Good Ideas Quotes - Page 32

• All good ideas are terrible...
  Until people realize they are obvious. If you're not willing to live through the terrible stage, you'll never get to the obvious part.

  Seth Godin

  Ideas, People, Realizing

  FaceBook post by Seth Godin from Aug 21, 2013

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• Perhaps it is even a good idea to stir up a rivalry between conceptual and imaginative activity. In any case, one will encounter nothing but disappointments if he intends to make them cooperate. The image can not provide matter for a concept. By giving stability to the image, the concept would stifle its life.

  Gaston Bachelard

  Disappointment, Ideas, Giving

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• It is never a good idea to not be comfortable.

  Garance Dore

  Ideas, Comfortable

  Source: brightestyoungthings.com

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• I haven't encouraged [Julia Marie Pacino] or discouraged her. I let her go her own way. I did say to her that I thought that she had a real gift, and it's a good idea to know that. It's always good to go with your gift.

  Al Pacino

  Real, Ideas, Way

  Source: www.rawkblog.net

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• Marry somebody you love and who thinks you being a writer's a good idea.

  Richard Ford

  Thinking, Ideas

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• It's not a good idea to take a forecast from someone wearing a tie. If possible, tease people who take themselves and their knowledge too seriously.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Knowledge, Ideas, Ties

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• Generally it's not a good idea to wear Banana Republic - type khaki journalist clothes in a war zone. You might look too much like something that's supposed to be shot, such as a journalist.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Funny, War, Ideas

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “All the Trouble in the World: The Lighter Side of Overpopulation, Famine, Ecological Disaster, Ethnic Hatred, Plague, and Poverty”, p.249, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• The greatest thing on earth is a good idea!

  Earl Nightingale

  Ideas, Earth

  Earl Nightingale (1969). “This is Earl Nightingale”, Doubleday Books

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• I was surprised that my wife thought it was a good idea, then again with my agent, another woman, then my editor, another woman - in spite of the fact that all three of them reacted positively I still have this fear.

  Michael Chabon

  Editors, Ideas, Wife

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• When the customer is wrong it is not a good idea to tell them.

  Garrison Wynn

  Ideas, Customers

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• Entrepreneurs always pitch their idea as 'the X of Y,' so this is going to be 'the Microsoft of food.' And yet disruptive innovations usually don't have that character. Most of the time, if something seems like a good idea, it probably isn't.

  Eric Ries

  Business, Character, Ideas

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• You can't make everybody love you. It's an exercise in futility, and it's probably not even a good idea to try.

  Robert Crumb

  Love You, Exercise, Ideas

  "R. Crumb Speaks". Interview with Robert Hughes, content.time.com. April 29, 2005.

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