Top 100 A Good Idea Quotes

#1. Discord says it's a good idea. That's comforting.

Melissa Marr

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#2. We are not ashamed to incorporate and adapt a good idea to our needs just because we didn't come up with it. Likewise, we are not afraid to abandon something we actually did come up with ourselves if we discover that it doesn't work.

Dave Redding

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#3. It takes a very strong brain to resist the absolutes, the myths that the media and the politicians peddle - the idea that if you are too kind, where does it all end? That not to help someone is somehow a good idea.

Peter Mullan

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#4. If you've got a good idea and you're willing to do whatever it takes to pursue it, keep your head up and eyes open because you don't know when opportunity will come knocking.

Paula Deen

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#5. It's really hard to know what's a good idea when you're growing and these ideas don't hold still and neither do you.

Catherine Ryan Hyde

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#6. Sometimes in life it is a good idea to stop,sometimes it is a good idea to go on. The trick is to decide when to stop

Richard Dawkins

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#7. They tended to wield the huge blunt ax of the law in circumstances that required the delicate scalpel of common sense. [ ... ] Policeman with their great big boots were not required here on a night like this. It would be a good idea to put a thumbtack under the ponderous feet of Justice.

Terry Pratchett

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#8. Counting lines is probably a good idea if you want to print it out and are short on paper, but I fail to see the purpose otherwise.

Erik Naggum

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#9. A good idea is worthless without impeccable execution and a commitment to iterate.

Zach Klein

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#10. She decided it was perhaps a little like marriage itself: a good idea that, like all ideas, lived awkwardly on earth. -Terrific Mother

Lorrie Moore

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#11. The chances of a bank going out of business are extremely slim, but it's always a good idea to spread around major sums so every penny is backed by insurance.

Suze Orman

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#12. Progress-progress is the dirtiest word in the language-who ever told us- And made us believe it-that to take a step forward was necessarily, was always A good idea?

Edna St. Vincent Millay

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#13. People changing because they think they should is not a good idea, because I just don't think they should, really.

Lemmy Kilmister

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#14. There's been a number of erroneous biographies, articles and so on written about Billy and we both thought it would be a good idea to produce a true one.

Pamela Stephenson

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#15. I'm willing to meet with anyone, Democrat or Republican, who has a good idea, an open mind and a willingness to come together to tackle the challenges we face.

Brad Schneider

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#16. I am thankful I was born in America, although if I gain any more weight the burqa thing may start to seem like a good idea to me. See? Another plus about America, you can always find some food.

Elayne Boosler

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#17. When a marriage fails, the story of the relationship changes. The best parts, the parts that made you think getting married was a good idea, fade from memory.

Tori Spelling

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#18. So, one-third of the time it's a bad idea to move, which means that two-thirds of the time it's a good idea.

Ian McEwan

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#19. Well, all right, Ash thought. Maybe freeing the dragon wasn't such a good idea.

Cinda Williams Chima

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#20. Another Quarter Pounder sometimes seems like a good idea- but I always regret later. Only in hindsight do we see how God would not let us settle for our well-intentioned but limited desires, but called us- sometimes weeping and kicking- to something more enduring and satisfying.

Christopher Ruddy

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#21. Why did we think having a cub was a good idea?

Nalini Singh

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#22. Ideas are cheap - what counts is the ability to translate an idea into reality, which is much more difficult than recognizing a good idea.

Josh Kaufman

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#23. It's funny that when people reach a certain age, such as after graduating college, they assume it's time to go out and get a job. But like many things the masses do, just because everyone does it doesn't mean it's a good idea.

Steve Pavlina

A Good Idea Quotes #1366944
#24. Constance: Tell me, what happened to William's little maid? I never saw her again after that dinner.
Mary Maceachran: Elsie?
She's gone.
Constance: Oh, it's a pity, really. I thought it was a good idea to have someone in the house who is actually sorry he's dead.

Julian Fellowes

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#25. I would never advise shooing away a good idea.

Phoebe Stone

A Good Idea Quotes #1365333
#26. My cousin Elroy spent seven years as an IBM taper staring at THINK signs on the walls before he finally got a good idea: He quit.

Edward Abbey

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#27. In India it is regarded as a good idea to dart in front of an oncoming car, for the car is sure to kill the evil spirits who are pursuing you, and all the rest of your life you will have good luck.

Robertson Davies

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#28. In early sobriety I heard that if you have an idea after ten p.m., it is probably not a good idea - and this was before e-mail.

Anne Lamott

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#29. If you give a good idea to a mediocre team, they will screw it up. If you give a mediocre idea to a brilliant team, they will either fix it or throw it away and come up with something better.

Ed Catmull

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#30. It was never a good idea to confide in people. They always remembered, and when they came up to you in the street, years later, you could see the information was still firmly attached to your face and present in the way they said your name and the pressure of their hand clasping yours.

Helen Simonson

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#31. As a writer, you have to believe you're one of the best writers in the world. To sit down every day at the typewriter filled with self-doubt is not a good idea.

Jo Nesbo

A Good Idea Quotes #1353272
#32. A good idea is a network. A specific constellation of neurons - thousands of them - fire in sync with each other for the first time in your brain, and an idea pops into your consciousness.

Steven Johnson

A Good Idea Quotes #1352083
#33. Getting up way in advance of dawn is always a good idea. Nearly ninety-nine percent of the time when I have gotten up in the middle of the night for a shoot, something good always presents itself to offset the nagging tiredness and discomfort of losing sleep.

Peter Menzel

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#34. It's never a good idea to believe everything you hear.

Tahereh Mafi

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#35. Marvin Gaye is an inspiration to me. He was one of the first Motown musicians that my mom and dad introduced me to, and I always thought it would be a good idea if I was ever an artist, and now I am, to make a record called 'Marvin Gaye.'

Charlie Puth

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#36. Someday, you need to build a business that's difficult to replicate. This is an important part of a good idea.

Sam Altman

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#37. Sequels are very rarely a good idea, and in any case, the success of the book changed my relationship with the club in some ways.

Nick Hornby

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#38. You kind of alluded to it in your introduction. I mean, for the last 300 or so years, the exact sciences have been dominated by what is really a good idea, which is the idea that one can describe the natural world using mathematical equations.

Stephen Wolfram

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#39. It's a good idea to review past mistakes before committing new ones.

Warren Buffett

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#40. They were smart enough to know that handing out superpowers like sweets to the general public was never going to be a good idea.
Not that that stopped it from happening anyway.

Violet Cross

A Good Idea Quotes #1328337
#41. I have often wondered who was the first person to realize that eating an artichoke was a good idea.

Chris Cosentino

A Good Idea Quotes #1313072
#42. I've always been interested in beauty. I studied it when I was 16 and 17, and I know it's a good idea to invest in something alongside my music.

Rebecca Ferguson

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#43. But then some asshat got voted into office who thought it'd be a good idea to let countries like North Korea and Iran develop nuclear arsenals.

M.D. Massey

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#44. It is a good idea for everyone who does not have contra-indications to receive a flu shot.

Amy Johnson

A Good Idea Quotes #1310305
#45. Sometimes when you mend a chain, the place where you fix it is strongest of all ... Never was a chain that couldn't be broken. Sometimes its even a good idea.

Bruce Coville

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#46. Create a good idea and leave it in the darkness; you will then see that people will come with the candles in their hands to find it, because just like the bad, the good has also a special scent!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

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#47. Our story opens where countless stories have ended in the last twenty-six years: with an idiot
in this case, my brother, Shaun
deciding it would be a good idea to go out and poke a zombie with a stick to see what happens.

Mira Grant

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#48. I would like to fly in space. Absolutely. That would be cool. I used to just do personally risky things, but now I've got kids and responsibilities, so I can't be my own test pilot. That wouldn't be a good idea. But I definitely want to fly as soon as it's a sensible thing to do.

Elon Musk

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#49. He felt blind and deaf, the way he did when he was close to a good idea but couldn't tap into it. He'd told Lizzie about that feeling once, and Lizzie had said, That just means you aren't very smart, Reeve. Smart people have good ideas without having to be blind and deaf first.

Caroline B. Cooney

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#50. Nakamura considered this. "I hesitate to agree, but that was probably a good idea."

"A compliment! My goodness, let me mark the day on my calendar!"

"That's why I hesitated to agree," Nakamura said with a note of weariness.

Kevin Sylvester

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#51. I think it's a good idea to take samples and live with them a little. So far I'm liking Creed's Spring Flower. I think I'm going to make it my regular scent.

Isabelle Fuhrman

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#52. A good idea turns every cog in your mind, making you scared of bed in case the whole machine grinds to a halt.

Trevor Baylis

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#53. A healthy amount of fear and respect might be a good idea

Haruki Murakami

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#54. When the customer is wrong it is not a good idea to tell them.

Garrison Wynn

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#55. You'll never regret writing any letter out of love. However, it's a good idea to reread anything you've written in anger.

Mary Matalin

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#56. I was always the kid at school who thought it was a good idea to set off the fire alarm. And much as I'm aware that that's a trait which also propels other things which are good, I wish I could just pause and go, 'Is this really what you want to do?'

James Corden

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#57. Basically, if you believe in Moore's Law, and you believe that hosting is going to become more and more commoditized over time, not being a host is a good idea.

Matt Mullenweg

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#58. A legislative entrepreneur ... doesn't just believe the right things. He's out there trying to make a good idea legislatively viable.

Matt Kibbe

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#59. Some days, a killing spree seems like a good idea.

Lilith Saintcrow

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#60. Having a hangover with small children is never a good idea. I did it once and it was the biggest mistake I've ever made, I've never felt so ill in my life. You have to get out of bed and look after your kid who doesn't care if you've got a sore head.

Sharleen Spiteri

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#61. Simplicity is not the goal. It is the by-product of a good idea and modest expectations.

Paul Rand

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#62. I guess that's one achievement I'm really proud of. Saving Chrysler was more than jobs, more than shareholder value. Saving Chrysler was a good idea for the whole country.

Lee Iacocca

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#63. I did not tell Fat this, but technically he had become a Buddha. It did not seem to me like a good idea to let him know. After all, if you are a Buddha you should be able to figure it out for yourself.

Philip K. Dick

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#64. From my training I can get a good idea of what I'm capable of.

Paula Radcliffe

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#65. Nowadays, my mood ungoverned, I'm free to think the most outrageous things, such as: might it not be a good idea to insist that drug companies give their preparations names that tell the user what they really do?

Will Self

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#66. I have a good idea every two years. Give me a topic, I will give you the idea!

Fritz Zwicky

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#67. If having a beautiful lawn means putting up warning signs several times a year to keep children and pets off of it, it's probably a good idea to look into alternatives.

Philippe Cousteau Jr.

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#68. Very few American parents give a crap about how they raise their kids. They put minimal effort into it. Who told you it's a good idea to buy a developing mind a video game?

Louis C.K.

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#69. I was at La Fenice opera house back in 1991 with friends, and we started talking about a conductor whom none of us liked. Somehow there was an escalation, and we started talking about how to kill him, where to kill him. This struck me as a good idea for a book.

Donna Leon

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#70. Killing was never a good idea unless there were no other ideas.

Richard Stark

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#71. To lead a successful life, then, it's a good idea to work out what you really want. Then get together some plans. Then set some goals.

John C. Parkin

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#72. A full mind is unlucky if a good idea comes to enter inside; an empty mind is unlucky if a bad idea comes to enter inside!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

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#73. The decision to go to the moon is now appreciated and associated with President Kennedy's speech, but somebody else had told him it was a good idea. It turned out to be a good commitment, but it was a unique situation.

Buzz Aldrin

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#74. The torch is a symbol of the Olympic Games, of peace and togetherness. It's a good idea. And this idea is being misused. I believe in the Olympic ideal and in the torch that symbolizes this ideal. We should be condemning not those who have this ideal, but those who try to destroy it.

Herbert Hainer

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#75. I guess working on 'Mad Men' turned me onto AMC and really got me watching the network, and so with that I got a good idea of the type of show they like to produce.

Eric Ladin

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#76. I like an occasional glass of wine, though I don't drink before a shoot or a show - blotchy skin is not a good idea, however good your make-up artist.

Jourdan Dunn

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#77. Page and I get offered everything: women, little boys, cocaine, the lot, to just go back and do that again. I don't think it would be a good idea at all. [But] I reserve judgment to change my mind in five years' time.

Robert Plant

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#78. It's a good idea to not get involved with somebody that you don't trust. That's for sure.

Madeline Zima

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#79. ARE YOU OUT OF YOUR MIND?! You tried to blow up your guardian angel?!"
"It seemed like a good idea at the time ...

S.L.J. Shortt

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#80. I ordered two Cokes - alcohol was not going to be a good idea - and took them over to our table. "How very gentlemanly," she said. "I just didn't want you to get me one and lace it with sedatives.

Steve McHugh

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#81. Skinny-dipping is like Paris. It's always a good idea.

Rebecca Paula

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#82. Humanism was not invented by man, but by a snake who suggested that the quest for autonomy might be a good idea.

R.C. Sproul

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#83. A good idea is something that does not solve just one single problem, but rather can solve multiple problems at once.

Shigeru Miyamoto

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#84. Sometimes a good idea comes to you when you are not looking for it. Through an improbable combination of coincidence, naivete and lucky mistakes ...

Kary Mullis

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#85. It took like 5 hours to complete my virgin Mary. I was raised Catholic and it seemed like a good idea.

The Rev

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#86. I was pretty far gone, but not so far gone that I thought anyone with half a toehold in reality would think what we were doing was a good idea.

Meg Rosoff

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#87. Go to bed when summers ends, what a good idea; wake up bright and early when birds announce its spring.

Francis Norris, 1st Earl Of Berkshire

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#88. Actually, abortion is part of being a mother and of caring for children, because part of caring for children is knowing when it's not a good idea to bring them into the world.

Katha Pollitt

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#89. In this flirtation he was conducting, he had had to rely entirely on his personality, never a good idea.

Jane Smiley

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#90. You have to be savvy to be a celebrity. You have to create a personality and shove that out. It just seems fatuous to me. Professionally, it's a good idea. But I can't do it.

Rupert Graves

A Good Idea Quotes #1041484
#91. I think daily deals are a good idea. Any ad people view as content is a good ad, and that's true for daily-deal ads too.

Matt Cohler

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#92. ... it seemed appropriate that I should develop some kind of illness. This is a good idea when you are at a loose end because everything, up to and including herpes, is better than being bored.

Jeremy Clarkson

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#93. It's always a good idea to chill your crab cake mixture for a few hours, or even overnight, before frying because they'll hold together better.

Tom Douglas

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#94. I think if you're going to remake a film it should be something that was a good idea, but wasn't executed well. There isn't anything I would like to remake. I have too many of my own ideas I want to make.

Rob Zombie

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#95. Sometimes it takes every weapon, every tactic, and every strength to get to what I call a good idea.

Sameh Elsayed

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#96. Communism is like prohibition, it is a good idea, but it won't work.

Will Rogers

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#97. ... a good idea always attracts other good ideas.

Patrick Ness

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#98. A poor idea well written is more likely to be accepted than a good idea poorly written

Isaac

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#99. I came up with a good idea ... see-through skin.

Karl Pilkington

A Good Idea Quotes #1022431
#100. Just because a movie is satisfactory means that the person who makes it is satisfactory. One can make a wonderful movie but still not be a wonderful person. In terms of interviews, it's probably not a good idea, because moviemakers tend not to tell the truth, even when asked a question.

Mamoru Oshii

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