David Longstreth Quotes

Our visions are the plans of the possible life structure, but they will end in plans if we do not follow them up with a vigorous effort to make them real, just as the architect's plans will end in his drawings if they are not followed up and made real by the builder.

Sometimes the best, and only effective, way to kill an idea is to put it into practice.

Great thoughts reduced to practice become great acts.

Talk is talk; action on the field is action on the field.

Ideas are one thing and what happens is another.

Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.

It is not good enough for things to be planned - they still have to be done; for the intention to become a reality, energy has to be launched into operation.

As you get out and try to do things, you always find that in order to make an idea a reality, it goes through some changes. It doesn't always come out exactly like you envisioned it.

A dream will not become an innovation if there is no realization.

Theory is splendid but until put into practice, it is valueless.

Do you know the phrase, 'The word 'water' will not wet you?' It's one thing to write down an idea and another thing entirely to execute it.

It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.

Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.

An idea that is developed and put into action is more important than an idea that exists only as an idea.

To understand the theory which underlies all things is not sufficient. Theory is but the preparation for practice.

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

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

Ideas do not count for much unless they change the lives of men.

It is not the knowing that is difficult, but the doing.

Knowledge is potential power. It transforms itself into actual power the moment you decisively act on it.

A lot can change between planning something and actually doing it. But maybe all that really matters is that anything is different at all.

If you don't get it built, the work doesn't matter.

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

It is one thing to say that something should be done, but quite a different matter to do it.

Imagining may be the first step in making it happen, but it takes the real time and real efforts of real people to learn things, make things, turn thoughts into deeds or visions into inventions.