Good Ideas Quotes - Page 31

• Working in lock-step simply isn't a good idea. Never has been, never will be.

  Linus Torvalds

  Ideas, Locks, Steps

  Source: www.osnews.com

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• It's a good idea to have a break, to let your mind rest and so you can start to cultivate ideas.

  Rob Delaney

  Ideas, Mind, Break

  Source: www.comedy.co.uk

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• The only thing contrived is the production - you can over-produce to the point you kill a good idea, you can under-produce so that the song's amazing but you'll have folks at a radio station saying they won't play it, so there's this balance, and it has to be true.

  Ryan Tedder

  Song, Play, Ideas

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.co.uk

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• Selling through the internet seems to be a very good idea. There are a million areas that we can go to.

  Jeremy Clarkson

  Ideas, Internet, Selling

  Source: www.gq-magazine.co.uk

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• I do understand the free market, having my economics degree, and if someone on the right had some good ideas, I'm not so dogmatic that I wouldn't listen to them.

  Jay Roach

  Ideas, Degrees, Economics

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• When Veronica Mars was canceled, the following season of pilots for The CW had been announced, and one was Gossip Girl. I read it, and I knew I was sort of old to play any of the kids. I called Dawn Ostroff -- who was the head of The CW at the time -- and said, 'Hey, I did so much narration on Veronica Mars, can I narrate this show? And she said, 'Hey, that's a very good idea.' They knew I had a younger voice, they liked me and they knew I'd show up for work, and I guess that was all I really needed. It was so clear to me how sassy and catty she needed to be.

  Kristen Bell

  Girl, Kids, Sassy

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• That's why whenever I have a really good idea, I'm always worried about theft.

  Rich Fulcher

  Ideas, Worried, Theft

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Everything in New Orleans is a good idea.

  Bob Dylan

  New Orleans, Ideas

  Bob Dylan (2011). “Chronicles”, p.158, Simon and Schuster

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• If everyone thinks you have a good idea, you´re too late

  Paul Hawken

  Thinking, Ideas, Too Late

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• What does it mean for a painter to paint in the manner of So-and-So or to actually imitate someone else? What's wrong with that? On the contrary, it's a good idea. You should constantly try to paint like someone else. But the thing is, you can't! You would like to. You try. But it turns out to be a botch... And it's at the very moment you make a botch of it that you're yourself.

  Pablo Picasso

  Mean, Ideas, Trying

  Hélène Parmelin, Pablo Picasso (1965). “Picasso; the artist and his model: and other recent works”

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• Our world is endangered by the absence of good ideas

  Terence McKenna

  Our World, Ideas, Dmt

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• A good idea has self-expanding qualities. It stimulates those who see it to add to it.

  James Webb Young

  Self, Ideas, Quality

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• Sometimes in life it is a good idea to stop,sometimes it is a good idea to go on. The trick is to decide when to stop

  Richard Dawkins

  Ideas, Goes On, Sometimes

  Richard Dawkins (2004). “A Devil's Chaplain”, p.153, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Nowadays, with digital printing, it's so easy to make everything perfect, which is not always a good idea. Sometimes the mistakes are really what make a piece.

  Cindy Sherman

  Photography, Art, Mistake

  "It Began with Madame de Pompadour". Interview with Susan Sollin, art21.org. July 2013.

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• As a human rights issue, the effort to end violence against women becomes a government's obligation, not just a good idea.

  Charlotte Bunch

  Rights, Government, Ideas

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• It takes a very strong brain to resist the absolutes, the myths that the media and the politicians peddle - the idea that if you are too kind, where does it all end? That not to help someone is somehow a good idea.

  Peter Mullan

  Strong, Media, Ideas

  "If I went there I'd be found hanging from a bridge" by Fiachra Gibbons, www.theguardian.com. December 19, 2003.

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• Some people think it's psuedo-science, but it's called morphic resonance. It's when someone thinks of an idea, it makes it easier for someone else to think of the idea. That's why you should do crossword puzzles later in the day, because other people have thought about the answers. That's why you hear about people coming up with inventions almost at the same time, because someone else is thinking about it. That's why whenever I have a really good idea, I'm always worried about theft.

  Rich Fulcher

  Thinking, Ideas, People

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• It's never a good idea to ask a man on a tight-rope how he keeps his balance: a) he would probably fall off and b) he probably doesn't know what the muscles are called in any case.

  Terry Pratchett

  Fall, Men, Ideas

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• If for instance, in a board meeting, if you have an idea, it better be a good idea, or you're not going to get everybody's attention.

  Bob Weir

  Ideas, Boards, Attention

  Source: medium.com

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• If I got any good ideas out of that or I think they're good ideas, I'll be glad to contribute them but the system will probably overdo some other things.

  Warren Buffett

  Thinking, Ideas, Glad

  "Warren Buffett: I Haven't Seen As Much Economic Fear In My Adult Lifetime". Interview With Charlie Rose, www.cnbc.com. October 1, 2008.

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• I think the problem with John Bolton is he disagrees with President Trump's foreign policy. He would be closer to John McCain's foreign policy. John Bolton still believes the Iraq war was a good idea. He still believes that regime change is a good idea. He still believes that nation-building is a good idea.

  Rand Paul

  War, Believe, Thinking

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• For me, there's a bad year of getting started on something. You write bad stuff and it's awkward to throw it out, and you wait around to get some good ideas that maybe do come or don't come. Until eventually you get the voice and autonomy of the characters, the characters have personality, and they sort of pick up the weight and put it on their shoulders. That's when it becomes a little more fun.

  Whit Stillman

  Fun, Writing, Character

  Source: www.openlettersmonthly.com

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• In my view, the argument from parsimony is really no argument at all - it typically functions only to shut down more interesting discussion. If history is any guide, it's never a good idea to assume that a scientific problem is cornered.

  David Eagleman

  Ideas, Views, Interesting

  David Eagleman (2011). “Incognito: The Secret Lives of The Brain”, p.178, Canongate Books

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• There's no such thing as an actor giving positive criticism to a director. The minute you say 'Don't you think it would look nicer', that director's going to hate your guts. Particularly if it's a good idea.

  Peter Mullan

  Hate, Thinking, Ideas

  2003 In a question and answer session at the National Film Theatre, London, 4 Nov.

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• I've long ago learned that if an idea will stand on its own, it'll stand having the light shone on it. But if you shine light on it and it kind of withers, then it probably wasn't a very good idea.

  John Fogerty

  Light, Long Ago, Ideas

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