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“Good ideas have no value because the world already has too many of them. The market rewards execution, not ideas.”

World Ideas Values Rewards Good Ideas Execution

Book:How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big: Kind of the Story of My Life

Source: How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big: Kind of the Story of My Life

“I don't rehearse films as much as opera or theatre. When I began directing films I thought a long rehearsal was a good idea. Experience showed me that the best performance was often left in a rehearsal room.”

Long Ideas Film Left Rooms Performances Theatre Good Ideas Opera Rehearsal Best Performance Directing Film

Author:Bruce Beresford

“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.”

People Ifs Want Firsts Said Ideas Lasts Week Like You Remembered Good Ideas Bad Ideas

Book:Stick to Drawing Comics, Monkey Brain!: Cartoonist Explains Cloning, Blouse Monsters, Voting Machines, Romance, Monkey G ods, How to Avoid Being Mistaken for a Rodent, and More

Source: Stick to Drawing Comics, Monkey Brain!: Cartoonist Explains Cloning, Blouse Monsters, Voting Machines, Romance, Monkey G ods, How to Avoid Being Mistaken for a Rodent, and More

“Our producer Jon Davison thought it would be a good idea to put in additional TV scenes. So, they sent me a tape of these additional TV scenes, and I watched them, and I didn't think they were that great. I didn't think it was worth putting them in.”

Thinking Ideas Would Be Tvs Scene Producers Good Ideas Tape

Author:David Zucker

“I don't think that split government is a good idea. Conventional wisdom in Washington for years has been that divided government is good because of a check and a balance. What I believe happens all too often, regardless of which party is there's gridlock. And I think the better argument is give one party a chance, give them a chance with a House and a Senate and a president. Give them a few years to see what they can do. And if you don't like it, put another party in.”

“It's not a good idea to define the boundaries of normality by tearing apart people who are outside of it.”

People Ideas Boundaries Good Ideas Normality Tearing Apart

Author:Jon Ronson

“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.”

Made Ideas Whole Artist Three Careers Stage Painting Elements Good Ideas Skeletons

Author:Josh Smith

“The realization that I came to is that each citizen for himself or herself understands the economics, which is, "I better make more than I spend and I better put something aside for a rainy day, and I want to get a good idea about what to do with the surplus so that perhaps it can grow while I'm sleeping." And that that's capitalism. Everybody practices it, but half of the country - those on the left - deny that it's true.”

Want Ideas Country Left Grows Sleep Half Practice Citizens Capitalism Economics Deny Realization Good Ideas Rainy Rainy Day Surplus

Author:David Mamet

“Making art, good art, is always a struggle. It can make you happy when you pull it off. There's no better feeling. It's beauteous. But it's always about hard work and inspiration and sweat and good ideas.”

Art Ideas Hard Feelings Inspiration Struggle Hard Work Art Is Sweat Good Ideas Make You Happy Good Art

Author:Damien Hirst

“If you've got a good idea and you're willing to do whatever it takes to pursue it, keep your head up and eyes open because you don't know when opportunity will come knocking.”

Ifs Knows Ideas Eye Opportunity Willing Pursue Good Ideas Knocking Whatever It Takes Heads Up

Author:Paula Deen

“Hell is not a subject to be avoided; it is a place to be avoided. Thinking about Hell is actually a very good idea. It's a good way to keep ourselves out of it.”

Thinking Way Ideas Hell Subjects Very Good Good Ideas Avoided Good Way

Author:Dale Ahlquist

“The only way to oppose a bad idea is to replace it with a good idea.”

Way Ideas Good Ideas Bad Ideas

Author:Jack Kemp

“It's a good idea to pay attention to the world and try to understand how it works rather than how you would like it to work.”

World Trying Ideas Pay Attention Pay Attention Good Ideas

Author:Matthew Crawford

“The value of a good idea is in using it.”

Ideas Values Good Ideas

Author:Thomas A. Edison

“It's insulting when outsiders come in and tell a traumatized people what it will take for them to heal... People who have lived through a terrible conflict may be hungry and desperate, but they are not stupid. They often have very good ideas about how peace can evolve, and they need to be asked. That includes women. Most especially women.”

People Needs May Ideas Stupid Terrible Conflict Very Good Hungry Heal Evolve Desperate Good Ideas Outsiders Insulting Not Stupid

Author:Leymah Gbowee

“Where ideas are concerned, America can be counted on to do one of two things: Take a good idea and run it completely into the ground, or take a bad idea and run it completely into the ground.”

Two Ideas Running America Concerned Two Things Good Ideas Bad Ideas

Book:Brain Droppings

Source: Brain Droppings

“The idea for any cartoon (my experience, anyway) is rarely spontaneous. Good ideas usually evolve out of pretty lame ones, and vice versa.”

Ideas Vices Evolve Good Ideas Spontaneous Cartoon Vice Versa Lame

Book:The PreHistory of the Far side: a 10th anniversary exhibit

Source: The PreHistory of the Far side: a 10th anniversary exhibit

“The brain is like a TV set; when it goes blank, it's a good idea to turn off the sound.”

Ideas Turns Sound Brain Tvs Good Ideas Blank Turn Off

Author:Sam Ewing

“If you don’t have a good idea of what to do next after using military force, then don’t use it in the first place.”

Ifs Firsts Ideas Use Next Force Military Good Ideas Military Force

Author:Ted Lieu

“Vegetarianism is a good idea.”

Ideas Good Ideas Vegetarianism

Author:Jerry Springer

“Counting lines is probably a good idea if you want to print it out and are short on paper, but I fail to see the purpose otherwise.”

Ifs Want Ideas Purpose Lines Failing Paper Print Good Ideas Counting

Author:Erik Naggum

“We find the vast majority of people in every country believing that there will be a time when this world will become perfect, when there will be no disease, nor death, nor unhappiness, nor wickedness. That is a very good idea, a very good motive power to inspire and uplift the ignorant. But if we think for a moment, we shall find on the very face of it that it cannot be so. How can it be, seeing that good and evil are the obverse and reverse of the same coin? How can you have good without evil at the same time?”

“There is a much higher probability that a first-class scholar should commit an error than that an author who usually writes nonsense should have one good idea.”

Should Writing Firsts Ideas Class Higher Should Have Errors Commit Nonsense Good Ideas Scholar Probability First Class

Author:Otto E. Neugebauer

“Individuals who are really inspirational are always what changes history. Gandhi had a bunch of good ideas, and he led a non - violent revolution that transformed India.”

Ideas Individual Revolution India Violent Bunch Good Ideas Transformed Non Violent Violent Revolution

Author:Daniel Pinchbeck

“Young people don't even consider that it's a good idea to be out on the fringe, which is where good ideas come from.”

People Ideas Young Good Ideas Fringe

Author:Louis C. K.

“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.”

Ifs Ideas Answers Come Up Good Ideas Bad Ideas

Author:Seth Godin

“Nobody seems to think it's a good idea to mention mistakes, but I think it's important to acknowledge the mistakes you've made in life, because it's really through those that you learn things. I've made hundreds.”

Thinking Made Important Ideas Seems Mistake Acknowledge Good Ideas Mistakes You've Made

Author:Andrew Lloyd Webber

“When you cannot achieve a majority, it's a good idea to get rid of minority stakes.”

Ideas Achieve Majority Minorities Stakes Good Ideas

Author:Mathias Dopfner

“Move fast. A sense of urgency is the one thing you can develop that will separate you from everyone else. When you get a good idea, do it now.”

Ideas Moving One Thing Good Ideas Urgency Sense Of Urgency

Author:Brian Tracy

“I think daily deals are a good idea. Any ad people view as content is a good ad, and that's true for daily-deal ads too.”

People Thinking Ideas Views Deals Ads Good Ideas

Author:Matt Cohler

“Create a good idea and leave it in the darkness; you will then see that people will come with the candles in their hands to find it, because just like the bad, the good has also a special scent!”

People Ideas Hands Darkness Special Good Ideas Candle Scent

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“Anything organic requires some dose of variability so it can adapt all the time, and fixing things is not a good idea.”

Ideas Good Ideas Dose Fixing Variability Fixing Things

Author:Nassim Nicholas Taleb

“I'm very appreciative of, and I also, having traveled the world, know that the United States is one of the few places where there really are no limitations. As long as you've got drive and hard work and a good idea and you can get out there and do your thing, there's no social classes, so in a lot of countries there's a big history of regardless of how much money you may make, there's still that little thing where you're not in society. That doesn't exist here.”

Knows World May Littles Long Stills Ideas Country Hard States Bigs Social United Class United States Hard Work Limitation Little Things Good Ideas Traveled Appreciative Social Class

Author:Gloria Estefan

“You have to go through a lot of crap to get to a good idea.”

Ideas Good Ideas Crap

Author:David Guerrero

“Good ideas are a dime a dozen, bad ones are free.”

Ideas Good Ideas Dozen Dimes Brilliant Ideas

Author:Douglas Horton

“On humanitarian intervention in general, I guess my view is not unlike the view that was attributed to Gandhi, accurately or not, when he was supposedly asked what he thought about western civilization. He is supposed to have said that he thought it would be a good idea. Similarly, humanitarian intervention would be a good idea, in principle.”

Said Ideas Would Be Views Principles Civilization Western Humanitarian Good Ideas Intervention Western Civilization Humanitarian Intervention

Author:Noam Chomsky

“Was it a good idea to spend taxpayer dollars on electric cars in Finland, or on windmills in China? Was it a good idea to borrow all this money from countries like China and spend it on all these various different interest groups?”

Ideas Different Country Interest Groups Car Dollars Various China Good Ideas Electric Taxpayers Interest Groups Finland Windmills Electric Car

Author:Paul Ryan

“Be a collector of good ideas. Keep a journal. If you hear a good idea, capture it, write it down. Don't trust your memory.”

Ifs Writing Ideas Memories Capture Good Ideas Journal Our Memories Collectors Don't Trust

Author:Jim Rohn

“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.”

Ideas Mistake Amount Honor Making Mistakes Good Ideas Electricity Mistaken Frogs

Book:How to Get from January to December

Source: How to Get from January to December

“If you give a good idea to a mediocre group, they'll screw it up. If you give a mediocre idea to a good group, they'll fix it. Or they'll throw it away and come up with something else.”

Ifs Giving Ideas Groups Come Up Good Ideas Mediocre Screws

Author:Edwin Catmull

“Every time you pick up the phone, dial a number, write an e-mail, make a purchase, travel on the bus carrying a cell phone, swipe a card somewhere, you leave a trace, and the Government has decided that it's good idea to collect it all, everything, even if you've never been suspected of doing a crime.”

Ifs Writing Ideas Government Numbers Crime Picks Decided Phones Cards Cells Bus Good Ideas Mail Cell Phone

Author:Edward Snowden

“When communism failed, it wasn't a good idea that had gone wrong, it was a bad idea that had been sustained with incredible determination in the face of all the commonsense arguments, and at the cost of 20 million lives at least, in Russia, to build the socialist Utopia.”

Ideas Faces Millions Gone Cost Determination Argument Incredibles Russia Communism Good Ideas Socialist Utopia Bad Ideas

Author:Martin Amis

“There's some people who say big philanthropy is not such a good idea, meaning that somehow you have enormous power and you're not elected and that that may not be such a good idea to have people with enormous wealth to have so much influence.”

People May Ideas Bigs Wealth Influence Enormous Good Ideas Philanthropy

Author:Charlie Rose

“Having a hangover with small children is never a good idea. I did it once and it was the biggest mistake I've ever made, I've never felt so ill in my life. You have to get out of bed and look after your kid who doesn't care if you've got a sore head.”

Ifs Looks Children Made Ideas Care Kids Felt Mistake Bed Ill Good Ideas Small Child Hangover Biggest Mistake

Author:Sharleen Spiteri

“I've always had good relationships with directors. I'm one of those people where, if there's a good idea coming from the sound guy, I'll take it. Filmmaking is a collaborative effort, whether it's a first-time director or it's Mike Nichols. I think that's the standard that the great ones set.”

People Ifs Thinking Firsts Ideas Guy Sound Effort Directors Standards First Time Good Ideas Filmmaking Mike Great Ones Good Relationship Collaborative Effort

Author:Patrick Wilson

“I think nobody can get me out. I've got a pretty good idea of what I want to hit. If I get my pitch, I'm going to get a hack in. And if I don't get you this time, I'll get you next time. I'm not saying I'm better than anybody, but I am saying that nobody is better than me.”

Ifs Thinking Want Ideas Next Good Ideas Next Time Hacks

Author:Carlos Delgado

“Whenever you find a good idea, search for the owner to honour him!”

Ideas Owners Honour Good Ideas

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“Law Number XXXVI: The thickness of the proposal required to win a multimillion dollar contract is about one millimeter per million dollars. If all the proposals conforming to this standard were piled on top of each other at the bottom of the Grand Canyon it would probably be a good idea.”

Ifs Ideas Law Winning Numbers Millions Standards Dollars Bottom Contracts Good Ideas Conform Proposal Million Dollars Canyons Grand Canyon Thickness

Author:Norman Ralph Augustine

“It’s not a good idea to let on about extreme happy feelings. People get ideas.”

People Ideas Feelings Extremes Good Ideas

Author:Susan Juby

“My feeling is that as far as creativity is concerned, isolation is required. Creation is embarrassing. For every new good idea you have, there are a hundred, ten thousand foolish ones.”

Ideas Feelings Creativity Creation Thousand Ten Hundred Concerned Foolish Isolation Good Ideas Embarrassing

Author:Isaac Asimov