Brilliant Ideas Quotes - Page 8

• It's a romantic notion that you're going to have one brilliant idea and then everything is going to be great... but the execution and delivery are what's key.

  Sergey Brin

  Keys, Ideas, Execution

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• The most brilliant idea, with no execution, is worth $20. The most brilliant idea takes great execution to be worth $20,000,000.

  Derek Sivers

  Ideas, Execution, Brilliant

  "'Anything You Want': Ideas are just a multiplier of execution" by Derek Sivers, sivers.org. August 16, 2005.

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• My friend had a brilliant idea. This impressed me. It reflected an immense deal of credit on his brain. But when he expressed it,it lost all value, and enjoyed but a commonplace status. My friend blamed this devaluation on the language. "I hate English," he said. So he studied another language. He mastered it so perfectly that there was no room left in his brain for a brilliant idea. Now he has a grudge against words. He refuses to use them. He prefers to shrug or grunt. A new crop of ideas is growing. They show promise of future refinement.

  Marvin L. Cohen

  Hate, Ideas, Brain

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• I saw brilliant ideas coming out of the [Chipko] movement that needed better articulation, that needed elaboration and systematic analysis. I just followed that and it's been very exciting.

  Vandana Shiva

  Ideas, Analysis, Movement

  Source: scottlondon.com

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• Innovators have to be open. They have to be able to imagine things that others cannot and be willing to challenge their own preconceptions. They also need to be conscientious. An innovator who has brilliant ideas but lacks the discipline and persistence to carry them out is merely a dreamer ... But crucially, innovators need to be disagreeable ... They are people willing to take social risks-to do things that others might disapprove of.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Creativity, Persistence, Ideas

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• If I'm going to fly for more than twenty feet it's generally a good idea to get a stunt guy.

  Joe Flanigan

  Ideas, Feet, Guy

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• Don't have good ideas if you aren't willing to be responsible for them.

  Alan Perlis

  Ideas, Responsible, Computing

  "Epigrams on Programming". ACM SIGPLAN Notices 17 (9), pp. 7-13, pu.inf.uni-tuebingen.de. September 1982.

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• So, yeah, I think it had a major effect. I think in franchising younger people, it was just an idea that's never been trotted out before, but it makes perfectly good sense.

  Kurt Loder

  Thinking, Perfectly Good, Ideas

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• Today, bilateral relations with Britain are excellent, with cooperation in many areas and both countries continuing to work on strengthening these ties.

  Hassanal Bolkiah

  Country, Ties, Today

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• I'm not a singer, and I'm not a brilliant dancer.

  Jeremy Bulloch

  Dancer, Singers, Brilliant

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• For me, this is a familiar image - people in the organization ready and willing to do good work, wanting to contribute their ideas, ready to take responsibility, and leaders holding them back, insisting that they wait for decisions or instructions

  Margaret J. Wheatley

  Responsibility, Organization, Ideas

  Margaret J. Wheatley (2010). “Finding Our Way: Leadership for an Uncertain Time (Large Print 16pt)”, p.77, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• In every school, more boys wanted to be remembered as a star athlete than as a brilliant student.

  James S. Coleman

  Stars, Athlete, School

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• 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

  Peace, War, Brilliant

  Lytton Strachey (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Lytton Strachey (Illustrated)”, p.37, Delphi Classics

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• Books are something social - a writer speaking to a reader - so I think making the reading of a book the center of a social event, the meeting of a book club, is a brilliant idea.

  Yann Martel

  Book, Reading, Thinking

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• I'm not so interested any more in how a great deal of science fiction goes. It goes into things like Star Wars and Star Trek which all go excellent in their own way.

  Robert Sheckley

  Stars, War, Science

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• Brilliant ideas are gifts from God, sent to you in answer to your prayers . . . and all you need to do is act upon the ideas, one divinely guided step at a time. If you want to validate if an idea is truly heavensent, ask your angels to send you clear signs.

  Doreen Virtue

  Prayer, Angel, Ideas

  FaceBook post by Doreen Virtue from Sep 01, 2014

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• My hard work and excellent training entitled me to be a better actress than some of my competitors

  Pola Negri

  Hard Work, Training, Actresses

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• An excellent job with a dubious undertaking, which is like saying it would be great if it wasn't awful.

  Ada Louise Huxtable

  Jobs, Dubious, Would Be

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• I absolutely love this. Top notch art and scripting encapsulating a brilliant idea.

  Leinil Francis Yu

  Art, Ideas, Brilliant

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• Land began to be seen as something to be owned privately and exploited for private interests, and never was entirely reconciled with the old ideas that land should be utilized in common for the good of all.

  Neil Abercrombie

  Land, Ideas, Common

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• We gave up on the idea of trying to make the record a good representation of the live performance.

  John Cale

  Ideas, Trying, Records

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• When shooting in the dark, it is a good idea to use a machine gun.

  Craig Reucassel

  Dark, Gun, Ideas

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• As a human rights issue, the effort to end violence against women becomes a government's obligation, not just a good idea.

  Charlotte Bunch

  Rights, Government, Ideas

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• I had the idea that I should beat up every player I tangled with and nothing ever convinced me it wasn't a good idea.

  Ted Lindsay

  Player, Ideas, Tangled

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• Because the GIs were sent massively to South Vietnam, maybe it's a good idea to have a broadcast for them.

  Hanoi Hannah

  Ideas, Vietnam, Gis

  "The Search for Hanoi Hannah". Interview with Don North, www.psywarrior.com.

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