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“I learned something from a string of failed relationships. You don't see a pattern quickly. You see it over time. I learned to stop jumping in at the first sign of attraction. As soon as you're attracted to someone, you go for it - whether or not it's a good idea. Basically, just going out and getting laid.”

Firsts Ideas Patterns Attraction Strings Good Ideas Going Out Jumping Getting Laid Jumping In Attracted To Someone Failed Relationship

Author:James McAvoy

“I love being around people that contribute. It doesn't matter where the good idea comes from. A good idea is a good idea.”

People Ideas Matter Love Is Good Ideas

Author:Milo Ventimiglia

“Ideas really do matter. But in any organization a good idea will only go so far unless its proponents are willing to fight the political games to get the idea adopted.”

Ideas Matter Political Fighting Games Willing Organization Good Ideas Adopted Political Games

Author:John Daly

“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.”

Ifs Needs Wells Ideas Sometimes Light Couple Skills Sells Good Ideas Highlights Bad Ideas Advocacy

Author:John Daly

“A great idea is simply the combination of many good ideas.”

Ideas Combination Good Ideas Great Idea

Author:John C. Maxwell

“Good ideas have expiration dates. You need to act before they become dated, irrelevant or otherwise spoiled.”

Needs Ideas Good Ideas Irrelevant Spoiled

Author:John C. Maxwell

“Since the early bird catches the worm, it's a good idea to begin your day as soon as you can -- unless, of course, you happen to be a worm.”

Ideas Happens Courses Bird Good Ideas Worms Early Bird

Author:Ed Bliss

“The test of a good idea is its ability to last through a hangover”

Ideas Lasts Ability Tests Good Ideas Hangover

Book:I Want to Thank My Brain for Remembering Me: A Memoir

Source: I Want to Thank My Brain for Remembering Me: A Memoir

“All religion may be centered around a generally good idea, however, this has not stopped its adherents from acting like bastards.”

May Ideas Acting Good Ideas

Author:Paul Feyerabend

“It is not a good idea to continually repeat a mantra during meditation. Repeating a mantra throughout your mediation causes you to fixate on a specific level of consciousness.”

Ideas Causes Levels Consciousness Meditation Buddhism Repeats Good Ideas Mantras Mediation

Author:Frederick Lenz

“After meditation, it is a good idea to bow and offer your meditation to god, to that stillness and perfection that is existence. Feel that you are giving your meditation away.”

Giving Feels Ideas Existence Meditation Buddhism Offers Perfection Good Ideas Stillness Bows

Author:Frederick Lenz

“We say in a democracy that good ideas will drive out bad ones, so if the good ones aren't there, we're left with the bad ones”

Ifs Ideas Left Democracy Good Ideas

Author:Barry McCaffrey

“Since many things we see were once an idea, let us create good ideas today because they will be the realities of tomorrow! When you create an idea, do not forget that you shape the future! Idea is your God side! With ideas, you can change the universe, but only with very great ideas!”

Ideas Reality Today Universe Sides Change Forget Tomorrow Shapes Good Ideas Great Idea

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of will but must wait until what he believes to be a good idea for a work comes to him.”

Believe Art Ideas Artist Belief Waiting Simple Simplicity Works Of Art Good Ideas Brilliant Ideas

Author:W. H. Auden

“It was the academic community who wired up their universities so it was put together by smart, well-meaning people who thought it was a good idea.”

People Wells Ideas Together Community Smart University Good Ideas Academic

Author:Tim Berners-Lee

“The reason I collect good ideas is because plots themselves are very difficult indeed to come by.”

Ideas Reason Difficult Plot Good Ideas

Book:The Roald Dahl Treasury

Source: The Roald Dahl Treasury

“Oh look, an ATM! Ok, here we go! I lost all my money, now what do I do? Get a gun! Rob a casino! Good idea! Look at all the lights! This is beautiful.”

Looks Ideas Light Beautiful Lost Gun Good Ideas Casinos Atm

Author:Bill Burr

“I never felt like dying was a good idea.”

Ideas Felt Dying Good Ideas

Author:Anthony Kiedis

“One of the most difficult tasks of visioneering is distinguishing between good ideas and God ideas.”

Ideas Difficult Tasks Good Ideas Difficult Tasks

Author:Andy Stanley

“I'm rarely in a situation where, if you have a good idea, it's not embraced. That's stupid. And I don't work with stupid people.”

People Ifs Ideas Situation Stupid Good Ideas Stupid People

Author:Richard Gere

“People changing because they think they should is not a good idea, because I just don't think they should, really.”

People Thinking Should Ideas Good Ideas People Changing

Author:Lemmy Kilmister

“Online gambling is very seductive and very illusory. It can seem like a really good idea. It can seem like what people told you to work hard and get ahead, but when someone shows you something and it's too good to be true, it probably is.”

People Ideas Hard Shows Seems Hard Work Being True Online Gambling Good Ideas Seductive Illusory Get Ahead Too Good To Be True

Author:Ben Affleck

“Having been an editor for more than a decade, I thought I had a good idea of how much work was involved in writing a novel. I was wrong! Writing is a lot harder than I ever imagined - but worth it.”

Writing Ideas Novel Involved Harder Decades Editors Good Ideas Worth It

Author:Julie Klassen

“If you let someone talk for an hour, you're gonna have a pretty good idea of who they are, and I think that's more rewarding than me sitting there going, "That's complete bullshit about health care."”

Ifs Thinking Ideas Care Hours Sitting Health Care Good Ideas Bullshit

Author:Marc Maron

“I think that there are a lot of great studio people but the fewer voices in my head when I'm getting out a draft, the better. I just get it out and then I'll listen to all manner of good ideas. And that's what happens, too, when I'm touring and doing a character on stage.”

People Thinking Ideas Character Happens Voice Stage Studios Good Ideas Fewer Touring Voices In My Head

Author:Mike Myers

“Reading aloud sounds like a good idea, but honestly, it doesn't work very well. Good dialogue in a book doesn't actually bear much resemblance to real-life dialogue. For example, if you've ever seen a word-for-word transcript of people talking, it doesn't read off the page very well. The trick is to make it *seem* like it's being spoken, not to make it speakable.”

People Ifs Wells Book Ideas Real Seems Reading Sound Talking Example Bears Pages Honestly Real Life Tricks Dialogue Good Ideas Resemblance People Talking Reading Aloud

Author:Patrick Rothfuss

“I learned that as a director, you're around all these talented people, so you have this window that all these really good ideas can come in to help your movie, so you're crazy to close them. You need to be inspiring people, engaging people. There are lots of people who are really good at their jobs but might not know or feel like they want to come up to people and get them to participate and want to do their best.”

People Knows Want Needs Feels Ideas Helping Might Jobs Crazy Directors Window Come Up Good Ideas Engaging

Author:Ben Affleck

“I think if you're going to remake a film it should be something that was a good idea, but wasn't executed well. There isn't anything I would like to remake. I have too many of my own ideas I want to make.”

Ifs Thinking Want Should Wells Ideas Film My Own Good Ideas Remakes

Author:Rob Zombie

“We must not forget that the wheel is reinvented so often because it is a very good idea; I've learned to worry more about the soundness of ideas that were invented only once.”

Ideas Forget Worry Very Good I've Learned Wheels Programming Software Good Ideas Software Engineering Soundness

Author:David Parnas

“I write in the mornings, in the bright daylight. But I get most of my good ideas after the sun has gone down and the dark is on the land.”

Writing Ideas Dark Morning Sun Gone Land Down And Good Ideas Daylight

Author:Stephen King

“The torch is a symbol of the Olympic Games, of peace and togetherness. It's a good idea. And this idea is being misused. I believe in the Olympic ideal and in the torch that symbolizes this ideal. We should be condemning not those who have this ideal, but those who try to destroy it.”

Should Trying Believe Ideas Games I Believe Ideals I Believe In Symbols Good Ideas Togetherness Torches Olympic Games Condemning Misused

Author:Herbert Hainer

“I like good ideas. I don't want just do something for it's own sake to bother people, but if I can bother them with a logical argument about something they have agreed to in society simplistically - like children are sacred, the cult of the child, this cult of professional parenthood, and of course religion, and respect for policemen and the law, and all of these untouchable areas. I like attacking those beliefs, but in with good sound thinking, and an unusual approach.”

“No one is more himself than the moment when he's laughing at a joke. It's at those moments that people's defenses go down, and that's when you can slip in a good idea.”

People Ideas Moments Laughing Jokes Down And Defense Good Ideas Slips

Author:George Carlin

“Just because a movie is satisfactory means that the person who makes it is satisfactory. One can make a wonderful movie but still not be a wonderful person. In terms of interviews, it's probably not a good idea, because moviemakers tend not to tell the truth, even when asked a question.”

Mean Persons Stills Ideas Term Wonderful Interviews Telling The Truth Good Ideas Wonderful Person

Author:Mamoru Oshii

“Someday, you need to build a business that's difficult to replicate. This is an important part of a good idea.”

Needs Important Ideas Difficult Someday Good Ideas Replicate

Author:Sam Altman

“You should have an investment thesis that essentially says why you think this is potentially a good idea.”

Thinking Should Ideas Should Have Investment Good Ideas Thesis

Author:Reid Hoffman

“Don't wait for success, but for the respect and interest of those who read you. At the start it could be a classmate, someone who shares your interests. Before sending off the manuscript for a novel to a publishing house, it would be a good idea to try writing short stories, and publishing them in a local magazine.”

“I think the books are the books. They were conceived as books. They weren't conceived as movies. When I write scripts, that's an idea and a situation that I think is a really good idea for a movie. When I'm writing a book, I'm not thinking, "Oh, this would be a great movie." This would be a very interesting book. And I think the books are things that cannot really be adapted into another medium.”

Thinking Writing Book Ideas Would Be Interesting Situation Scripts Mediums Good Ideas Very Interesting Writing A Book Adapted Interesting Book

Author:Bret Easton Ellis

“I love women who have a strong sense of themselves because I know I have a pretty good idea of what I want out of life and I like to be around other people who are also pretty secure. It just makes things easier.”

People Knows Want Ideas Strong Easier Secure Good Ideas

Author:Jack Nicholson

“It's really not enough to just have black women. A really good idea could be to comment on how they are treated by society.”

Ideas Enough Black Treated Comment Good Ideas Black Women

Author:Lea DeLaria

“Paris is always a good idea.”

Inspirational Ideas Travel Paris Good Ideas Brilliant Ideas

Author:Audrey Hepburn

“I worked next to an elephant. And considering that she could step on your toes, it's a good idea to keep a certain distance. It's also a good idea to befriend the trainer.”

Ideas Certain Next Steps Distance Good Ideas Considering Toes Elephants Trainers

Author:Christoph Waltz

“Science is a good thing. News reporters are good things too. But it's never a good idea to put them in the same room.”

Ideas Science Rooms News Good Things Good Ideas Reporters

Author:Scott Adams

“Properly conducted scientific studies . . . give us a pretty good idea of when something is likely to be correct. To me, pretty good is a linguistic statistic that falls somewhere in between more likely than not and beyond a reasonable doubt, et avoides the pitfalls arising from the belief in complete objectivity.”

Giving Ideas Fall Belief Study Doubt Humility Reasonable Good Ideas Objectivity Pitfalls Reasonable Doubt Beyond A Reasonable Doubt

Author:Robert A. Burton

“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.”

People Ideas Ghost Good Ideas

Author:David J. Schwartz

“It's a poor bureaucrat who can't stall a good idea until even its sponsor is relieved to see it dead and officially buried.”

Ideas Poor Buried Good Ideas Bureaucracy Relieved Bureaucrats Sponsors

Book:Further Up the Organization

Source: Further Up the Organization

“The young are always coming up with the good ideas; it's because they waste time. They follow their passion and do something, not looking for a payoff, just doing what's interesting.”

Ideas Young Time Passion Interesting Waste Stress Wasting Time Good Ideas Payoff

Author:Kevin Kelly

“I think the major good idea in Unix was its clean and simple interface: open, close, read, and write.”

Thinking Writing Ideas Simple Majors Clean Good Ideas Cleaning Interfaces Unix

Author:Ken Thompson

“A good idea if not acted upon produces terrible psychological pain. But a good idea acted upon brings enormous mental satisfaction. Got a good idea? Then do something about it. Use action to cure fear and gain confidence. Here's something to remember: Actions feed and strengthen confidence; inaction in all forms feeds fear. To fight fear, act. To increase fear--wait, put off, postpone.”

Source: The Magic Of Thinking Big

“But obviously, we're looking for all good ideas to help deal with our long-term debt problem. This is something that is going to affect our economy. It affects our kids. And we need to deal with it.”

Needs Long Ideas Helping Problem Kids Term Deals Economy Debt Brilliant Long Term Good Ideas Brilliant Ideas

Author:David Axelrod

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