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• If it's a good idea, do it today. Not tomorrow. A good idea rarely gets better over time.

  Larry Winget

  Ideas, Today Not Tomorrow, Get Better

  Larry Winget (2007). “It's Called Work for a Reason!: Your Success is Your Own Damn Fault”, p.68, Penguin

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• My mind contains many good ideas, but it's not always easy to squeeze one out.

  Ashleigh Brilliant

  Ideas, Mind, Easy

  Ashleigh Brilliant (1985). “All I Want is a Warm Bed and a Kind Word and Unlimited Power: Even More Brilliant Thoughts”, Brilliant Enterprises

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• The problem isn't so much finding good ideas (there is no shortage) as embedding the ones we have into everyday practice.

  Alain de Botton

  Practice, Ideas, Everyday

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• The crusades of Vietnam and Watergate seemed like a good idea at the time, even a noble one, not only to the press but perhaps to a majority of Americans.

  Howard Fineman

  Ideas, Majority, Noble

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• I have often wondered who was the first person to realize that eating an artichoke was a good idea.

  Chris Cosentino

  Ideas, Firsts, Realizing

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• Treat your date with the respect and purity you hope your future spouse will have. Keep in mind how you will expect a young man to treat your daughter one day. By listening to your conscience in this way, you'll have a good idea of where to draw the line.

  Jason Evert

  Daughter, Men, Ideas

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• I don't have the energy or the mental security to get involved with all that. I think it's a good idea to be able to disappear into the story, so that the first thing the audience sees isn't you, but the part.

  Jeremy Northam

  Thinking, Ideas, Energy

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• You mean am I for it or against it? You think this is a key question I'm going to be asked on Vega, and you want to make sure I give the right answer? Okay. Overpopulation is why I'm in favor of homosexuality and a celibate clergy. A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism.

  Carl Sagan

  Mean, Thinking, Vegas

  Carl Sagan (1997). “Contact”, p.243, Simon and Schuster

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• Sometimes when you mend a chain, the place where you fix it is strongest of all... Never was a chain that couldn't be broken. Sometimes its even a good idea.

  Bruce Coville

  Ideas, Broken, Sometimes

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• Violence is what people do when they run out of good ideas. It's attractive because it's simple, it's direct, it's almost always available as an option. When you can't think of a good rebuttal for your opponent's argument, you can always punch them in the face.

  James S.A. Corey

  Running, Simple, Thinking

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• My cousin Elroy spent seven years as an IBM taper staring at THINK signs on the walls before he finally got a good idea: He quit.

  Edward Abbey

  Cousin, Wall, Thinking

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.11, RosettaBooks

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• I started in the mailroom, literally, as an intern... in 1974. The legislator I was working for at the time said, 'I want you to get your law degree and come back here and get elected and be the first woman governor.' I kind of took that guy seriously - I thought that sounded like a pretty good idea.

  Claire McCaskill

  Law, Ideas, Guy

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• Good ideas are often murdered by better ones.

  Roddy Doyle

  Ideas

  "Roddy Doyle's rules for writers". Guardian Interview, www.theguardian.com. February 22, 2010.

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• Sometimes it's a good idea to think about what you want from a situation, and try to get it, rather than just blurt out the first thing that comes into your head.

  E. Lockhart

  Thinking, Ideas, Trying

  E. Lockhart (2014). “The Boyfriend Quartet: 15 Boys, 43 Lists, 120 Footnotes, and Too Many Panic Attacks to Count, All in Four Novels about Ruby Oliver”, p.198, Delacorte Books for Young Readers

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• A good idea turns every cog in your mind, making you scared of bed in case the whole machine grinds to a halt.

  Trevor Baylis

  Ideas, Mind, Machines

  "The Riddle: Where Ideas Come From and How to Have Better Ones". Book by Andrew Razeghi, 2008.

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• These days, the problem isn't how to innovate; it's how to get society to adopt the good ideas that already exist.

  Douglas Engelbart

  Ideas, Problem, These Days

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• All the really good ideas I ever had came to me while I was milking a cow.

  Grant Wood

  Ideas, Cows, Incubation

  Thomas Hoving, Grant Wood (2005). “American Gothic: The Biography of Grant Wood's American Masterpiece”, Chamberlain Brothers

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• Good ideas, as we have seen, are not always well received, especially if there are too many of them.

  Meredith Belbin

  Ideas, Resistance, Wells

  R Meredith Belbin (2012). “Management Teams”, p.34, Routledge

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• It is a good idea to 'shop around' before you settle on a doctor. Ask about the condition of his Mercedes. Ask about the competence of his mechanic. Don't be shy! After all, you're paying for it.

  Dave Barry

  Doctors, Ideas, Cynical

  Dave Barry (1984). “Babies and Other Hazards of Sex: How to Make a Tiny Person in Only 9 Months, with Tools You Probably Have Around the Home”, p.9, Rodale

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• The fear of saying something stupid (which stupid people never have) has censored far more good ideas than bad ones.

  Alain de Botton

  Stupid, Ideas, People

  Twitter post from Nov 02, 2014

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• If there are going to be people out there making war on other people, don't you think it's a good idea for some of those people to at least follow a code of ethics? Not 'honor' but something you can pin down and be sure of, something with the same rules for everybody.

  Mercedes Lackey

  War, Thinking, Ideas

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• Communism is like prohibition, it is a good idea, but it won't work.

  Will Rogers

  Ideas, Communism, Prohibition

  'Weekly Articles' (1981) vol. 3, p. 93 (first published 1927)

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• So when a good idea comes, you know, part of my job is to move it around, just see what different people think, get people talking about it, argue with people about it, get ideas moving among that group of 100 people, get different people together to explore different aspects of it quietly, and, you know – just explore things.

  Steve Jobs

  Life, Jobs, Moving

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• There are two things that have to happen before an idea catches on. One is that the idea should be good. The other is that it should fit in with the temper of the age. If it does not, even a good idea may well be passed by.

  Jawaharlal Nehru

  Ideas, Two, Age

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• Everything worthwhile is a good idea, but did you ever notice there is more bad ideas that will work than there is good ones?

  Will Rogers

  Ideas, Worthwhile, Bad Ideas

  Will Rogers (1982). “Will Rogers' Weekly Articles: The Roosevelt Years, 1933-1935”

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