Thomas Reid Quotes

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

For one person who is blessed with the power of invention, many will always be found who have the capacity of applying principles.

I think I'd be quite good at Builder, like designer, construction... I've always liked making things. I'm quite good with my hands. So I think I'd be quite good at designing new inventions.

Science is about knowing; engineering is about doing.

A lot of great creativity comes from restrictions.

My creativity thrives with limitations.

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

The people who are changing our world are starting from an idea and bringing it all the way through to finished product with the power of their intellect, training, tools and available products.

With clear definitions and a taxonomy that illustrates their relationships, the Inventure Cycle defines the pathway from inspiration to implementation. This framework captures the skills, attitudes, and actions that are necessary to foster innovation and to bring breakthrough ideas to the world.

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

I am an engineer, not just an architect, so I've always been motivated by technique or technology. As soon as technology moves just a little bit, it changes architecture.

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

Research: the distance between an idea and its realization.

Without theory we can only copy.

Ideas are useless unless used.

What is often lacking is not creativity in the idea-creating sense but innovation in the action-producing sense, i.e. putting ideas to work.

Usage is like oxygen for ideas.

The fact was I had the vision... I think everyone has... what we lack is the method.

Ideas are great arrows, but there has to be a bow.

Sometimes it's easy to have ideas, but somebody has to find a way to do it. Often those responsible for finding a way don't have the idea.

Where ideas are concerned, America can be counted on to do one of two things: Take a good idea and run it completely into the ground, or take a bad idea and run it completely into the ground.

It is always more easy to discover and proclaim general principles than it is to apply them.

Ah, to build, to build! That is the noblest of all the arts.

Learning gives creativity Creativity leads to thinking Thinking provides knowledge Knowledge makes you great.