Top 100 Quotes About Good Ideas
#1. It's hard to tell what an entire series is going to be based on the first few episodes, or even on the first season. And it's sad because you see great casts and good ideas that don't get that opportunity to grow and show what it could turn into.
Kaley Cuoco
#2. When I first heard about Y Combinator, it was one of those ideas that just seemed forehead-slappingly obvious. Good ideas often do, in retrospect.
Mark Fletcher
#3. Directors sometimes have good ideas that I wished I'd had, not on rewriting but simply on staging.
Tom Stoppard
#4. At Pixar, good ideas may be cut from a film, but they are never forgotten.
John Lasseter
#6. It's very productive scientifically; I often get some very good ideas for my research while hiking.
Reinhard Selten
#7. When good ideas get put to bad use, it is the fault of the user, not the idea.
Walter Darby Bannard
#8. Businesses are not just local or even national anymore - good ideas are immediately global. So the market opportunities are much larger than we've ever imagined or seen.
Alfred Lin
#9. Reading good books implants good ideas in the mind, develops good aspirations, and leads to the cultivation of good friends.
Mas Oyama
#10. ... a good idea always attracts other good ideas.
Patrick Ness
#11. If we are to achieve a world free from nuclear weapons, we need the involvement of young people. Youth have energy, enthusiasm and many good ideas to share. Most importantly, however, it is young people who will be inheriting the problems which have been left to them by the generations past.
Marc Kielburger
#12. One of the most difficult tasks of visioneering is distinguishing between good ideas and God ideas.
Andy Stanley
#13. In the housing projects, people talked of ways to reduce crime, relieve overcrowding, and they were good ideas that we plan to study, and possibly implement.
Jane Byrne
#14. Unbelieving image-bearers really do have a lot of good ideas. To deny this is an affront to the One Whose image they bear.
Steve Corbett
#15. There really was nothing like it at the time. We had good ideas for implementation, so we proceeded. I think it was an excellent solution to the reliability issues with existing search engines.
Shawn Fanning
#16. I write totally spontaneously. I actually write fiction by hand - that always seems to startle people. I think the reason I do that is to bypass the thinking part of me and get to the more unconscious part, which is where all the good ideas seem to be.
Jennifer Egan
#17. When a dish really hits a nerve with the American palate, it can really take off across the entire country, facilitated by food vendors' freedom to copy good ideas.
Jennifer Lee
#18. Sometimes things that seem like good ideas in theory, in practice turn out to be the worst kinds of boneheaded blunders.
Jean Ferris
#19. Without courage we will simply accumulate a collection of good ideas and regrets.
Andy Stanley
#20. Sometimes, it is not you who finds good ideas when you are seeking them. Instead, good ideas find you in the most unexpected circumstances.
Alberto Cairo
#21. The best ideas often look terrible at the beginning the truly good ideas, don't seem like they're worth stealing.
Sam Altman
#22. Finn said art isn't about drawing or painting a perfect bowl of fruit. It's about ideas. And you, he said, have enough good ideas to last a lifetime.
Carol Rifka Brunt
#23. Once a few Facebook employees put together a promising idea and start a company, that's very exciting to people. I happen to think being a Facebook employee is really correlated with good ideas.
Dustin Moskovitz
#24. Try this: Identify a bottom-up improvement or innovation in your organization, and interview the person who championed it. Chances are you will find a hero story of some kind. Why do we have to be heroes to implement perfectly good ideas?
Alan G. Robinson
#25. I respect Senator McCain a great deal and believe he has many - many good ideas and suggestions that I would certainly want to avail myself of if I were in a setting that - that required the input of other leaders. Senator McCain would be one of those that I'd want to hear from.
Mitt Romney
#26. The answer to the question "where do good ideas come from" is always the same, the come from bad ideas. If you come up with 20 bad ideas you get one good one.
Seth Godin
#27. Never give up. Don't let good ideas be buried with you. Breathe it. Dream it.
Live it and relentlessly pursue your ideas and ideals.
Without them you cannot achieve anything meaningful in life.
Li Cunxin
#28. Good ideas never require guns; and if an idea requires guns, it is not a good idea!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#29. The way you get good ideas is to do two things: 1) Read two hours a day. 2) Write ten ideas a day. By the end of a year, you will have read for almost one thousand hours and written down 3,600 ideas. One of these ideas will be a home run.
James Altucher
#30. All good ideas start out as bad ideas, that's why it takes so long.
Steven Spielberg
#31. Don't throw good ideas away until you've considered all of your options.
David Eddings
#32. Washington is a place where good ideas go to die.
Barack Obama
#33. 1. Quality land and natural resources 2. Intellectual property, or good ideas about what should be produced 3. Quality labor with unique skills
Tyler Cowen
#34. Reform is not for the short-winded. I'm committed to making sure the Senate is more than just a graveyard for good ideas.
Mark Udall
#35. People with evil ideas will think and do as they have learned, but those people with good ideas have the responsibility to show them the way of love, way of truth, and the way of peace.
Debasish Mridha
#36. Brainstorming sounds like a great idea, but it doesn't work. Dozens of studies have demonstrated this conclusively. People produce more good ideas - twice as many - alone than they do together. One problem with brainstorming is
Eric Weiner
#37. GOOD IDEAS ALTER THE BALANCE IN RELATIONSHIPS. THAT IS WHY GOOD IDEAS ARE ALWAYS INITIALLY RESISTED.
Hugh MacLeod
#38. The trick to having good ideas is not to sit around in glorious isolation and try to think big thoughts. The trick is to get more parts on the table.
Steven Johnson
#39. Good ideas come from everywhere. It's more important to recognize a good idea than to author it.
Jeanne Gang
#40. My good ideas are shy. But if they see that I treat the stupid ideas with respect, they come forward.
Gail Carson Levine
#41. One "God idea" in ministry is better than a thousand good ideas.
J.D. Greear
#42. Your job is to collect good ideas. The more good ideas you collect, the more you can choose from to be influenced by.
Austin Kleon
#43. The world is full of good ideas, but without passionate commitment, they are worth little and go nowhere.
Harrison Owen
#44. During intellectual droughts one shower of good ideas can cause a flash-flood to wash away the roads your habits travel.
Bryant McGill
#45. Good ideas are often murdered by better ones.
Roddy Doyle
#46. Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into practice with courageous patience.
Hyman Rickover
#48. I don't hear record companies coming up with any good ideas or suggestions. Historically, if it ain't their idea, it ain't no good, so you got that to contend with.
Levon Helm
#49. Don't mistake assertiveness or eloquence for good ideas.
Susan Cain
#50. Good ideas, as we have seen, are not always well received, especially if there are too many of them.
Meredith Belbin
#51. If Jesus is the Son of God, his teachings are more than just good ideas from a wise teacher; they are divine insights on which I can confidently build my life.
Lee Strobel
#52. 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
#53. Galvani was mistaken about the amount of electricity in frogs, but he had some good ideas, too, for the galvanometer is named in his honor, and you don't have galvanometers named after you merely for making a mistake about a frog.
Will Cuppy
#54. We shouldn't be looking for heroes, we should be looking for good ideas.
Noam Chomsky
#55. Rock 'n' Roll is a combination of good ideas dried up by fads, terrible junk, hideous failings in taste and judgment, gullibility and manipulation, moments of unbelievable clarity and invention, pleasure, fun, vulgarity, excess, novelty and utter enervation.
Greil Marcus
#56. The most important question of the 21st century is not what or how much, it is 'How?' How do you propose to turn your good ideas into positive changes in other people's lives? You must be the 'how generation.'
William J. Clinton
#57. When something has to be done, do it! In France we are full of good ideas, but we rarely put them into practice.
Bernard Arnault
#59. It as if you took a lot of very good food and some dog excrement and blended it all up so that you can't possibly figure out what's good or bad. It's an intimate mixture of rubbish and good ideas, and it's very hard to disentangle the two, because these are smart people; they're not stupid.
Douglas Hofstadter
#60. The two are not mutually exclusive, but we think we can have wealth without good ideas and without values and without a clear vision. Wealth without vision is insanity.
Andrew Young
#61. If you want to have good ideas you must have many ideas.
Linus Pauling
#62. That's the key to new and good ideas; they come from having a very broad and multidisciplinary range of interests.
Robin Chase
#63. But this is war. We don't have the luxury of good ideas - only picking between the bad ones.
Sarah J. Maas
#64. Don't use your mind for a filing cabinet. Use your mind to work out problems and find answers; file away good ideas in your journal.
Jim Rohn
#65. You can talk good ideas out of existence.
Vikram Seth
#67. The way to have good ideas is to get close to killing yourself. It's like weightlifting. When you lift slightly more than you can handle, you get stronger. In life, when the gun is to your head, you either figure it out, or you die.
Claudia Azula Altucher
#68. I bet the people who are in the auto industry right now have more than 10,000 good ideas about what might work and what we need to do is not come up with more good ideas. We need to go and test as many of those good ideas as possible.
Eric Ries
#69. Hundreds of people who've never written before send in 'Dr. Who' scripts. They may have good ideas, but what they fail to realise is that writing for TV is incredibly complicated. They have no idea how difficult it is and what the financial commitment is.
Douglas Adams
#70. Good ideas had in the dark, he thought with a groan, were generally best left there.
Alexandra Bracken
#71. Many a time, we let go of some really good ideas just because we feel they are too controversial.
Abhishek Ratna
#72. There's no such thing as good ideas and bad ideas. There are only your own ideas and other people's. If you want someone to like your idea, tell him he said it first last week and you just remembered it.
Scott Adams
#73. You force people to stop asking questions, and before you know it they have auctioned off the question mark, or sold it for scrap. No boldness. No good ideas for fixing what's broken in the land. Because if you happen to mention it's broken, you are automatically disqualified.
Barbara Kingsolver
#74. I've always had the opinion that we have shamelessly stolen any good ideas,
Brad Stone
#75. I don't like to be told what to do at all. That's unfortunate because a lot of people come up with good ideas and can direct you.
Grace Slick
#76. It's three disparate elements: the stop sign, the stage paintings, and the skeleton paintings. Those are three sharp ideas, although none of them are necessarily good ideas. Tons of artists have made whole careers out of those three ideas.
Josh Smith
#77. I have some ideas on how to fix that. They're not very good ideas, but at least they're ideas!
Adam Savage
#78. Ordinary people who have lots of good ideas want more than a suggestion box, and they need a union to represent that thinking.
Frances O'Grady
#79. I fancy that no good ideas upon that campaign will be mentioned at any time that did not receive their share of consideration by General Lee.
James Longstreet
#80. Dressing up is inevitably a substitute for good ideas. It is no coincidence that techincally inept business types are known as suits.
Paul Graham
#81. Really good ideas are always good beyond what you anticipated originally.
David Gelernter
#82. I realized ceativity is a renewable resource. You never run out of good ideas
Biz Stone
#83. Well they have an input into policy but in the end governments are elected to put together policy but the good thing about the Wentworth Group is that you know you've got 11 pretty capable people with a lot of good ideas.
John Anderson
#84. Romer's idea, like all good ideas, was very simple: false information can be just as useful, influential, as telling, transforming or as damaging as true information.
William Boyd
#85. The problem isn't so much finding good ideas (there is no shortage) as embedding the ones we have into everyday practice.
Alain De Botton
#86. walk away with a more thorough knowledge of the subject, hopefully have found the answer to a question, or be given some good ideas to help in a situation relevant to them.
Passive Income Secrets
#87. There are plenty of good ideas, if only they can be backed with the power of action.
Winston Churchill
#88. Every day thousands of people bury good ideas because they are afraid to act on them.
And afterwards, the ghosts of these ideas come back to haunt them.
David J. Schwartz
#89. The next best thing to having good ideas is recognizing good ideas from your users. Sometimes the latter is better.
Eric S. Raymond
#90. Animations are really powerful - it's not just entertainment, it's a very cunning way to get good ideas across.
Benedict Cumberbatch
#92. I've come to realize that most good ideas are precisely the ones you can't describe.
Mark Haddon
#93. When you're glad to be alive, good ideas come. The reason good ideas don't come today is because we're all bottled up with greed and anger. We're mad.
Ray Manzarek
#94. We wanted to be as expansive as possible to make sure we didn't preclude some good ideas.
John Poindexter
#95. My mind contains many good ideas, but it's not always easy to squeeze one out.
Ashleigh Brilliant
#96. We were young, but we had good advice and good ideas and lots of enthusiasm.
Bill Gates
#97. I would acknowledge that [Paul] Ryan has some really good ideas about things, and I think they'll get together, like taxes. Larry Kudlow, Stephen Moore, they've been supportive of Ryan's tax view and now they're very supportive of [Donald] Trump's. So I think that's got potential.
Jeff Sessions
#98. passionless good ideas are not only useless, they are a liability.
Harrison Owen
#99. Clearly, it wasn't enough for managers to have good ideas - they had to be able to engender support for those ideas among the people who'd be charged with employing them.
Ed Catmull
#100. Usually, the best ideas come from other people's good ideas, which then, after a short gestation period, become your ideas.
Amy Sedaris
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