Good Ideas Quotes - Page 19

• I believe that we have better ideas. But I also believe that good ideas don't matter if people don't hear them.

  Barack Obama

  Believe, Ideas, People

  Source: time.com

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• I started to write the song. And I was in Gladewater, Texas, one night with Carl Perkins and I said, I've got a good idea for a song. And I sang him the first verse that I had written, and I said it's called "Because You're Mine." And he said, "I Walk The Line" is a better title, so I changed it to "I Walk The Line."

  Johnny Cash

  Song, Writing, Night

  Source: wrvo.org

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• George was the easy part. As for Michael, I had always liked the name, and my father's brother is named Michael. I thought it was a good idea because there are a lot of Greeks in England with the second name of Michael; as a child I had a Greek friend whose second name was Michael. It was like getting the name that I wanted without having to get rid of the Greek element.

  George Michael

  Brother, Children, Father

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• If I were retired I wouldn't know what to do because I'd have to think, well, now what is it I want to do? And what I want to do is what I'm doing. I enjoy coming up with new ideas, which if I'm lucky they might be good ideas. I enjoy seeing them take shape. And I'm having fun doing it. So I wouldn't know why I'd want to retire.

  Stan Lee

  Fun, Thinking, Ideas

  "Stan Lee on Realism in the World of Comic Heroes". "Morning Edition" with Renee Montagne, www.npr.org. December 27, 2006.

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• You remember when Tobey Maguire was first selected, most of the fans were angry. They felt, what kind of a guy is that for a superhero? Nobody thought it was a good idea. Yet he turned out to be great. The people at Marvel who do these things are really pretty smart. If they chose this guy, he'll probably be terrific.

  Stan Lee

  Smart, Ideas, People

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• Extravagant is, I think, the word we all thought when we met ... A lot of money went into that [The Grand Tour's ]. I just thought it would be a good idea to have a bridge from the old to the new and that was a way of saying 'Right, well now look where we are.'

  Jeremy Clarkson

  Thinking, Bridges, Ideas

  Source: www.cbc.ca

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• 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.

  Otto E. Neugebauer

  Writing, Should Have, Class

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• 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?

  Swami Vivekananda

  Uplifting, Country, Believe

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• 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.

  Ted Lieu

  Military, Ideas, Next

  "Congress at War". www.politico.com. July, 2015.

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• 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.

  Kevin Kelly

  Time, Stress, Passion

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• 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.

  Robert Townsend

  Ideas, Poor, Sponsors

  Robert Townsend (1988). “Further up the organization”, HarperCollins

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• 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.

  David J. Schwartz

  Ideas, People, Ghost

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• 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.

  Robert A. Burton

  Fall, Humility, Objectivity

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• 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.

  Scott Adams

  Science, Ideas, Rooms

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• 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.

  Christoph Waltz

  Distance, Elephants, Ideas

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

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• 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.

  Lea DeLaria

  Ideas, Black, Enough

  "Lizz Winstead's Day". Interview with Lea DeLaria, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 25, 2015.

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• 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.

  Jack Nicholson

  Strong, Ideas, People

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• 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.

  Bret Easton Ellis

  Book, Writing, Thinking

  Interview with Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. April 22, 2009.

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• 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.

  Dacia Maraini

  Writing, Publishing House, Ideas

  "A ‘special’ writer. Dacia Maraini in interview". Interview with Vincenza Fanizza, www.threemonkeysonline.com.

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

  Reid Hoffman

  Thinking, Should Have, Ideas

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• 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.

  Mamoru Oshii

  Mean, Ideas, Wonderful Person

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• 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.

  George Carlin

  Ideas, People, Laughing

  Source: mavericksofthemind.com

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• 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.

  George Carlin

  Children, Thinking, Law

  Source: mavericksofthemind.com

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• 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.

  Herbert Hainer

  Believe, Games, Ideas

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• 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.

  Stephen King

  Morning, Writing, Dark

  Interview with Phil Konstantin, americanindian.net. July 1987.

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