Top 100 Great Ideas Sayings

#1. You think you have this great idea that everyone's going to come join, but that's not how it works.

Sam Altman

Great Ideas Sayings #5141
#2. Any idea can be a great idea if you think differently, dream big and commit to seeing it realized

Richard Branson

Great Ideas Sayings #5492
#3. Grade A objectivity won't come from those who are closest to us. It will come from outsiders. That's where we'll find divergent thinking, unexpected questions, novel ideas, differences of opinion, and added expertise.

David Sturt

Great Ideas Sayings #9633
#4. The idea of vegetarianism is of immense value; it is based on great reverence for life.

Rajneesh

Great Ideas Sayings #14753
#5. take unorthodox ideas seriously today, and the mainstream sees that as a sign of progress. We can be glad that there are fewer crazy cults now, yet that gain has come at great cost: we have given up our sense of wonder at secrets left to be discovered.

Peter Thiel

Great Ideas Sayings #21360
#6. Human misery universally arises from some error that man admits as true. We confound our fears with the idea feared, and place the evil in the thing seen or believed. Here is a great error, for we never see what we are afraid of.

Phineas Quimby

Great Ideas Sayings #26268
#7. I need a challenge. I need the intellectual stimulation. I'm a member of a community on each film, working in concert to try to bring an idea to life. It's a great job.

Harrison Ford

Great Ideas Sayings #27196
#8. The story of practically every great fortune starts with the day when a creator of ideas and a seller of ideas got together and worked in harmony.

Napoleon Hill

Great Ideas Sayings #29566
#9. Einstein was a great advocate of the notion that good ideas look absurd at the beginning. Camus expressed a similar view.

Michael Leunig

Great Ideas Sayings #35048
#10. Great actors try to dismiss all ideas from their conscious mind in order to provide an experience that is real.

Mark Rylance

Great Ideas Sayings #36704
#11. If you have a great day at work and you've been hit with all these great ideas and there's a lot of excitement on your team, your mind doesn't turn off. For years I've kept a pad of paper and pen by me at night, because things just occur to you.

Anne Sweeney

Great Ideas Sayings #36770
#12. Our society is the product of several great religious and philosophical traditions. The ideas of the Greeks and Romans, Christianity, Judaism, humanism and the Enlightenment have made us who we are.

Jan Peter Balkenende

Great Ideas Sayings #36817
#13. No matter what happens to you in life, you just roll with it. And then, when we went back to shoot Eclipse, I went to Quileute and taught some acting to the kids, and just got to spend some time in the community, which was great because it gave me an idea of where Emily came from.

Tinsel Korey

Great Ideas Sayings #44517
#14. Great companies don't throw money at problems, they throw ideas at problems.

Greg McAdoo

Great Ideas Sayings #44897
#15. Do you know that all great spurts in ... progress came just after some unorthodox ideas or exotic impressions had penetrated into a closed system?

Anatol Rapoport

Great Ideas Sayings #48335
#16. I don't think Philadelphia's challenge is in coming up with great ideas or having great founders. I think the real challenge is keeping them here.

Josh Kopelman

Great Ideas Sayings #48995
#17. I call it predicament humor. You don't do anything that cuts the star off at the knees or worse. You make him intelligent; you give him great ideas and great things to do.

Glen A. Larson

Great Ideas Sayings #64423
#18. The religion itself may have some great ideas, but I can't take it seriously if it's blatantly exclusionary.

David O. Russell

Great Ideas Sayings #64814
#19. I've just looked for ideas and great characters that I relate to and that I think I can offer something to the audience, and I no longer look at them as experiments or genre exercises at all.

Ron Howard

Great Ideas Sayings #70283
#20. It is already a great thing if the main ideas and general outline of a work come without any racking of brains, as the result of that supernatural and inexplicable force we call inspiration.

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

Great Ideas Sayings #71146
#21. Senior men have no monopoly on great ideas. Nor do creative people. Some of the best ideas come from account executives, researchers and others. Encourage this, you need all the ideas you can get.

David Ogilvy

Great Ideas Sayings #76711
#22. Great men may die, but there ideas won't.

Kelly Nelson

Great Ideas Sayings #77131
#23. If you want to hire great people and have them stay, you have to be run by ideas, not hierarchy. The best ideas have to win.

Steve Jobs

Great Ideas Sayings #78257
#24. In the future, as in the past, the great ideas [of mathematics] must be simplifying ideas, the creator must always be one who clarifies, for himself, and for others, the most complicated issues of formulas and concepts.

Andre Weil

Great Ideas Sayings #78659
#25. The whole process of writing a novel is having this great, beautiful idea and then spoiling it.

Diane Johnson

Great Ideas Sayings #98686
#26. Photography is there to construct the idea of us as a great family and we go on vacations and take these pictures and then we look at them later and we say, 'Isn't this a great family?' So photography is instrumental in creating family not only as a memento, a souvenir, but also a kind of mythology.

Larry Sultan

Great Ideas Sayings #100858
#27. To die for one's great ideas is glorious - and easy. The horror is to outlive them. That is our worst capability.

Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie

Great Ideas Sayings #100870
#28. History is a great cemetery: men, deeds, ideas are always dying as soon as they are born.

Simone De Beauvoir

Great Ideas Sayings #103337
#29. I don't think there's a shortage of remarkable ideas. I think your business has plenty of great opportunities to do great things. Nope, what's missing isn't the ideas. It's the will to execute them.

Seth Godin

Great Ideas Sayings #103731
#30. You have a great name .. They must kill your name before they can kill you , cuz name is your idea , and ideas are bulletproofs )

Hamza Wolf

Great Ideas Sayings #115168
#31. Not only is it a great concept and a great idea
helping people
it's good pizza too!

Matt Lauer

Great Ideas Sayings #115814
#32. With comedy, you never know until you put it in front of an audience. You shoot it and a year later you have no idea if it's going to work. And then you get the response. It's great when it's good.

Steve Martin

Great Ideas Sayings #121612
#33. Being a writer in Hollywood is like going to Hitler's Eagle Nest with a great idea for a bar mitzvah.

David Mamet

Great Ideas Sayings #123852
#34. It distresses me deeply that ideas are not to be circulated freely in the USA if certain persons have their way. One of the things that was great about this country was that I could say anything and that everyone else could say anything and we would compare all possible ideas and arrive at opinions.

Kurt Vonnegut

Great Ideas Sayings #124964
#35. Thoughts and ideas are the source of all wealth, success, material gain, all great discoveries, inventions and achievements

Mark Victor Hansen

Great Ideas Sayings #125584
#36. Capitalism is a great idea in theory, but in practice it just doesn't work.

Jeremy Hardy

Great Ideas Sayings #125959
#37. It's great when a huge amount of money goes from a dumb corporation into the hands of an awesome band with brilliant ideas who can use it to keep being a band for a year, as opposed to a band that's already huge taking one of those things - that's more pathetic.

Alex Scally

Great Ideas Sayings #132855
#38. During the summer of 2009, the debate on health care reform was emotional and intense. At its best, it represented the free exchange of ideas that makes this country great. At its worst, it generated death threats and acts of violence.

Chellie Pingree

Great Ideas Sayings #133471
#39. All great ideas are dangerous.

Oscar Wilde

Great Ideas Sayings #133880
#40. Let me tell you, people go on and on about what a great idea electricity was, but I'm going to put toilet paper right next to the wheel and say those are the best ideas anyone's ever had. Scoff at it if you will, but try living for two millennia without it and then we'll talk.

Kevin Hearne

Great Ideas Sayings #134044
#41. But I already saw no great difference between the psyche and spirituality. To amass knowledge without becoming wise is not my idea of progress in therapy.

M. Scott Peck

Great Ideas Sayings #136419
#42. I always start from scratch with a character - they're never based on anyone else. You get ideas of what people look like, and I'm a great people watcher. You can draw inspiration from people.

Amanda Burton

Great Ideas Sayings #139649
#43. A great life starts and steadies with a great mind that is open to new ideas, fierce in defense of truth, and always eager to learn.

Toni Sorenson

Great Ideas Sayings #141718
#44. Since many things we see were once an idea, let us create good ideas today because they will be the realities of tomorrow! When you create an idea, do not forget that you shape the future! Idea is your God side! With ideas, you can change the universe, but only with very great ideas!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

Great Ideas Sayings #142863
#45. There was all this enthusiasm about amateurism and the idea that people could now just make videos in their bedroom, or blog news stories and share it online, and isn't this great? Now we can do it just for the love of it and not try to be professionals, corrupted by careerism.

Astra Taylor

Great Ideas Sayings #145583
#46. It is not sufficient for the young to devote their enthusiasm, their courage, their ambition, their self-sacrifice to the great ideas of the time; the young must not only preserve but increase their powers if they are to be really equal to their eternal task: that of drawing the age in advance.

Ellen Key

Great Ideas Sayings #147472
#47. One doesn't begin to be a Christian because of an ethical decision or a great idea, but rather because of an encounter with an event, with a Person, who gives new horizons to life, and with that, a decisive orientation.

Pope Benedict XVI

Great Ideas Sayings #151891
#48. It's not how great the ideas are. It's about how you write them, to make them great.

Primadonna Angela

Great Ideas Sayings #157092
#49. Everybody has his own great ideas about what my art should be. But I can do whatever I like and there aren't many constraints to the way I work, whether I'm using a brush with ink or paint.

Raymond Pettibon

Great Ideas Sayings #158435
#50. What's most important in animation is the emotions and the ideas being portrayed. I'm a great believer of energy and emotion.

Ralph Bakshi

Great Ideas Sayings #166521
#51. Inside the calm minds, great ideas swim serenely like the morning geese of the misty lakes!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

Great Ideas Sayings #167390
#52. we hear brilliant and great suggestions when failure comes our way

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Great Ideas Sayings #175726
#53. I love working with Darren Lynn Bousman. He is such a cool director with really great ideas.

Alexa Vega

Great Ideas Sayings #178102
#54. It is a matter of great indifference to me what criticism is printed in the papers and the magazines. I am simply working out my own ideas in my own way.

Marcel Duchamp

Great Ideas Sayings #178271
#55. What one great idea resonates deeper in the soul than any other ... that we are free to choose. Next to life itself, the power to choose is your greatest gift.

Stephen Covey

Great Ideas Sayings #180644
#56. Adrian Maben came to us with the idea. And we just thought, "Well, why not?" I don't think any of us thought it would be as well received and last in people's minds for as long as it did. All credit to him. It's his idea [Pink Floyd at Pompeii] and it was great.

David Gilmour

Great Ideas Sayings #181735
#57. A great door opened by God for work, but while I'm doing the work, all Hell breaks loose. Oh! The idea that when God opens a door and He's with you, you don't have to fight. Oh, what a joke. That is a joke. In fact, if you don't feel the devil fighting against you, that's a bad sign.

Jim Cymbala

Great Ideas Sayings #187038
#58. History is littered with people who came up with great ideas and saw others profit from them. You need to make sure you don't join their ranks.

Joey Reiman

Great Ideas Sayings #190425
#59. I'm not an academic, but I'm someone who has a great passion for science and wants to convey the idea that science is for everyone.

Dallas Campbell

Great Ideas Sayings #191241
#60. The essential key for writing is to write regularly - like it or not - great ideas come often by writing; releasing the subconscious - waiting for inspiration and ideas will not work, but it does help to have a notebook with you all the time for sudden brainstorms or inspiration.

Robert Marc Friedman

Great Ideas Sayings #193627
#61. It's difficult for a company to be anywhere interesting in a world that is so dominated by prototypes and great and bright ideas.

Marcel Wanders

Great Ideas Sayings #195636
#62. Some people have great ideas maybe once or twice in their life, and then they discover electricity or fire or outer space or something. I mean, the kind of brilliant ideas that change the whole world.
Some people never have them at all ... I get them two or three times a week.

Neil Gaiman

Great Ideas Sayings #200169
#63. Always, at every period, the few were the banner bearers of a great idea, of liberating effort. Not so the mass, the leaden weight of which does not let it move.

Emma Goldman

Great Ideas Sayings #203458
#64. We are always looking for a grand program of action full of great ideas, when the thing is to begin by obeying the little ideas.

Paul Tournier

Great Ideas Sayings #205823
#65. In the history of medicine, it is not always the great scientist or the learned doctor who goes forward to discover new fields, new avenues, new ideas.

Elizabeth Kenny

Great Ideas Sayings #206480
#66. Ridicule has historically proven itself a rickety fence for great ideas.

Vanna Bonta

Great Ideas Sayings #206490
#67. We are very slow to recognise in the peculiar physiognomy of a new writer the model which is labelled "great talent" in our museum of general ideas.

Marcel Proust

Great Ideas Sayings #210587
#68. Right Question can lead to some great ideas,

Kevin P. Coyne

Great Ideas Sayings #213870
#69. Once again a new world view is arising ... This idea is the culmination of all human history. It holds the promise of fulfilling the great aspirations of the past and heralds the advent of the next phase of our evolution. It is the idea of conscious evolution.

Barbara Marx Hubbard

Great Ideas Sayings #214739
#70. Human beings only learn by observing and copying. What does this really mean? It means that your friends will only tell you that your ideas are great once you succeed and never before that. Expecting someone's approval is a waste of time.

Robin Sacredfire

Great Ideas Sayings #226386
#71. Writers are sponges. They absorb life, then squeeze and ring it out onto a page. Sometimes, if they squeeze too hard, they dry up. Not hard enough and they remain saturated, heavy and unpredictable, as they carry around a volume of ideas too great for their capacity.

Sarah Colliver

Great Ideas Sayings #231559
#72. A great idea is simply the combination of many good ideas.

John C. Maxwell

Great Ideas Sayings #234106
#73. All we are is our ideas, or people. That's what keeps us going to work in the morning, to hang around these great bright people. I've always thought that recruiting is the heart and soul of what we do.

Steve Jobs

Great Ideas Sayings #236121
#74. My parents really instilled this idea in me of being your own person, almost to the extent that I couldn't do wrong. I'd get a bad grade and they'd be like, "No! What you did was great!"

Winona Ryder

Great Ideas Sayings #243265
#75. The great majority of men use their own short-sighted ideas as a yardstick for measuring the divine omnipotence.

Therese Of Lisieux

Great Ideas Sayings #248521
#76. Dress is the great business of all women, and the fixed idea of some.

Alphonse Karr

Great Ideas Sayings #253736
#77. I think it's false, shallow, to be giving to others when your own need is great. The idea is not to comfort people, not to make them feel better but to make them feel worse, to constantly put before them the degradations and humiliations they go through to get what they call a living wage.

John Lennon

Great Ideas Sayings #253742
#78. In our office, we have a whiteboard with all of our ideas and things we want to write on it - great ideas we have that we haven't had the time to get around to yet.

Erich Hoeber

Great Ideas Sayings #255383
#79. I got an idea: people like news why don't we write the news down on a piece of paper, and we'll gas them up and drive them to everyone's house. I mean, if you were going to say that now, it doesn't sound like a great idea, because there are other ways you can distribute the news.

Biz Stone

Great Ideas Sayings #257073
#80. Watch yourself. Every minute we change. It is a great opportunity. At any point, we can step out of our frozen selves and our ideas and begin fresh.

Natalie Goldberg

Great Ideas Sayings #258605
#81. You want an idea about what you can say. I know it sounds like a bad idea but here's specifically why its actually a great one. You want to sound crazy but you want to ask to be right.

Sam Altman

Great Ideas Sayings #260741
#82. The idea - the core idea of humanism - is that the act of reading about great deeds will lead you to imitate them,..

Stanley Fish

Great Ideas Sayings #261127
#83. You know, we certainly have a great budget on the show, but the expansions to world of the show really arise because, and this is kind of the idea of the premise of the show, where is each week you're kind of meeting ... It's random access.

Jonathan Nolan

Great Ideas Sayings #262488
#84. The great muckraker Upton Sinclair had expressed a deep insight into the relationship between the world of ideas and the world of practical men: 'It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.'34

John Kay

Great Ideas Sayings #263204
#85. Great art would have 'head': it would have interesting intellectual ideas and concepts. It would have 'heart' in that it would have passion and heart and soul. And it would have 'hand' in that it would be greatly crafted.

Shea Hembrey

Great Ideas Sayings #269267
#86. If I find a great idea, I work on it at the beginning, then bring in other people to make things work. Actually, I've always been good at getting out of work.

Paul Orfalea

Great Ideas Sayings #271490
#87. In the time of to Augustine, the conversation in the West mostly had been a Christian reaction to outside ideas. After Augustine, the Great Conversation would be about his ideas for centuries.

John Mark Reynolds

Great Ideas Sayings #271744
#88. One belief, more than any other, is responsible for the slaughter of individuals on the alter of the great historical ideas - justice or progress or happiness of future generations ... or emancipation of a nation or race or class ... this is the belief that somewhere ... there is a final solution.

Isaiah Berlin

Great Ideas Sayings #274062
#89. All persons possessing any portion of power ought to be strongly and awfully impressed with an idea that they act in trust, and that they are to account for their conduct in that trust to the one great Master, Author, and Founder of society.

Edmund Burke

Great Ideas Sayings #276634
#90. There was absolutely no intention of splitting up. We had so many great ideas to use on the new album. John Paul Jones was incredible, coming to the studio each day with new instruments to play.

John Bonham

Great Ideas Sayings #281740
#91. We have such a great depth of human history in all of the arts, whether it's opera or mathematics or painting or classical music or jazz. There's so many things to study, new books to read, and certainly always ways to transform old ideas and to come up with new ones.

Patti Smith

Great Ideas Sayings #285347
#92. The United States was a great power less because of its ideas than because, with direct access to the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, it was "the most favored state in the world from the point of view of location.

Robert D. Kaplan

Great Ideas Sayings #291215
#93. If you think success is about so many more things and is so much more arbitrary, then you can be much more open to the idea that you can be Ben Fountain and publish your great book at forty-nine.

Malcolm Gladwell

Great Ideas Sayings #291629
#94. Money is attracted to great ideas.

Robert G. Allen

Great Ideas Sayings #294288
#95. The host of men who stand between a great thinker and the average man are not automatic transmitters. They work on the ideas; perhaps that is why a genius usually hates his disciples.

Walter Lippmann

Great Ideas Sayings #295842
#96. I didn't want to be precious about things. Of course, the idea is to make great music, but if you have great musicians up there, it gives me some leeway to play around a little bit.

Fiona Apple

Great Ideas Sayings #302285
#97. It may be easily shown, and is of no small significance, that the two great ideas of which the Anglo-Saxon is the exponent are having a fuller development in the United States than in Great Britain.

Josiah Strong

Great Ideas Sayings #302650
#98. My great idea is that we must forgive the Pope. First of all, he needs it more than anyone else. Besides, it is the only way of placing oneself above him.

Albert Camus

Great Ideas Sayings #302770
#99. I think ideas are still the most powerful things on the planet, and music is a great way to transmit them.

David Crosby

Great Ideas Sayings #303535
#100. The idea of being a rock and roll musician sort of suited my talents and mentality. The freedom was great, but then I found out I wasn't free. I'd got boxed in ... The whole Beatle thing is just beyond comprehension ... subconsciously I was crying for help.

John Lennon

Great Ideas Sayings #304702

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