Good Ideas Quotes - Page 28

• You can delegate a lot of things, but you can't delegate PRAYER. I'd rather have one GOD idea than a thousand GOOD ideas.

  Mark Batterson

  Prayer, Ideas, Thousand

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• Washington is a place where good ideas go to die.

  Barack Obama

  Ideas, America, Politics

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• With the magnitude of the challenges we face right now, what we need in Washington are not more political tactics, we need more good ideas. We don't need more point scoring, we need more problem solving.

  Barack Obama

  Ideas, Political, Challenges

  Barack Obama's remarks on the Federal Budget in Room 350 of the Dwight D. Eisenhower Executive Office Building, Washington, D.C., www.washingtonpost.com. March 17, 2009.

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• So we have a choice to make. We can once again let Washington's bad habits stand in the way of progress. Or we can pull together and say that in America, our destiny isn't written for us but by us. We can place good ideas ahead of old ideological battles, and a sense of purpose above the same narrow partisanship. We can act boldly to turn crisis into opportunity and, together, write the next great chapter in our history and meet the test of our time.

  Barack Obama

  Writing, Destiny, Opportunity

  "The Action Americans Need". www.washingtonpost.com. February 5, 2009.

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• I think it's a good idea to tie Peter Mandelson to a van. Such an act would be cruel and barbaric and inhuman. But it would at least cheer everyone up a bit.

  Jeremy Clarkson

  Cheer, Thinking, Ideas

  "Get me a rope before Mandelson wipes us all out" by Jeremy Clarkson, www.thetimes.co.uk. November 8, 2009.

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• One can lose a good idea by not writing it down, yet by losing it one can have it: it nourishes other asides it knows nothing of, would not recognize itself in, yet when the negotiations are terminated, speaks in the acts of that progenitor, and does recognize itself, is grateful for not having done so earlier.

  John Ashbery

  Grateful, Writing, Ideas

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• [The poll tax] was a classic case of a good idea being entrusted to Chris Patten and becoming a terrible failure.

  Norman Tebbit

  Ideas, Becoming, Classic

  BBC, November 16, 2000.

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• There's a screen direction in the script for the pilot where it says, 'Jim Harper, mid-20s, enters,' and it said something to the effect of: 'He's confident without being cocky. He has no idea that he could be considered attractive, because he saw All The President's Men when he was thirteen and never looked up.' It was just a great little gem of a screen direction, and I felt immediately from just that, that I had a good idea of how to play this guy.

  John Gallagher, Jr.

  Cocky, Men, Play

  "Hot Topic: John Gallagher Jr." by Seth Plattner, www.elle.com. June 22, 2012.

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• That was how divorced from the human scale modern warfare had become. You could smash and destroy from unthinkable distances, obliterate planets from beyond their own system and provoke stars into novae from light-years off... and still have no good idea why you were really fighting.

  Iain Banks

  Stars, Distance, Fighting

  "Consider Phlebas (The Culture, Book 1)". Book by Iain Banks (Chapter 2 "The Hand of God 137", p. 32), 1987.

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• Science usually operates in sort of three modes, things that are well established, we know what we're talking about, more highly confident. There are competing explanations, we have a pretty good idea, but we're not sure. And then things are speculative.

  Stephen Schneider

  Talking, Ideas, Three

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• A good idea is something that does not solve just one single problem, but rather can solve multiple problems at once.

  Shigeru Miyamoto

  Ideas, Doe, Problem

  "Nintendo's Shigeru Miyamoto" by Johnny Minkley, www.eurogamer.net. March 31, 2010.

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• The time for miracles has either passed or not come yet, besides, miracles, genuine miracles, whatever people say, are not such a good idea, if it means destroying the very order of things in order to improve them.

  Jose Saramago

  Mean, Order, Ideas

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• I never plan ahead, with the exception of the Amber books which had to proceed in sequence. But I don't really like to know what I'm going to be working on a year in advance. So I just sign blank contracts for books and whatever strikes me as a good idea is what I write about.

  Roger Zelazny

  Book, Writing, Years

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• I decided a long time ago I didn't want to be a star personality and live my life out in public. I don't think it's a good idea to wave personality about like a flag and become labeled.

  Paul Scofield

  Stars, Thinking, Ideas

  "Paul Scofield, British Actor, Dies at 86" by Benedict Nightingale, www.nytimes.com. March 21, 2008.

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• I was planning on writing a detailed review of several books on web security tonight, but the Obama collapse has superseded my best-laid plans. Here’s another open thread for this important topic, as America wrestles with the issue of whether it would be a good idea to elect a President with a 20-year history of associating with people who hate America.

  Charles Foster Johnson

  Hate, Book, Writing

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• When a problem seems intractable, it is often a good idea to try to study "toy" versions of it in the hope that as the toys become increasingly larger and more sophisticated, they would metamorphose, in the limit, to the real thing.

  Doron Zeilberger

  Real, Ideas, Trying

  "Self-avoiding Walks, the Language of Science, and Fibonacci Numbers". Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference, Volume 54, Issue 1, September 1996.

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• A lot of times people start out with a lot of good ideas, but then they don't execute. They lose the purity of their vision. You end up running around in circles.

  Jan Koum

  Running, Circles, Ideas

  "We want a billion Indians on WhatsApp, says co-founder Jan Koum". Interview with Romit Guha, economictimes.indiatimes.com. February 26, 2014.

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• Whoever decided that comic valentines were a good idea should have been sent away to think it over.

  Gladys Taber

  Valentine, Thinking, Should Have

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• If you write, good ideas must come welling up into you so that you have something to write. If good ideas do not come at once, or for a long time, do not be troubled at all. Wait for them. Put down little ideas no matter how insignificant they are. But do not feel, any more, guilty about idleness and solitude.

  Brenda Ueland

  Writing, Ideas, Long

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• To lead a successful life, then, it's a good idea to work out what you really want. Then get together some plans. Then set some goals.

  John C. Parkin

  Successful, Ideas, Work Out

  John C. Parkin (2010). “F**k It: The Ultimate Spiritual Way”, p.107, Hay House, Inc

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• Well they have an input into policy but in the end governments are elected to put together policy but the good thing about the Wentworth Group is that you know you've got 11 pretty capable people with a lot of good ideas.

  John Anderson

  Government, Ideas, People

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• In the past, it was easier to believe in my own effectiveness. If I worked hard, with good colleagues and good ideas, we could make a difference. But now, I sincerely doubt that.

  Margaret J. Wheatley

  Believe, Past, Ideas

  Margaret J. Wheatley (2010). “Finding Our Way: Leadership for an Uncertain Time (Large Print 16pt)”, p.327, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• That’s the key to new and good ideas; they come from having a very broad and multidisciplinary range of interests.

  Robin Chase

  Keys, Ideas, Range

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• We wanted to be as expansive as possible to make sure we didn't preclude some good ideas.

  John Poindexter

  Ideas, Brilliant, Wanted

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• I don't hear record companies coming up with any good ideas or suggestions. Historically, if it ain't their idea, it ain't no good, so you got that to contend with.

  Levon Helm

  Ideas, Suggestions, Records

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