If it's a good idea, do it today. Not tomorrow. A good idea rarely gets better over time. — Larry Winget
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
Good ideas come from everywhere. It's more important to recognize a good idea than to author it. — Jeanne Gang
Most good ideas sparkle in simplicity, so much so that everyone wonders why no one ever did that before. — Estee Lauder
Storytelling is the most powerful way to put ideas into the world today. — Robert McAfee Brown
Santa Claus has the right idea - visit people only once a year. — Victor Borge
Great minds discuss ideas.Average minds discuss events.Small minds discuss people.
Not A Good Idea Quotes
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
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
Nowadays, with digital printing, it's so easy to make everything perfect, which is not always a good idea. Sometimes the mistakes are really what make a piece. — Cindy Sherman
No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change the world.
Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into practice with courageous impatience. Once implemented they can be easily overturned or subverted through apathy or lack of follow-up, so a continuous effort is required. — Hyman Rickover
People changing because they think they should is not a good idea, because I just don't think they should, really. — Lemmy Kilmister
The ego must be developed, not for its own sake, but because it is needed by society. If you are only interested in self-realization then you cannot make a good painting. To do this you have to have thought about forming, and about how ideas of forming stem from history. — Joseph Beuys
Average people have great ideas. Legends have great execution.
I mean, first of all, let me say whichever superhero first came up with the idea of wearing a cape, he wasn't really onto anything good. The number of times I'm treading on that damn thing or I throw a punch and it ends up covering my whole head. It's really not practical. — Christian Bale
We had no faith in Mr Cook whatever. he was not even good for a days work, and the idea of his making such an astounding claim as having reached the pole was so ludicrous that, after our laugh, we dropped the matter altogether. — Matthew Henson
Simplicity is not the goal. It is the by-product of a good idea and modest expectations. — Paul Rand
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
Motivational Good Idea Quotes
Health is like money, we never have a true idea of its value until we lose it. — Josh Billings
I always had a lot of ideas, and I never thought I couldn’t do something. If you have a good idea and you believe in it, you just go for it. — Glen Bell
Most people have no idea how good their body is designed to feel. — Kevin Trudeau
We all agree that forgiveness is a beautiful idea until we have to practice it.
If you have an idea that you genuinely think is good, don’t let some idiot talk you out if it. — Stan Lee
NASA has never launched a mission just because it “sounded like a good idea,” and neither should you. — Pat Flynn
If you want to impact the world, then have good ideas, articulate them well, without ulterior motive, and bring them into reality. — Naval Ravikant
The mind that opens up to a new idea never returns to its original size.
A good idea is never lost. Even though its originator or possessor may die, it will someday be reborn in the mind of another. — Thomas A. Edison
Get a good idea and stay with it. Dog it, and work at it until it's done right. — Walt Disney
Good ideas are common - what's uncommon are people who will work hard enough to bring them about. — Ashleigh Brilliant
It did not take long after the rise of the commercial printing press before someone figured out that erotic novels were a good idea. ... It took people another 150 years to even think of the scientific journal. — Clay Shirky
Good Idea Bad Idea Quotes
Good or bad idea regardless of price — Howard Marks
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
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
Everyone says forgiveness is a lovely idea, until they have something to forgive.
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
All good ideas start out as bad ideas, that's why it takes so long. — Steven Spielberg
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
Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.
Even a bad idea executed is better than a good idea undone. — Paul Arden
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
Good Business Idea Quotes
Everyone told me it was a really stupid idea to start my own hedge fund right out of business school. That’s how I knew that it was a good idea. — Bill Ackman
An artist is someone who produces things that people don't need to have but that he - for some reason - thinks it would be a good idea to give them. — Andy Warhol
While good business ideas are plentiful, many entrepreneurs struggle to understand payroll taxes, health care and other thorny issues… In other words, they don't have the financial literacy to scale their businesses and attract investors. — Daymond John
You're always haunted by the idea that you're wasting your life
Keep things informal. Talking is the natural way to do business. Writing is great for keeping records and putting down details, but talk generates ideas. Great things come from out luncheon meetings which consist of a sandwich, a cup of soup, and a good idea or two. No martinis. — T. Boone Pickens
The way to be successful in the software world is to come up with breakthrough software, and so whether it's Microsoft Office or Windows, its pushing that forward. New ideas, surprising the marketplace, so good engineering and good business are one in the same. — Bill Gates
A good idea for a new business tends not to occur in isolation, and often the window of opportunity is very small. So speed is of the essence. — Richard Branson
Ideas hold little intrinsic value without execution.
I'm busy communicating ideas.... I want you to know what I'm thinking. If you feel a connection, good. If you don't, fine. — Grace Slick
In the advertising business, a good idea can inspire a great commercial. But a good insight can fuel a thousand ideas, a thousand commercials. — Phil Dusenberry
Having a good idea is one thing, but persuading other people to buy it is quite another. Good inventors are polymaths: they think with their hands and their brains. They're experts in design, engineering and business. — James Dyson
If you were a man, you'd go into business
for yourself. I know a fellow who started out last year with just a
canoe. Now he's got more women than you can shake a stick at, if
that's your idea of a good time. — Groucho Marx
Great Idea Quotes
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
Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing there is a field. I'll meet you there.
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
Great minds discuss ideas; Average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.
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
Don't trust a brilliant idea unless it survives the hangover. — Jimmy Breslin
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
Good Concept Quotes
Busy your mind with the concepts of harmony, health, peace, and good will, and wonders will happen in your life. — Joseph Murphy
We have to replace beauty, which is a cultural concept, with goodness, which is a humanist concept. — Philippe Starck
People aren't very good listeners, by nature. Part of being a good communicator is recognizing and understanding that and trying to make the complex simple. I try to capture a concept, an idea or a moment in a few words. If they remember it, job done. — Mike Tomlin
Don't allow the opinions of other people to shape your concept of him. Get to know him yourself, and let the goodness of God change you from the inside out. — Judah Smith
When I came up with Ethereum, my first thought was, 'Okay, this thing is too good to be true.' As it turned out, the core Ethereum idea was good - fundamentally, completely sound. — Vitalik Buterin
The only way you will ever awaken is through silence, not through analyzation of facts. Not by sorting out good and bad, but through simple silence, letting go. Letting go of all thoughts, all the hurts, all the dogmas and concepts. Letting go of these things daily. — Robert Adams
No-one gets an iron-clad guarantee of success. Certainly, factors like opportunity, luck and timing are important. But the backbone of success is usually found in old-fashioned, basic concepts like hard work, determination, good planning and perseverance. — Mia Hamm
I don’t understand the concept of failure. If you don’t succeed at everything you do on your first attempt, does that mean you ‘failed’? Isn’t it a good thing that you keep coming back and working at it until you succeed? How can that be a failure? — Tim Grover
To reject this inhuman Communist ideology is simply to be a human being. Such a rejection is more than a political act. It is a protest of our souls against those who would have us forget the concepts of good and evil. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
A good holiday is one spent among people whose notions of time are vaguer than yours. — J. B. Priestley
Brilliant Idea Quotes
What horrifies me most is the idea of being useless: well-educated, brilliantly promising, and fading out into an indifferent middle age. — Sylvia Plath
You can have brilliant ideas, but if you can't get them across, your ideas won't get you anywhere. — Lee Iacocca
I think a good MP is someone who cares for their community and becomes their champion, which is why I will make my home in any seat I am lucky enough to be selected for. Looks play no part in the equation, what matters is your ideas and connecting them to the electorate. — Adam Rickitt
Bulgaria is the first state that has been awarded for its excellent fight against iodine deficiency by UNICEF. — Anatoly Karpov
That's why I ended up leaving school - because it required so much time, and it was such an excellent idea. I figured I would regret not going full force with this idea. It seemed we could make something of it. — Shawn Fanning
The stability and peace which seemed to be so firmly established by the brilliant monarchy of Francis I vanished with the terrible outbreak of the Wars of Religion. — Lytton Strachey
I have found out one thing and that is, if you have an idea, and it is a good idea, if you only stick to it you will come out all right. — Cecil Rhodes
Bernanke has cultivated this idea that he is a brilliant scholar of The Great Depression, but that’s not true at all. — David Stockman
People like to think the creative process is romantic. The artist drifts to sleep at night, to be awakened by the subliminal echoes of his or her next brilliant idea. The truth, for me at least, is that creativity is primarily the result of hard work and study. — Grant Achatz
There are many really stupid ideas that wind up being brilliant, if you can implement them. — Gene Simmons
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
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
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
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
Bad ideas flourish because they are in the interest of powerful groups. — Paul Krugman
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
Countless women are alive today because of ideas stimulated by a design flaw in the Hubble Space Telescope. — Neil deGrasse Tyson
Good Design Quotes
He who works with his hands and his head and his heart is an artist — Francis of Assisi
Good design is a matter of discipline. It starts by looking at the problem and collecting all the available information about it. If you understand the problem, you have the solution. It’s really more about logic than imagination. — Massimo Vignelli
You create your own decoration. You choose your color, you choose your mood. ... If you are depressed, you put some bright yellow and suddenly you are happy. — Philippe Starck
Good design is as little design as possible. Less, but better - because it concentrates on the essential aspects, and the products are not burdened with non-essentials. Back to purity, back to simplicity. — Dieter Rams
You cannot understand good design if you do not understand people; design is made for people. — Dieter Rams
It's through mistakes that you actually can grow. You have to get bad in order to get good. — Paula Scher
Graphic design will save the world right after rock and roll does. — David Carson
Styles come and go. Good design is a language, not a style. — Massimo Vignelli
We should always look upon ourselves as God's servants, placed in God's world, to do his work; and accordingly labour faithfully for him; not with a design to grow rich and great, but to glorify God, and do all the good we possibly can. — David Brainerd
God is with the broken-hearted. When your heart breaks, it’s a good thing – the breaking of the heart is what opens it up to the light of Allah. The dunya is designed to break your heart, to crush it. — Hamza Yusuf
Interesting Ideas Quotes
To turn really interesting ideas and fledgling technologies into a company that can continue to innovate for years, it requires a lot of disciplines. — Steve Jobs
Graffiti writers will never stop. They'll just evolve. It's interesting what ideas people come up with and how it all extends forward. — Ben Eine
I write from my knowledge not my lack, from my strength not my weakness. I am not interested if anyone knows whether or not I am familiar with big words, I am interested in trying to render big ideas in a simple way. I am interested in being understood not admired. — Lucille Clifton
What I've enjoyed most, though, is meeting people who have a real interest in food and sharing ideas with them. Good food is a global thing and I find that there is always something new and amazing to learn - I love it! — Jamie Oliver
My idea of forgiveness is letting go of resentment that does not serve your better interest, ridding yourself of negative thoughts. All they do is make you miserable. Believe me, you can fret and fume all you want, but whoever it was that wronged you is not suffering from your anguish whatsoever. — Della Reese
The interesting thing about overthinking and procrastination is sometimes they can actually evolve into innovation and creativity in the short term. Letting an idea grow in your mind in the short term with a deadline and a plan can actually lead to innovation and creativity. — Jay Shetty
We have a visceral reaction to the idea that anyone would make very much money helping other people. Interesting that we don't have a visceral reaction to the notion that people would make a lot of money NOT helping other people. — Dan Pallotta
When I first became interested in photography, I thought it was the whole cheese. My idea was to have it recognized as one of the fine arts. Today I don't give a hoot in hell about that. The mission of photography is to explain man to man and each man to himself. — Edward Steichen
The brain is full of lonely ideas, begging you to make some sense of them, to recognize them as interesting. The lazy brain just files them away in old pigeonholes, like a bureaucrat who wants an easy life. The lively brain picks and chooses and creates new works of art out of ideas. — Theodore Zeldin
People who are more than casually interested in computers should have at least some idea of what the underlying hardware is like. Otherwise the programs they write will be pretty weird. — Donald Knuth
I'm dead against the idea that you should try to "cure" people of being gay. — Ian Mckellen
Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success. — Swami Vivekananda
Ideas are more powerful than guns. We would not let our enemies have guns, why should we let them have ideas. — Josef Stalin
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