimate, most holy form of theory is action.

When Marconi suggested the possibility of wireless transmission of sound (the radio),he was committed to a mental institution. But people like Lincoln, Edison, and Marconi were strongly motivated. So they didn't give up. They somehow knew that the only real failure is the one from which we learn nothing. They seemed to go on the assumption that there is no failure greater than the failure of not trying, and so they continued to try in the face of repeated failures.

To build means to make architecture real on the borders of knowledge.

I don't think people understand how much hard work innovation is. That it's not just getting an idea. You really have to cross your T's and dot your I's long before you ever start on the project. I don't think people perceive that about me. I work hard.

Stop sketching and start building.