James Webb Young Quotes

A good idea has self-expanding qualities. It stimulates those who see it to add to it.

An idea is nothing more nor less than a new combination of old elements.

Drop the whole subject and put it out of your mind and let your subconscious do its thing.

Do not make the mistake of holding your idea close to your chest… Submit it to the criticism of the judicious.

This use of advertising - to add a subjective value to the product - becomes increasingly important as the trends in our technology lead to competing products becoming more and more the same.

The habit of mind which leads to a search for relationships between facts becomes of the highest importance in the production of ideas.

Particular bits of knowledge are nothing, because they are made up of what Dr. Robert Hutchins once called rapidly aging facts. Principles and method are everything.

We tend to forget that words are, themselves, ideas. They might be called ideas in a state of suspended animation. When the words are mastered the ideas tend to come alive again.

And so, while perhaps not all God's chilluns got wings, enough have for each of us to hope that we may be among those that have.