Good Ideas Quotes - Page 29

• I fancy that no good ideas upon that campaign will be mentioned at any time that did not receive their share of consideration by General Lee.

  James Longstreet

  Ideas, Campaigns, Fancy

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• We were happy a hundred years ago. We knew that there were exploiters and exploited, wealthy and poor, and we had a perfect idea of how to get rid of injustice; we would expropriate the owners and turn the wealth over to the common good. We expropriated the owners and we created one of the most monstrous and oppressive social systems in world history. And we keep repeating that in principle everything was all right, only some unfortunate accidents slipped in and slightly spoiled the good idea. Now let us start afresh.

  Leszek Kolakowski

  War, Ideas, Years

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• Everything in New Orleans is a good idea. Bijou temple-type cottages and lyric cathedrals side by side. Houses and mansions, structures of wild grace. Italianate, Gothic, Romanesque, Greek Revival standing in a long line in the rain. Roman Catholic art. Sweeping front porches, turrets, cast-iron balconies, colonnades- 30-foot columns, gloriously beautiful- double pitched roofs, all the architecture of the whole wide world and it doesn't move.

  Bob Dylan

  Beautiful, Art, Moving

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• The most important question of the 21st century is not what or how much, it is 'How?' How do you propose to turn your good ideas into positive changes in other people's lives? You must be the 'how generation.'

  William J. Clinton

  Ideas, People, Important

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• I always say the first sign of a good idea is a lot of people not believing in it. I can tell you this right now, if you have an idea that makes complete logical sense and people don’t believe in it, then you probably have a brilliant idea.

  Steve Stoute

  Believe, Ideas, People

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• Progress-progress is the dirtiest word in the language-who ever told us- And made us believe it-that to take a step forward was necessarily, was always A good idea?

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Believe, Ideas, Progress

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• But with lots of good ideas, implementation is the key, and so we need to keep our eye on the ball as we go forward and make sure that people honor their pledges in terms of financial commitments, and that we actually use this money so that it makes a real difference.

  Mitchell Reiss

  Real, Commitment, Eye

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• There really was nothing like it at the time. We had good ideas for implementation, so we proceeded. I think it was an excellent solution to the reliability issues with existing search engines.

  Shawn Fanning

  Thinking, Ideas, Issues

  "Q&A: Napster creator Shawn Fanning". Interview with Giancarlo Varanini, March 3, 2000.

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• You look back in time to when there was slavery and you think 'how did people even remotely believe that this was a good idea?'.It's incomprehensible for us to think of what the mindset was 100 or 200 years ago. I hope to make the present as incomprehensible to the future as the past is to us.

  Stefan Molyneux

  Believe, Past, Thinking

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• True Excellence requires a worthy dream, a good Idea of how to realize it and the courage to risk failure to achieve it.

  William J. Clinton

  Dream, Ideas, Risk

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• It is a good idea for everyone who does not have contra-indications to receive a flu shot.

  Amy Johnson

  Ideas, Doe, Flu

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• I really want to get into designing my own business suit. I've designed a couple suits for myself that I've worn in the past, and I have a good idea of what I want and need to use.

  Ryan Lochte

  Couple, Past, Ideas

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• You'll never regret writing any letter out of love. However, it's a good idea to reread anything you've written in anger.

  Mary Matalin

  Regret, Writing, Ideas

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• ...it seemed appropriate that I should develop some kind of illness. This is a good idea when you are at a loose end because everything, up to and including herpes, is better than being bored.

  Jeremy Clarkson

  Ideas, Bored, Kind

  Jeremy Clarkson (2004). “The world according to Clarkson”

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• As a writer, you have to believe you're one of the best writers in the world. To sit down every day at the typewriter filled with self-doubt is not a good idea.

  Jo Nesbo

  Believe, Typewriters, Self

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• Progress is often just a good idea away.

  John C. Maxwell

  Inspirational, Ideas, Progress

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• I realized ceativity is a renewable resource. You never run out of good ideas

  Biz Stone

  Running, Ideas, Renewable Resources

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• Guy Nearing told us it's a good idea when hunting mushrooms to have a pleasant goal, a waterfall for instance, and, having reached it, to return another way. When, however, we're obliged to go and come back by the same path, returning we notice mushrooms we hadn't noticed going out.

  John Cage

  Hunting, Mushrooms, Ideas

  John Cage (2012). “El libro de las setas”, p.56, Univ de Castilla La Mancha

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• In teaching, you do not want to COVER things, you want to UNCOVER them. The best way to get good ideas is to have lots of ideas.

  Linus Pauling

  Teaching, Ideas, Want

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• Sleeping with your phone in your bedroom is never a good idea, but it's even worse when you're bullied online because it's too tempting to stay up all night trying to "fix" the situation - which isn't possible anyway.

  Rosalind Wiseman

  Sleep, Night, Phones

  "School Bullying: What You Haven’t Heard" by Rosalind Wiseman, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 20, 2011.

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• Above all, do not talk yourself out of good ideas by trying to expound them at haphazard meetings.

  Jacques Barzun

  Ideas, Advice, Trying

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• God works in mysterious ways. Things may look good outwardly, but there may be evil contained inside. Let no one be deluded by pride that he himself has conceived good ideas or done good deeds. If everything were as it seemed, the Prophet would not have cried out with such illuminated and illuminating perspicacity, Show me things as they are! You make things appear beautiful when in reality they are ugly; You make things appear ugly when in reality they are beautiful. Show us therefore each thing as it is lest we fall into a snare and be ever errant.

  Rumi

  Beautiful, Fall, Pride

  Jelaluddin Rumi (2005). “The Rumi Collection”, p.69, Shambhala Publications

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• When certain bootleg companies started off and they would take maybe ten per cent of whatever they got and help fuel new bands, which I'm cool with, I think that's a good idea. Most of the record companies are not doing that.

  David Coverdale

  Thinking, Ideas, Band

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• If you start with a good idea, you can encapsulate it in a phrase and explain it. I like high-concept films. Everyone can get hold of it. I don't think there's any harm in that at all.

  Jane Campion

  Thinking, Ideas, Phrases

  "Anna Makes It a Family Business / Jane Campion's sister's debut film is `Loaded'" by Mick La Salle, www.sfgate.com. April 17, 1996.

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• Mostly what I'm focused on is finding people who are younger who haven't built companies before but have a good idea.

  Chris Hughes

  Ideas, People, Company

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