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• Sometimes compromise is important. Sometimes it's better to give in to someone else's wishes in order to have fun as a group or as a couple, or for the benefit of the team. Sometimes compromise is dangerous. We need to guard against compromising our standards to gain the approval or love of someone else. Decide when you can, and when you cannot, compromise. If it's not harmful and you are ambivalent about a decision, then compromise. If it could lead to breaking your values, compromise isn't a good idea.

  Melody Beattie

  Couple, Fun, Team

  Melody Beattie (2009). “More Language of Letting Go: 366 New Daily Meditations”, p.4, Simon and Schuster

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• It's never a good idea for a celebrity to sign autographs or take pictures if a crowd is gathering.

  Chevy Chase

  Ideas, Gathering, Crowds

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• Good ideas come from bad ideas, but only if there are enough of them.

  Seth Godin

  Ideas, Motivational Business, Enough

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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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• We should invest in people not ideas. A good idea is often destroyed by bad people and good people can always make a bad idea better.

  Simon Sinek

  Ideas, People, Should

  Twitter post from Dec 18, 2013

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• Even a bad idea executed is better than a good idea undone.

  Paul Arden

  Ideas, Undone, Bad Ideas

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• Neal had a couple of good ideas and they fit nicely, so that's the way I decided to go.

  Raymond E. Feist

  Couple, Ideas, Way

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• Note to self: It’s a good idea to ask, “What am I not doing?

  Ben Horowitz

  Self, Ideas, Notes

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• The illness of a doctor is always worse than the illnesses of his patients.The patients only feel, but the doctor, as well as feeling, has a pretty good idea of the destructive effect of the disease on his constitution.This is a case in which knowledge brings death nearer.

  Maxim Gorky

  Doctors, Ideas, Feelings

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• Here is how you know someone has had a good idea: Other people freely admit to their friends that said idea has changed their lives. Most people today will grant that fire and the wheel are the big two. After that, any attempts to rank the greatest ideas of all time are going to draw lots of argument. You’ll have zealots pimping this god or that on the one hand, scientists pimping Darwin on the other, and then practical people pointing at written language and saying, look, fellas, the reason those ideas have gone viral is because someone figured out how to write them down.

  Kevin Hearne

  Writing, Fire, Hands

  Kevin Hearne (2014). “The Iron Druid Chronicles 6-Book Bundle: Hounded, Hexed, Hammered, Tricked, Trapped, Hunted”, p.643, Del Rey

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• Tod's pale brows arched halfway up his forehead, and he looked suddenly, achingly wistful. "She knows not what she says..." Maybe not. But I was starting to get a pretty good idea.

  Rachel Vincent

  Ideas, Starting, Pale

  Rachel Vincent (2011). “If I Die”, p.138, Harlequin

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• What did Isabelle want?" Jace asked. Alec hesitated. "Isabelle says the Queen of the Seelie Court has requested an audience with us." "Sure," said Magnus. "And Madonna wants me as a backup dancer on her next world tour." Alec looked puzzled. "Who's Madonna?" "Who's the Queen of the Seelie Court?" said Clary. "She is the Queen of Faerie," said Magnus. "Well, the local one, anyway." Jace put his head in his hands. "Tell Isabelle no." "But she thinks it's a good idea," Alec protested. "Then tell her no twice.

  Cassandra Clare

  Queens, Thinking, Hands

  Cassandra Clare (2010). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series (3 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass”, p.543, Simon and Schuster

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• Discord says it's a good idea. That's comforting.

  Melissa Marr

  Ideas, Comforting, Discord

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• micheal sighed and closed his eyes for a moment'i'm not sure that was a good idea claire:it will be if you go see her tonight and tell her well watever oh but watch out shes gone all buffy with the stakes and things

  Rachel Caine

  Eye, Ideas, Watches

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• Surprisingly, fainting sounded like a really good idea. If I fainted, I'd be unconscious, so I wouldn't have to see the impossible anymore, nor would I have to feel so dizzy and sick. Than maybe when I woke up, all of this would go away and I'd find it was all just a bad dream. The mist started to turn dark around the edges.....For the record: fainting sucks.

  Jenna Black

  Dream, Dark, Ideas

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• When you think about it, most of the good ideas came along to make sin a whole lot easier.

  Joe Hill

  Thinking, Ideas, Sin

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• I won the argument against the knife that night, but barely. I had some other good ideas around that time--about how jumping off a building or blowing my brains out with a gun might stop the suffering. but something about spending a night with a knife in my hand did it. The next morning I called my friend Susan as the sun came up, begged her to help me. I don't think a woman in the whole history of my family had ever done that before, had ever sat in the middle of the road like that and said, in the middle of her life, "I cannot walk another step further--somebody has to help me.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Morning, Gun, Night

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2007). “Eat Pray Love 10th-Anniversary Edition: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia”, p.101, Penguin

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• I sort of recognize it, as opposed to shaping it. Oh, that's a good idea, that's a good line. I wonder where I can use that. And when you get into a rhyme group like 'not,' you got a lot of rhymes, you got a lot of choices. The more you do it, the luckier you get.

  Paul Simon

  Writing, Ideas, Choices

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• Good ideas come from everywhere. It's more important to recognize a good idea than to author it.

  Jeanne Gang

  Wisdom, Ideas, Design

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• If you have a good idea, get it out there. For every idea I’ve realized, I have ten I sat on for a decade till someone else did it first. Write it. Shoot it. Publish it. Crochet it, sauté it, whatever. MAKE.

  Joss Whedon

  Writing, Ideas, Firsts

  "Dollhouse’s Joss Whedon Answers Your Questions" by Rebecca Harper, blog.hulu.com. March 6, 2009.

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• I've never thought it was a good idea to act back-to-back. If you are going to have any chance of replicating life, you need to live it. I also never forgot something Johnny Depp said to me, which Marlon Brando said to him, 'You only have so many faces in your pocket.' I really admire artists who take the time to recharge their batteries and not continually call on it. I think you can spot tired and jaded artists quite quickly.

  Rupert Friend

  Tired, Thinking, Artist

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• Nobody has a monopoly on good ideas

  Kevin O'Leary

  Ideas, Monopoly

  Twitter post from Oct 2, 2015

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• ... a good idea always attracts other good ideas.

  Patrick Ness

  Ideas

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• There is no authority who decides what is a good idea.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Ideas, Physics, Authority

  Richard P. Feynman (2009). “The Meaning of It All: Thoughts of a Citizen-Scientist”, p.14, Hachette UK

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• I don't know if it's a good idea to give a woman a box of bullets when she's got a pimple.

  Janet Evanovich

  Ideas, Giving, Bullets

  Janet Evanovich (2007). “More Plums in One: Four to Score, High Five, and Hot Six”, p.675, Macmillan

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