Top 100 Sayings About Bad Ideas
#1. Isn't that a bad idea?" "Bad ideas don't work.
Amanda Heger
#2. Everything worthwhile is a good idea, but did you ever notice there is more bad ideas that will work than there is good ones?
Will Rogers
#3. Take time to reflect, let ideas flow on their own schedule and let yourself have numerous bad ideas to inspire the good ones.
Joanie Connell
#4. Like most bad ideas, it started with alcohol.
Cy Wyss
#5. The Republicans released their 'Pledge to America.' It's 21 pages of phony charts and bad ideas. Sarah Palin got a copy, and she said, 'How am I supposed to fit all this crap on my hand?
Bill Maher
#6. Good ideas come from bad ideas, but only if there are enough of them.
Seth Godin
#7. Usually after finishing a novel, I have a head full of bad ideas for the next one.
Charles McCarry
#8. In a rising market, enough of your bad ideas will pay off so that you'll never learn that you should have fewer ideas.
Daniel Kahneman
#9. Fail fast. Fail often ... The most talented people in the world have bad ideas. That's a good thing to learn.
Rashida Jones
#10. It is staggering the amount of suffering caused by bad ideas.
Marty Rubin
#11. Annie took another sip of the vodka, letting the alcohol seep through her system, turning bad ideas into good ones.
Kevin Wilson
#12. The web is just a device by which bad ideas travel around the globe at the speed of light.
P. J. O'Rourke
#13. It's not that I don't know that it's a bad idea. It's that, lately, bad ideas have a particular hold over me.
Holly Black
#14. Among all the nonsense, mistakes, and bad ideas we come up with, maybe some truth will sneak in.
Henning Mankell
#15. Bad ideas flourish because they are in the interest of powerful groups
Paul Krugman
#16. Really bad ideas, but they're ideas. Today
Andy Weir
#17. You see a lot of good ideas or well-written scripts that are bad ideas.
John McTiernan
#18. I think of myself as a bad writer with big ideas, but I'd rather be that than a big writer with bad ideas.
Michael Moorcock
#19. Books won't stay banned. They won't burn. Ideas won't go to jail. In the long run of history, the censor and the inquisitor have always lost. The only sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas. The source of better ideas is wisdom. The surest path to wisdom is a liberal education.
Alfred Whitney Griswold
#20. Almost everything wrong with our health care system comes from government interference with the free market. If the health care system is broken, then fix it. Don't try to invent a new one premised on all the bad ideas that are causing problems in the first place.
Ann Coulter
#22. America, you are full of nothing but bad ideas. Great intentions but awful ideas.
Kiera Cass
#23. Stick around. I'm full of bad ideas.
Isaac
#24. Big companies have trouble with innovation. Innovation is about bad ideas, or ideas that look like bad ideas. That's the fundamental thing.
Ben Horowitz
#25. If you give people literacy, bad ideas can be attacked and experiments tried, and lessons will accumulate.
Steven Pinker
#26. Islam, at the moment, is the motherlode of bad ideas.
Sam Harris
#29. It's not the bad ideas that do you in, but the good ones.
Charlie Munger
#30. As far as bad ideas went, this stole the prize.
Julia Quinn
#31. One way to become creative is to discipline yourself to generate bad ideas. The worse the better. Do it a lot and magically you'll discover that some good ones slip through.
Seth Godin
#32. It shook up Trout to realize that even he could bring evil into the world - in the form of bad ideas.
Kurt Vonnegut
#33. I cannot abide red tape. It never strangles bad ideas, only good ones.
Gillian Anderson
#35. Fascism is relatively easy to explain. It is a reactionary phenomenon. Nazism was some bad guys having some bad ideas and unfortunately succeeding in realizing them.
Slavoj Zizek
#36. Bad ideas are sometimes necessary." It sounds so much like an excuse, it's such an addict thing to say, that it makes my skin crawl.
Tess Sharpe
#38. Null Spot the Destroyer still had an imagination full of bad ideas and a pocket full of stupid to spend.
Bobby Adair
#39. All my favorite things start as bad ideas.
Julie Murphy
#40. It's the same as saying, you know, "I'll smoke, but that's up to me." Doctors don't recommend it. I don't recommend smoking. It's a bad idea. Smoking or spanking. Bad ideas.
Sean Hannity
#41. You're saying you don't want me?"
Aw hell. "No, I'm saying this is a bad idea."
"You're the king of bad ideas," he reminds me. "At least this one ends with both of us feeling good.
Sarina Bowen
#42. All the creativity books in the world aren't going to help you if you're unwilling to have lousy, lame, and even dangerously bad ideas.
Seth Godin
#43. The trouble with innovation is that truly innovative ideas often look like bad ideas at the time.
Ben Horowitz
#44. Our minds are a battle ground between good and bad ideas; we are whatever side wins the battle
Bangambiki Habyarimana
#45. I'm willing to throw my body in front of the bus to stop bad ideas.
Elizabeth Warren
#46. Keep an idea log where you write everything down, even the bad ideas.
Joshua Schachter
#47. The physical business of writing is unpleasant to me, but the psychic satisfaction of discharging bad ideas in worse English makes me forget it.
H.L. Mencken
#48. Granted, sorting bad ideas from good isn't easy. (One trick that works for us is a cooling-off period. Ideas nearly always seem brilliant when they're hatched, so we never act on a new idea for at least twenty-four hours. It is remarkable how stinky some ideas become after just one day in the sun.)
Anonymous
#49. The Republicans are the party of bad ideas. The Democrats are the party of no ideas.
Lewis Black
#50. Republicans have nothing but bad ideas and Democrats have no ideas.
Lewis Black
#51. I have witnessed boards that continued to waste money on doomed projects because no one was prepared to admit they were failures, take the blame and switch course. Smaller outfits are more willing to admit mistakes and dump bad ideas.
Luke Johnson
#52. I have to say, this sounds like the worst idea in a thousand generations of bad ideas."
"You haven't heard all our ideas."
Luke & Bhindi Drayson
Aaron Allston
#53. New ideas can be supremely bad ideas, and by the time people realize how bad they are, it is sometimes difficult to get rid of them.
Alister E. McGrath
#54. Good and bad ideas both come from the same fountain of speculation and experiment.
Shaun Tan
#55. 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
#57. All good ideas start out as bad ideas, that's why it takes so long.
Steven Spielberg
#58. As Oscar Wilde should have said, when bad ideas have nowhere else to go, they emigrate to America and become university courses.
Frederic Raphael
#59. In America, you're allowed to justify almost any kind of bigotry, sexism, or intolerance if you source it to God's big book of bad ideas.
Bill Maher
#60. There are no bad ideas. Only bad executions.
Meinos Kaen
#61. [Reggie] had a way of picking the bad ideas, which is why we should've just said no.
(from GAMELAND Episode 1: Deep into the Game)
Saul Tanpepper
#62. The best way to combat bad ideas is not to believe in them.
Marty Rubin
#63. On the Richter scale of bad ideas, this had to be a ten.
Robert Harris
#64. The Robertson family and bad ideas go together like biscuits and jam.
Willie Robertson
#65. Idea-Advocacy Matrix highlights a couple of things: that good ideas need to be "sold" if they are ever going to see the light of day and bad ideas sometimes do quite well because of the skills of the proponent to sell them.
John Daly
#66. If two parties with two sets of bad ideas cooperate, the result is not good policy, but policy that is extremely bad. What we really need are correct economic and politcal ideas, regardless of the party that pushes them.
Ron Paul
#68. Bad chemicals and bad ideas were the Yin and Yang of madness.
Kurt Vonnegut
#69. Seriously bad ideas (are) bad ideas which appeal to the prejudices of serious people.
Paul Krugman
#70. There's no better tonic for other people's bad ideas, than to think for oneself.
Michael R. Burch
#71. Good ideas will always get funded, so that's not going to be a problem. But you will see that it will be harder and harder for bad ideas to get funded.
Jeff Bezos
#72. And yet, the fact that we are no longer killing people for heresy in the West suggests that bad ideas, however sacred, cannot survive the company of good ones forever.
Sam Harris
#73. Mere absurdity has never prevented the triumph of bad ideas, if they accord with easily aroused fantasies of an existence freed of human limitations.
Anthony Daniels
#74. Ideas have consequences and bad ideas can have lethal consequences.
George Weigel
#75. I feel obligated to tell you that adventures are, on a whole, stunningly bad ideas, best avoided at all costs.
Michael McClung
#76. Bad ideas do not just happen. We are responsible for them. They result from carelessness on our part, when we cease to pay sufficient attention to the relational quality of ideas, or, worse, are a product of the willful rejection of objective facts.
Dennis Q. McInerny
#77. Never underestimate the power of bad ideas. They must be refuted again and again.
Llewellyn Rockwell
#79. After you produce you can select. you can curate. you can censor. But for now, have bad ideas, lots and lots of bad ideas.
Seth Godin
#80. 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
#81. There aren't bad ideas but yes bad thoughts
Valgame
#82. A writer's notebook is the best way in the world to immortalize bad ideas. My idea about a good idea is one that sticks around and sticks around and sticks around.
Stephen King
#83. Unlike wine, bad ideas don't improve with age.
Marty Rubin
#84. The State idea is not according to my heart. I cannot understand why it is needed. It is connected with narrow-minded and economic obstacles. I believe it is bad. I have always been against it.
Albert Einstein
#85. I am in between. Trying to write to be understood by those who matter to me, yet also trying to push my mind with ideas beyond the everyday. It is another borderland I inhabit. Not quite here nor there. On good days I feel I am a bridge. On bad days I just feel alone.
Sergio Troncoso
#86. There are some people who know who I am but there are a lot of people that have no idea who I am - which is not to say that that's a bad thing.
Jim Gaffigan
#87. Stopping a piece of work just because it's hard, either emotionally or imaginatively, is a bad idea. Sometimes you have to go on when you don't feel like it, and sometimes you're doing good work when if feels like all you're managing is to shovel sh*t from a sitting position.
Stephen King
#88. My heart pounded annoyingly in my ears, and it was getting harder to stay focused. I'd almost gotten trapped in here, and now I'd come back. Sometimes I did have truly terrible ideas.
Gwenda Bond
#89. I can recollect nothing more to say at present; perhaps breakfast may assist my ideas. I was deceived
my breakfast supplied only two ideas
that the rolls were good and the butter bad.
Jane Austen
#90. I do not care a fig for any woman that knows even what an author means.
William Hazlitt
#91. TV was like a third parent- a source of ideas and information and impressions. and not such a bad parent- always with time to spare, always eager to please, often funny.
Bill McKibben
#92. Despite a few really bad days we had quite a lot of fun making Low, especially when all the radical ideas were making sense and things were starting to click.
Tony Visconti
#93. It would be a very bad idea ... to exhibit even a small number of this new series, as the whole effect can only be achieved from an exhibition of the entire group.
Claude Monet
#94. Ideas are impressed on the subconscious through the medium of feeling. No idea can be impressed on the subconscious mind until it is felt, but once felt - be it good, bad or indifferent - it must be expressed. Feeling is the one and only medium through which ideas are conveyed to the subconscious.
Wayne W. Dyer
#95. Almost every writer I know dreads the moment when someone tries to give you an idea. It's not that the ideas are bad, just that the relationship between writer and novel is so personal that it's a little like someone trying to play matchmaker for a happily married person.
Laura Lippman
#96. It takes one asshole to ruin the whole thing. That's it. One. The problem with the world is one asshole comes up with a really bad idea and now we're all taking our shoes off at the airport.
Steven Soderbergh
#97. How would we feel if you could pay extra to smoke on airplanes? When we decide something is a bad idea in general for society, we don't want the rich to be able to buy their way out of it.
Peter Gleick
#98. People used to think that more population was bad for growth. In this view, people are stomachs - they eat, leaving less for everyone else. But once we realize the importance of ideas in the economy, people become brain - they innovate, creating more for everyone else.
Alex Tabarrok
#99. It's a very bad idea for scientific conclusions to be accepted because they fit with the political values of a group of researchers.
Philip Kitcher
#100. 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
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