Idea Acceptance Quotes

If I can get you to laugh with me, you like me better, which makes you more open to my ideas. And if I can persuade you to laugh at the particular point I make, by laughing at it you acknowledge its truth.

An average idea enthusiastically embraced will go farther than a genius idea no one gets.

There's no such thing as good ideas and bad ideas. There are only your own ideas and other people's. If you want someone to like your idea, tell him he said it first last week and you just remembered it.

An idea accepted as true from any source can be every bit as powerful as hypnosis.

You can't think of a franchise from day one. It starts with the audience accepting the idea.

Every original idea is first ridiculed, then vigorously attacked, and finally taken for granted.

People will always challenge you on an idea as long as it has not been concretized by somebody else.

I think sometimes people need to get used to an idea.

You can only go so far in analyzing each and every one person's opinion because they are often quite different. You just have to trust your instincts and hope that if someone doesn't like your idea, you can prove them wrong in the final process. In the end, you can please some of the people some of the time, but that's about all you can do.

It is natural to give a clear view of the world after accepting the idea that it must be clear.

In science, the credit goes to the man who convinces the world, not to whom the idea first occurs.

Not all ideas will be accepted, but every idea deserves its own space, and every idea deserves to be expressed.

Generally speaking, men are influenced by books which clarify their own thought, which express their own notions well, or which suggest to them ideas which their minds are already predisposed to accept

People who work with me say I have a four-step response to new ideas: rejection, reconsideration, acceptance, ownership. I need to listen more patiently.