Bad Ideas Quotes - Page 6

• ...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

  Ideas, Stopping, Sitting

  Stephen King (2000). “On Writing: A Memoir Of The Craft”, p.47, Simon and Schuster

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• ... but the pendulum has swung way out of whack here. A bad idea is still bad, and the pivot happy world we're in today feels suboptimal.

  Sam Altman

  Ideas, World, Today

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• Critical Race Theory offers of discrimination frameworks as ways of understanding and eradicating racism. The focus on "discrimination" as the way to understand racism in the US has meant that racism is considered a question of discriminatory intentions - whether or not somebody intentionally left someone out or did something harmful because of their biased feelings about a person's race. This focus on individual racists with bad ideas hides the reality that racism exists wherever conditions of racialized maldistribution exist.

  Dean Spade

  Reality, Race, Ideas

  "On Normal Life". Interview with Natalie Oswin, societyandspace.org. January 15, 2014.

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• We're [Ocean Conservancy group] trying to convince people it's a bad idea to catch fish faster than they can reproduce. That should be a duh, but it's still going on.

  Mark Powell

  Ocean, Ideas, People

  Source: www.treehugger.com

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• I really think that people have to think safety; taking risks for higher yield is a bad idea once you're in late or latish middle age.

  Paul Krugman

  Thinking, Yield, Ideas

  "Ask the Author Live: Larissa MacFarquhar with Paul Krugman". Live chat, www.newyorker.com. February 19, 2010.

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• There was a lot of maneuvering on the part of the Roosevelt administration to get the stars aligned so that that attack would happen. There's just no question about that; you don't even have to look at the decoding of diplomatic cables or anything else. FDR's own admiral thought it was a bad idea to have the fleet confined in one place way out in the middle of the Pacific.

  Nicholson Baker

  Stars, Ideas, Looks

  "Nicholson Baker: Human Smoke" by James Mustich, www.barnesandnoble.com. April 7, 2008 Share.

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• Islam, at the moment, is the motherlode of bad ideas.

  Sam Harris

  Ideas, Islam, Moments

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• Why do humans never do as they're told? Someone should replace you all with robots. No, on second though, they shouldn't, bad idea.

  Jonathan Morris

  Ideas, Robots, Should

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• If owning stocks is a long-term project for you, following their changes constantly is a very, very bad idea. It's the worst possible thing you can do, because people are so sensitive to short-term losses. If you count your money every day, you'll be miserable.

  Daniel Kahneman

  Loss, Ideas, Long

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• 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

  Should Have, Ideas, Rising

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• I've not been a prolific poet, and it always seemed to me to be a bad idea to feel that you had to produce in order to get... credits. Production of a collection of poems every three years or every five years, or whatever, looks good, on paper. But it might not be good; it might be writing on a kind of automatic pilot.

  James Fenton

  Writing, Order, Years

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• 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.

  George Carlin

  Running, Ideas, Two

  George Carlin (1998). “Brain Droppings”, Hyperion

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• Lawyers can't tell you you can't do something. They can warn you about risks, and in extreme cases tell you that something is such a bad idea you'll need to get someone other than them to do it but the judgment call of whether the risk is worth it is the entrepreneur's.

  Bram Cohen

  Ideas, Entrepreneur, Risk

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• 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 Žižek

  Ideas, Guy, Nazism

  Interview with Dianna Dilworth, www.believermag.com. July 2004.

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• 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

  Ideas, Political, Groups

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• The business side of film has goofed up so many things, but even that's changing. It happened to the music industry and now it's happening to the film studios. It's crazy what's going on. But artists should have control of their work; especially if, as I always say, you never turn down a good idea and never take a bad idea.

  David Lynch

  Crazy, Artist, Should Have

  "David Lynch Interviews – Uncut". Interview with Scott Thill, www.wired.com. March 10, 2006.

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• By the time I was seventeen, I was on my way to Hollywood and didn't look back. My family is supportive now, but like any adult guardian of a seventeen-year-old daughter, they were not thrilled with my plan to run off to the LA to make it as an actress. Even a somewhat functioning parent would think that was a bad, bad idea. Lucky for me, I didn't listen to them.

  Amber Heard

  Running, Daughter, Thinking

  "Amber Heard: 20(ish) Questions". Interview with Eric Spitznagel, www.ericspitznagel.com. August 20, 2011.

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• I have a tendency to hire people who tend to be unattractive to the studios. Maybe this is a bad idea.

  Charlie Kaufman

  Ideas, People, Unattractive

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• China is not a great idea: capitalism and a dictator. It's like the two worst possible things you could imagine together. It's a very bad idea.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Ideas, Two, Together

  "The Voice: Fran Lebowitz". Interview with Francesco Clemente, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 11, 2016.

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• It's not at all a bad idea for scientific questions to be chosen because a democratic deliberation would identify them as important for people's lives.

  Philip Kitcher

  Ideas, People, Important

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• There's, like, marks next to an actor's name or something, and boy does that go up and down! Somewhere in there, which always causes my mate Miss Ruby Wax great hilarity, I was offered a biopic of Frank Sinatra. Even I knew that was a bad idea! They'll throw anything at you at certain times. So, you know, to thine own self be true.

  Alan Rickman

  Boys, Self, Names

  "Alan Rickman: The Empire Interview". Interview with Nev Pierce, www.empireonline.com. January 14, 2016.

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• I have done conferences explaining that cloud is a bad idea. It's putting all your eggs in one basket.

  Michael Demon Calce

  Clouds, Eggs, Ideas

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• 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

  Song, Ideas, Water

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• It shook up Trout to realize that even he could bring evil into the world — in the form of bad ideas.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Ideas, Evil, Trout

  Kurt Vonnegut (1999). “Breakfast of Champions: Or, Goodbye Blue Monday!”, CNIB, 197

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• 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

  Ideas, Particular, Knows

  Holly Black (2011). “Red Glove”, p.262, Simon and Schuster

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