If it's a good idea, do it today. Not tomorrow. A good idea rarely gets better over time. — Larry Winget
Don't trust a brilliant idea unless it survives the hangover. — Jimmy Breslin
Never fall in love with an idea. They're whores. — Chip Kidd
All good ideas start out as bad ideas, that's why it takes so long. — Steven Spielberg
Never fall in love with an idea. They're whores: if the one you're with isn't doing the job, there's always, always, always another. — Chip Kidd
If you have an idea that you genuinely think is good, don’t let some idiot talk you out if it. — Stan Lee
If an idea does not appear bizarre, there is no hope for it. — Niels Bohr
Never say no to an idea - you never know how that idea will ignite another idea. — Stanley Kubrick
Every great idea is on the verge of being stupid. — Michel Gondry
There's no such thing as a good idea or bad idea in the investment world. It's a good idea at a price, it's a bad idea at a price. — Howard Marks
Never invest in any idea you can't illustrate with a crayon — Peter Lynch
Having the world's best idea will do you no good unless you act on it. People who want milk shouldn't sit on a stool in the middle of a field in hopes that a cow will back up to them. — Curtis Grant
No grand idea was ever born in a conference, but a lot of foolish ideas have died there. — Unknown
For an idea ever to be fashionable is ominous, since it must afterwards be always old fashioned — George Santayana
A great idea should always be left to steep like loose tea leaves in a teapot for a while to make sure that the tea will be strong enough and that the idea truly is a great one. — Phoebe Stone
Short Bad Idea Quotes
If at first the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it. — Albert Einstein
Our world is endangered by the absence of good ideas — Terence McKenna
The worst thing you can do is nothing. — Terry Pratchett
The best way to have a good idea is to have a lot of ideas. — Linus Pauling
We shouldn't be looking for heroes, we should be looking for good ideas. — Noam Chomsky
Do you know what happens when you give a procrastinator a good idea? Nothing! — Donald Gardner
No idea is above scrutiny. — Maajid Nawaz
The test of a good idea is its ability to last through a hangover — Jimmy Breslin
Ideas are bulletproof. — Alan Moore
A new idea must not be judged by its immediate results. — Nikola Tesla
Top 10 Bad Idea Quotes
Architects spend an entire life with this unreasonable idea that you can fight against gravity. — Renzo Piano
It was a bad idea, because I think that any government reorganization has to come in relatively small bites, or else you get indigestion. — Warren Rudman
Good or bad idea regardless of price — Howard Marks
I don't think that the Left has a monopoly on bad ideas. I don't think the Right has a monopoly on good ideas. — James David Vance
We never liked prank shows 'cause you feel bad for the people getting pranked. So we came up with the idea of 'Jokers,' which spins it upside down. — James Murray
I never understood the idea that you're supposed to mellow as you get older. Slowing down isn't something I relate to at all. The goal is to continue in good and bad, all of it. — Diane Keaton
My advice to would-be young authors is to read a lot, write a lot, and not worry about creating a finished product. Keeping a journal is not a bad idea either. — Kevin Henkes
Bad ideas flourish because they are in the interest of powerful groups. — Paul Krugman
Countless women are alive today because of ideas stimulated by a design flaw in the Hubble Space Telescope. — Neil deGrasse Tyson
People get into a heavy-duty sin and guilt trip, feeling that if things are going wrong, that means that they did something bad and they are being punished. That's not the idea at all. — Pema Chodron
Bad Idea Image Quotes
One bad chapter does not mean your story is over.
No Idea Is A Bad Idea Quotes
I know that nuclear is better than fossil fuels when it comes to carbon dioxide, but nuclear energy is by no means clean. We don't know what to do with the waste we already have and it seems like a bad idea to me to make more when we have so many cleaner options such as wind and solar. — Sheryl Crow
We have a two-party system: The Democratic Party, which is a party of no ideas, and the Republican Party, which is a party of bad ideas. — Lewis Black
No one ever heard of the truth being enforced by law. When the secular is called in to sustain an idea, whether new or old, it is always a bad idea, and not infrequently it is downright idiotic. — H. L. Mencken
If you have a bad thought about yourself, tell it to go to hell because that is exactly where it came from.
My worst year. The only thing that I know for a fact now is that if it's really a bad day, then I draw the curtains, and I lay in bed. There is no way of dealing with grief. And I have no idea. This year I had double of them, my mother and my husband. I just take it one day at a time. — Iman Abdulmajid
You know, I am just a musician and I have no idea these days what good and bad is in terms of labels. — Billy Sherwood
The life of Zen begins, therefore, in a disillusion with the pursuit of goals which do not really exist the good without the bad, the gratification of a self which is no more than an idea, and the morrow which never comes. — Alan Watts
Persist to overcome. He that can't endure the bad, will not live to see the good.
When we look at the budget, the budget is bad to a large extent because we have people that have no idea as to what to do and how to buy. — Donald Trump
The sequestration is a bad idea, all around. It is something that is out of the question. If you have spending cuts, education of our children, other investments, on the National Institutes of Health, where you are hindering growth, you're no going to reduce the deficit. — Nancy Pelosi
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
My position hasn't changed over the years. Which is that online voting is a very unsafe idea and a very bad idea and something I think no technological breakthrough I can foresee can ever change. — Avi Rubin
Good Idea Bad Idea Quotes
I suggest you take a look at yourself. Not the concepts, not the ideas, not the goods, not the bads. But a timeless purity of existence. A witness to the beauty that is. — Prem Rawat
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
Even a bad idea executed is better than a good idea undone. — Paul Arden
Great minds discuss ideas.Average minds discuss events.Small minds discuss people.
The television industry doesn't like to see the compexity of the world. It prefers simple reporting, with simple ideas: this is white, that's black; this is good, that's bad. — Krzysztof Kieslowski
I try to wait until things set up just right before I take a trade. Then, when I'm ready to take the trade, I slowly count to ten before I pick up the phone. It's better to have the wrong idea and good timing than the right idea and bad timing. — Linda Bradford Raschke
We should invest in people not ideas. A good idea is often destroyed by bad people and good people can always make a bad idea better. — Simon Sinek
Never regret a day in your life: good days give happiness, bad days give experience, worst days give lessons, and best days give memories.
The only way to oppose a bad idea is to replace it with a good idea. — Jack Kemp
Only a bad artist thinks he has a good idea. A good artist does not need anything. — Ad Reinhardt
The "paperless office" is a bad idea because paper is one of the most useful and valuable media ever invented. "On paper" is a good place for information you want to use; a bad place for information you want to store. — David Gelernter
Some of the inspirations I had as far as following that story would be, like, say, "The Good, The Bad and The Ugly," the way they use the Civil War in that, or even the idea that - the movie that Leone was going to do before he died was going to be a movie about the battle of Stalingrad. — Quentin Tarantino
Take responsibility for your last bad decision, and then let it go. Don't blame others or make excuses for yourself. — Deepak Chopra
No good decision was ever made in a swivel chair. — George S. Patton
No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change the world.
I felt bad, yet I knew I’d made the right choice. I was following my heart. — Rich Roll
Power doesn't corrupt. It's neutral. Someone always wants to corrupt power. It's the way a shotgun is not a deadly weapon until someone chooses to use it irrationally. — Steve Ditko
You want people with different life experiences as a backstop against bad decisions. — Tucker Carlson
There is a battle of two wolves inside us all. One is evil. It is anger, jealousy, greed, resentment, lies, inferiority and ego. The other is good. It is joy, peace, love, hope, humility, kindness, empathy and truth. The wolf that wins? The one you feed.
Every bad decision I've made has been based on money. I grew up in the projects and you don't turn down money there. You take it, because you never know when it's all going to end. I made Cop III because they offered me $15 million. That $15 million was worth having Roger Ebert's thumb up my ass. — Eddie Murphy
you never make the same mistake twice. the second time you make it, it is no longer a mistake. it is a choice — Lauren Conrad
Having a financial adviser enables the investor to carry a psychological call option. If the investment decision turns out well, the investor takes the credit, and if it turns out badly, the regret can be lowered by blaming the adviser. — Hersh Shefrin
Bangkok, like Las Vegas, sounds like a place where you make bad decisions. — Todd Phillips
Good Idea Quotes
A good leader can engage in a debate frankly and thoroughly, knowing that at the end he and the other side must be closer, and thus emerge stronger. You don't have that idea when you are arrogant, superficial, and uninformed. — Nelson Mandela
Persuade your fellow citizens it's a good idea and pass a law. That's what democracy is all about. It's not about nine superannuated judges who have been there too long, imposing these demands on society. — Antonin Scalia
The most damnable and pernicious heresy that has ever plagued the mind of man was the idea that somehow he could make himself good enough to deserve to live with an all-holy God. — Martin Luther
You have to fight through the bad days in order to earn the best days.
Football is about joy. It's about dribbling. I favour every idea that makes the game beautiful. Every good idea has to last. — Ronaldinho
You are an explorer, and you represent our species, and the greatest good you can do is to bring back a new idea, because our world is endangered by the absence of good ideas. Our world is in crisis because of the absence of consciousness. — Terence McKenna
I'm not a party animal. I'm a chill homebody. I like to watch movies and go out to eat. That's my idea of a good time. I'm definitely able to be social. — Jhene Aiko
Don't let a bad day make you feel like you have a bad life.
People are always selling the idea that people with mental illness are suffering. I think madness can be an escape. If things are not so good, you maybe want to imagine something better. — John Forbes Nash
Health is like money, we never have a true idea of its value until we lose it. — Josh Billings
When I am traveling in a carriage, or walking after a good meal, or during the night when I cannot sleep; it is on such occasions that ideas flow best and most abundantly. — Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
When I am...traveling in a carriage, or walking after a good meal, or during the night when I cannot sleep; it is on such occasions that ideas flow best and most abundantly. — Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
He that gives good advice, builds with one hand; he that gives good counsel and example, builds with both; but he that gives good admonition and bad example, builds with one hand and pulls down with the other. — Francis Bacon
I’d compare stock pickers to astrologers but I don’t want to bad mouth astrologers. — Eugene Fama
There is nothing more hateful than bad advice. — Sophocles
My advice to defensive players: Take the shortest route to the ball and arrive in a bad humor. — Bowden Wyatt
An actor knows two important things - to be honest in what he is doing and to be in touch with the audience. That's not bad advice for a politician either. — Ronald Reagan
You will have bad times, but they will always wake you up to the stuff you weren't paying attention to.
The Muslim leaders swallow the advice of the Western powers and bodies like the IMF and World Bank, even when it is bad for their countries and they know this. — Abu Bakar Bashir
"Be yourself" is about the worst advice you can give some people. — Thomas Lansing Masson
Old people love to give good advice; it compensates them for their inability to set a bad example. — Francois de la Rochefoucauld
A very great man once said you should love your enemies and that's not a bad piece of advice. We can love them but, by God, that doesn't mean we're not going to fight them. — Norman Schwarzkopf
Bad Mistake Quotes
It's through mistakes that you actually can grow. You have to get bad in order to get good. — Paula Scher
Sin is not simply making bad choices or mistakes. Sin is having the desire in our hearts to do the will of the enemy of God. — R. C. Sproul
When a child makes a mistake or fails to accomplish a certain goal, we must avoid any word or action which indicates that we consider him a failure. 'Too bad that didn't work.' 'I'm sorry it didn't work out for you.' We need to separate the deed from the doer. — Rudolf Dreikurs
If you love deeply, you're going to get hurt badly. But it's still worth it.
I put God first, and strive to do my best by being a loving human being, recognizing that sometimes I make mistakes and bad choices. — Common
My philosophy is that all stocks are bad. There are no good stocks unless they go up in price. If they go down instead, you have to cut your losses fast Letting losses run is the most serious mistake made by most investors. — William O'Neil
None of us are bad people. We float around and we run across each other and we learn about ourselves, and we make mistakes and we do great things. We hurt others, we hurt ourselves, we make others happy and we please ourselves. We can and should forgive ourselves and each other for that. — Dan Harmon
I take responsibility for what happened at Enron, both good and bad. But I cannot take responsibility for criminal conduct that I was unaware of. — Kenneth Lay
Never promote someone who hasn’t made some bad mistakes, because if you do, you are promoting someone who has never done anything. — Philip Arthur Fisher
I remember, when I was a young guy in the SEAL teams, I was very afraid of making mistakes and looking stupid or doing dumb things and getting a bad reputation. — Jocko Willink
The Universe doesn’t make mistakes. Everything is happening just as it should. It’s only our perception of difficulties that causes us the distress and the difficulty we experience. Not only that, but when we label events as ‘bad,' we fail to perceive the benefit that is waiting for us. — Chris Prentiss
Good tactics can save even the worst strategy. Bad tactics will destroy even the best strategy. — George S. Patton
No one's busy thinking bad things about you. They're all too busy thinking bad things about themselves. — Patrick Stump
No offer? No business. No life. Bad offer? Negative profit. No business. Miserable life. Decent offer? No profit. Stagnating business. Stagnating life. Good offer? Some profit. Okay business. Okay life. Grand Slam Offer? Fantastic profit. Insane business. Freedom. — Alex Hormozi
Success is not necessarily about connections, or cutting corners, or chamba - the three Cs of bad business. Call it trite, but believe me: success can be achieved through hard work, frugality, integrity, responsiveness to change, and most of all, boldness to dream. — John Gokongwei
The business is all about gush and hype. You never have a bad meeting in L.A. — Emily Blunt
I believe that the laws of karma do not apply to show business, where good things happen to bad people on a fairly regular basis. — Chuck Lorre
I don't blame the people for the fact that so many movies are bad. I think there's a corrupt, perverted, lazy and sloppy attitude that's pervasive in the movie business. The whole entertainment business is kind of crumbling around us. — Joseph Gordon-Levitt
There is not such thing as bad times, I kept telling myself. There is not such thing as bad business. Business is there if you go after it. — Estee Lauder
Awareness is bad for the meat business. Conscience is bad for the meat business. Sensitivity to life is bad for the meat business. DENIAL, however, the meat business finds indispensable. — John Robbins
Little minds think and talk about people.
Average minds think and talk about things and actions.
Great minds think and talk about ideas. — Benjamin Franklin
The essence of America - that which really unites us - is not ethnicity, or nationality or religion - it is an idea - and what an idea it is: That you can come from humble circumstances and do great things. — Condoleezza Rice
Preparing a character is the opposite of building-it is a demolishing, removing brick by brick everything in the actor's muscles, ideas and inhibitions that stands between him and the part, until one day, with a great rush of air, the character invades his every pore. — Peter Brook
Let's go to Brunch. What a great idea! Why would you want to sleep in on a Sunday when you can go pay $18 for eggs? Now, you're thinking. — Bill Burr
Whatever is expressed is impressed. Whatever you say to yourself, with emotion, generates thoughts, ideas and behaviors consistent with those words. — Brian Tracy
we can't be creative if we refuse to be confused. Change always starts with confusion; cherished interpretations must dissolve to make way for what's new. Great ideas and inventions miraculously appear in the space of not knowing. — Margaret J. Wheatley
A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest; Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art. — Benjamin Disraeli
The idea is not to block every shot. The idea is to make your opponent believe that you might block every shot. — Bill Russell
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
The first gesture of an architect is to draw a perimeter; in other words, to separate the microclimate from the macro space outside. This in itself is a sacred act. Architecture in itself conveys this idea of limiting space. It's a limit between the finite and the infinite. From this point of view, all architecture is sacred. — Mario Botta
I think trading Bitcoin while reading twitter is a bad idea. The news that governments expect you to pay your taxes and abide by existing laws should not be driving panic in the marketplace. The main stream interpretations are almost always the opposite of the true implication. — Michael Saylor
We're not trying to prove the character of God through science. That's a bad idea. What I'm trying to do is clear away the misunderstandings, the debris that prevent people from accepting that God who wants to accept them. — Phillip E. Johnson
Sometimes people's spiritual ideas become fixed and they use them against those who don't share their beliefs - in effect, becoming fundamentalist. It's very dangerous - the finger of righteous indignation pointing at someone who is identified as bad or wrong. — Pema Chodron
I think software patents are a bad idea. Many patents are given for trivial inventions. — Larry Wall
All of our days are numbered. We cannot afford to be idle. To act on a bad idea is better than to not act at all, because the worth of an idea never becomes apparent until you do it. — Nick Cave
All it takes is ONE. One big victory silences all your critics. One big victory validates your hard work. One big victory overshadows the 1,000's of mistakes and bad ideas. One big victory can lead to more victories. Go get your ONE big victory. — Patrick Bet-David
I'm willing to throw my body in front of the bus to stop bad ideas. — Elizabeth Warren
Held in the palms of thousands of disgruntled people over the centuries have been ideas worth millions - if they only had taken the first step and then followed through. — Robert M. Hayes
It is not a bad idea to get in the habit of writing down one's thoughts. It saves one having to bother anyone else with them. — Isabel Colegate
I am a feminist because I feel endangered, psychically and physically, by this society and because I believe that the women's movement is saying that we have come to an edge of history when men - insofar as they are embodiments of the patriarchal idea - have become dangerous to children and other living things, themselves included — Adrienne Rich
Your competition is not other people but the time you kill, the ill will you create, the knowledge you neglect to learn, the connections you fail to build, the health you sacrifice along the path, your inability to generate ideas, the people around you who don’t support and love your efforts, and whatever god you curse for your bad luck. — James Altucher
Clutter is not just physical stuff. It's old ideas, toxic relationships and bad habits. Clutter is anything that does not support your better self. — Eleanor Brown
The object isn't to make art, it's to be in that wonderful state which makes art inevitable. — Robert Henri
The idea of Ghost Stories is how to turn something bad into something that gives you an uplift. — Chris Martin
He'd discovered that his memories of that summer were like bad movie montages - young lovers tossing a Frisbee in the park, sharing a melting ice-cream cone, bicycling along the river, laughing, talking, kissing, a sappy score drowning out the dialogue because the screenwriter had no idea what these two people might say to each other. — Richard Russo
A republican stands up in congress and says 'I GOT A REALLY BAD IDEA!!' and the democrat stands up after him and says 'AND I CAN MAKE IT SHITTIER!! — Lewis Black
The church is always trying to get other people to reform, it might not be a bad idea to reform itself a little, by way of example — Mark Twain
Dwarves are not heroes, but a calculating folk with a great idea of the value of money; some are tricky and treacherous and pretty bad lots; some are not but are decent enough people like Thorin and Company, if you don't expect too much. — J. R. R. Tolkien
I’m attracted to the idea of drowning. Or rather the idea of jumping off and being enveloped by something, not bad or good, just enveloping.
When I was a kid, I had a moment when I got under the water, lying on the pool floor, and felt I could breathe. I’ve been trying to recreate that feeling ever since. — Florence Welch
Be authentic to your dreams. Be authentic to your own idea about yourself. Grind away at your own minds and bodies until you become your own invention. Be Mad Scientists. — Warren Ellis
Ozzy Osbourne and Motley Crue in New Orleans on Mardi Gras = bad idea! — Nikki Sixx
Now that we all agree contraception is a bad idea, let's take a harder look at electricity and soap. — Andy Borowitz
Songs are like fish. You just gotta have your line in the water. And it's a bad idea to fish downstream from Bob Dylan. — Arlo Guthrie
A cookie store is a bad idea. Besides, the market research reports say America likes crispy cookies, not soft and chewy cookies like you make. — Debbi Fields
Object-oriented programming is an exceptionally bad idea which could only have originated in California. — Edsger Dijkstra
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