A Quote by Theodore Levitt

Ideas are useless unless used.

Theodore Levitt

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Ideas Unless Used Useless

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Theodore Levitt
American - Economist
March 1, 1925 - June 28, 2006

Ideas are useless unless used. The proof of their value is in their implementation. Until then, they are in limbo.

Theodore Levitt

In academic life, false ideas are merely false and useless ones can be fun to play with. In political life, false ideas can ruin the lives of millions and useless ones can waste precious resources. An intellectual's responsibility for his ideas is to follow their consequences wherever they may lead. A politician's responsibility is to master those consequences and prevent them from doing harm. Michael Ignatieff, a former professor at Harvard and contributing writer for the magazine, is a member of Canada's Parliament and deputy leader of the Liberal Party.

Michael Ignatieff

The greatest missile in the world is useless ... unless it's targeted. A torpedo is adrift unless it has someplace to go. An arrow is pointless unless it hits something. So it's important for kids--for everyone, even if you fail at first--to target something and head in that direction. With all your might.

Tim Allen

The whole idea of ideas in art is useless. Only have ideas about form.

Matthew Collings

There is always the danger in scientific work that some word or phrase will be used by different authors to express so many ideas and surmises that, unless redefined, it loses all real significance.

Gilbert N. Lewis

I have done no passably decent job in this world which did not at first seem to me useless - absurdly useless, useless to the point of nausea. My secret demon is called:;: What's the use?

Georges Bernanos

All of the characters at Marvel were my ideas, but the ideas meant nothing unless I had somebody who could illustrate it.

Stan Lee

Ideas without action are useless.

Helen Keller

Celebrity is a weird appendage, which is useless unless you do something with it.

Minnie Driver

It is useless to send armies against ideas.

Georg Brandes

It is useless for large companies of believers to spend long hours begging God to send revival. Unless we intend to reform we may as well not pray. Unless praying men have the insight and faith to amend their whole way of life to conform to the New Testament pattern there can be no true revival.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

The wisdom acquired with the passage of time is a useless gift unless you share it.

Esther Williams

Words are like money; there is nothing so useless, unless when in actual use.

Samuel Butler

It is useless to deny that, unless one has a genius for imparting knowledge, teaching is a drudgery.

Margaret Deland

All of the great ideas, without action, become stale and useless. The key to turning dreams into reality is action. People who have great ideas are a dime a dozen. People who act on their dreams and ideas are the select few, but they are the ones who gain the wealth, wealth and wisdom that is available. Someone will act today. Let it be you.

Jim Rohn

You can't have good ideas unless you have lots of ideas.

Linus Pauling

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