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• 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.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Ideas, Meditation

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• 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.

  Ed Bliss

  Ideas, Bird, Worms

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

  John C. Maxwell

  Ideas, Needs, Spoiled

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• 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.

  Ben Affleck

  Hard Work, Gambling, Ideas

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

  Andy Stanley

  Ideas, Tasks, Difficult

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• 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.

  Julie Klassen

  Writing, Editors, Ideas

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

  Jimmy Breslin

  Hangover, Ideas, Tests

  Jimmy Breslin (1997). “I Want to Thank My Brain for Remembering Me: A Memoir”, Macmillan Reference USA

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• On this day, when we're celebrating our constitutional heritage, I urge you to be faithful to that heritage - to impose on our fellow citizens only the restrictions that are there in the Constitution, not invent new ones, not to invent the right because it's a good idea.

  Antonin Scalia

  Ideas, Scary, Faithful

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• My favorite thing is to be naked, which is why I always live in remote areas. My ideal is to wake in the morning and run around the meadows naked. I think it's a good idea to live in harmony with nature.

  Daryl Hannah

  Running, Morning, Thinking

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• Think beyond the pain. Think beyond the difficulty. Commit to having one good idea every day. What new idea will you claim today?

  Mary Morrissey

  Pain, Thinking, Ideas

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• Nature is a tenacious recycler, every dung heap and fallen redwood tree a bustling community of saprophytes wresting life from the dead and discarded, as though intuitively aware that there is nothing new under the sun. Throughout the physical world, from the cosmic to the subatomic, the same refrain resounds. Conservation: it's not just a good idea, it's the law.

  Natalie Angier

  Nature, Law, Ideas

  Natalie Angier (2008). “The Canon: A Whirligig Tour of the Beautiful Basics of Science”, p.113, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• We [comics] create our own reality on the show. I'm in a cocoon of the character's creation. Even within that reality, he's in a cocoon. While I'm an improviser and enjoy discovery, the show follows a script. I have a pretty good idea what's going to happen. It's a very ­crafted, controlled environment.

  Stephen Colbert

  Character, Reality, Discovery

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• People who snack sometimes sometimes eat kind of thoughtlessly and end up eating a lot more. But in principle, it's a really good idea if you can exert the kind of discipline needed.

  Michael Pollan

  Snacks, Ideas, Discipline

  Source: indianapublicmedia.org

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• The issue of snacking is complicated. In principle, "grazing" is probably a good idea. It would even out the insulin spikes and things like that from eating large meals. The problem is it makes it harder for people to control the amount they're eating.

  Michael Pollan

  Ideas, Issues, People

  Source: indianapublicmedia.org

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• I've been very careful about what I say yes to and what I say no to. And I think seriously always about... this may be a good idea right now or it may be a lot of money right now, but will it be good for me five years from now? Will it be fun? Will it make me hate myself? I think about all of those things.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Fun, Hate, Thinking

  Interview with Andrew Friedman, toqueland.com. May 2, 2014.

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• I'm willing to work with anyone of either party who has a good idea and the commitment to see through. And we should all expect you to hold us accountable for our progress or our failure to deliver.

  Barack Obama

  Party, Commitment, Ideas

  "Darrell Issa, Fred Upton Talk Oversight; Allen West, Mike Lee on Tea Party Conservatives". "Fox News Sunday" with Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. January 2, 2011.

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• With God's help, I've not had a drink in nine and a half years. That's my whole story right there. And because of that, I'm doing this. I'm making records, I'm touring. I was so involved in just getting brain damaged, I wasn't doing anything. I had great ideas, many notebooks filled with notes, some of them I can read and some of them I just can't read, but I really didn't do anything constructive, it was all just good ideas. Now I'm trying to lead a constructive life a day at a time.

  Ringo Starr

  Notebook, Years, Ideas

  Source: alltheseletters.com

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• Animations are really powerful - it's not just entertainment, it's a very cunning way to get good ideas across.

  Benedict Cumberbatch

  Powerful, Ideas, Way

  "Q&A: Benedict Cumberbatch talks Penguins Of Madagascar". Interview with Andy Lea, www.dailystar.co.uk. December 7, 2014.

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• Hillary Clinton respects good ideas wherever they come from. That's something I haven't seen in a lot of powerful people.

  Ronan Farrow

  Powerful, Ideas, People

  "Ronan Farrow: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. September 13, 2013.

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• Usually, the best ideas come from other people's good ideas, which then, after a short gestation period, become your ideas.

  Amy Sedaris

  Gestation Period, Ideas, People

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• Now some people when they sit down to write and nothing special comes, no good ideas, are so frightened that they drink a lot of strong coffee to hurry them up, or smoke packages of cigarettes, or take drugs or get drunk. They do not know that ideas come slowly, and that the more clear, tranquil and unstimulated you are, the slower the ideas come, but the better they are.

  Brenda Ueland

  Strong, Coffee, Writing

  Brenda Ueland (2013). “If You Want to Write”, p.25, Simon and Schuster

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• Neither party has God on its side, a monopoly on good ideas, or a lock on any single fiscal, social, or moral philosophy.

  Michael Bloomberg

  Philosophy, Party, Ideas

  "Special Report" With Brit Hume, www.foxnews.com. June 19, 2007.

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• it's a good idea to wait a few months before joining anything when you arrive at a village. A bookseller friend who retired to nearby Oxfordshire, and was worried he might be bored, got himself on to every village committee in the first six months, and spent the next ten years extricating himself.

  Jilly Cooper

  Ideas, Years, Bored

  Jilly Cooper (2012). “Angels Rush In”, p.402, Random House

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• Self-criticism, like self-administered brain surgery, is perhaps not a good idea. Can the 'self' see the 'self' with any objectivity?

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Objectivity, Ideas, Self

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• I am pretty sick with myself! It seemed a pretty good idea at the time. Around the time I turned 30, I started to feel very creative, more creative than I had been before which is good and I like that.

  Ryan Gosling

  Ideas, Sick, Creative

  "The Ides of March - Ryan Gosling interview". Interview with Jack Foley, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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