Quotes About Failed Ideas

#1. The Republican Party seems unwilling and unable to offer solutions to the crises we are facing, other than pitching the same failed ideas that got us into the mess we are in the first place.

Arianna Huffington

#2. Let us not judge others, because we simply don't know that had we lived their life, we might be exactly the same.

Hal Elrod

#3. My father, a ruined dandy from the South, had been reduced to keeping a small harness-repair shop and, when that failed, he became ostensibly a house-and-barn painter. However, he did not call himself a house-painter. The idea was not flashy enough for him. He called himself a sign-writer.

Sherwood Anderson

#4. When communism failed, it wasn't a good idea that had gone wrong, it was a bad idea that had been sustained with incredible determination in the face of all the commonsense arguments, and at the cost of 20 million lives at least, in Russia, to build the socialist Utopia.

Martin Amis

#5. If you can't take a little bloody nose, maybe you ought to go back home, and crawl under your bed. It's not safe out here! It's wondrous...with treasures to satiate desires both subtle and gross; but it's not for the timid.

Q

#6. We must conclude that it is not only a particular political ideology that has failed, but the idea that men and women could ever define themselves in terms that exclude their spiritual needs.

Salman Rushdie

#7. I'm quite a neurotic thinker, quite an adrenalized person. But after meditation, I felt this beautiful serenity and selfless connection.

Russell Brand

#8. American education has been littered with failed fads and foolish ideas for the past century.

Diane Ravitch

#9. If for a while the harder you try, the harder it gets, take heart. So it has been with the best people who ever lived. (The Inconvenient Messiah, BYU Speeches, Feb 15, 1982)

Jeffrey R. Holland

#10. You were saved because you were the first.
You were saved because you were the last.
Alone. With others.
On the right. The left.
Because it was raining. Because of the shade.
Because the day was sunny.

Wislawa Szymborska

#11. If you think you can execute a previously failed idea, you just have to be able to show that now is the time.

Marc Andreessen

#12. Sometimes I was so busy being tuned in to outside ideas, expectations, and demands, I failed to hear the unique music in my soul. I forfeited my ability to listen creatively to my deepest self, to my own God within.

Sue Monk Kidd

#13. It is once your ideas have been transformed into enough money, and if all failed, you would still live your lifestyle, and you understand that just because you have made more money than most, you are not better than the common person. We are all going to die broke.

Tim Blixseth

#14. I failed to fulfill what should have been an interesting role. I couldn't take their formula and bring what I had, my humor, my ideas, and make it my own.

Dianne Wiest

#15. My attempts to demonstrate evolution by an experiment carried on for more than 40 years have completely failed ... It is not even possible to make a caricature of an evolution out of paleobiological facts ... The idea of an evolution rests on pure belief.

Nils Heribert-Nilsson

#16. And thus they selectively remember parts of their life, focusing on those parts that support their own points of view.

Carol Tavris

#17. Is the button white or orange or green or yellow? Does it say 'sell', or 'sell now', or 'on sale' or 'for sale'? You test, you test, you test and most of the ideas you try fail and so I would argue I failed my way to success.

Fabrice Grinda

#18. What I am really interested in is that I want people to be thinking in other ways - to stop thinking they have to remain glued to a system that has failed and to ideas about society that's necessarily about being run by Democrats or Republicans.

Alice Walker

#19. One of the best ways to stop the failed policies coming out of Congress is to bring in the ideas and the involvement of the American people, which the America Speaking Out project is designed to do.

Peter Roskam

#20. A little roving, solitary thing.

Charlotte Bronte

#21. Groups that were able to put their by-product gods to some good use had an advantage over groups that failed to do so, and so their ideas (not their genes) spread.

Jonathan Haidt

#22. Start a personal blog and begin developing a public reputation and public portfolio of work that's not tied to your employer.

Reid Hoffman

#23. The web is a meritocracy, where passion and persistence are what place us in positions of influence.

Anonymous

#24. Edd, fetch me a block.

George R R Martin

#25. The President today once again took the opportunity to reiterate his old, failed national security strategies and present them to the American people as new, dynamic ideas intended to better protect the American people.

Ellen Tauscher

#26. No, I haven't failed thousands of times. On the contrary, I have successfully eliminated thousands of ideas that do not work!

Thomas A. Edison

#27. I have not failed. I have successfully discovered 1200 ideas that don't work.

Thomas A. Edison

#28. I cannot face the idea of life without work. What would one do when ideas failed or words refused to come? It is impossible not to shudder at the thought.

Sigmund Freud

#29. I failed, he said, I got talking my ideas. It's my greatest failing.

Walter Van Tilburg Clark

#30. It was wrong to allow Stalin to shape the European landscape of the 20th century. It would be even more wrong to let him shape the landscape of the 21st century.

Lawrence Summers

#31. A lot of ideas get re-used and made part of new songs if the first version didn't cut the mustard, and the stuff that gets left off usually contained the germ of something good but failed to reach a satisfactory state by the recording stage.

Bent Saether

#32. No man is a good citizen, a good neighbor, a good friend, or a good man just because he obeys the law. The intrinsic worth is determined mainly by the intrinsic make-up.

Clarence Darrow

#33. Good ideas in psychology usually have an oddly familiar quality, and the moment we encounter them we feel certain that we once came close to thinking the same thing ourselves and simply failed to write it down.

David G. Myers