Great Idea Quotes - Page 12

• All great ideas start as weird ideas. What now seems obvious, early on, is not obvious to anybody.

  Steve Case

  Ideas, Obvious, Seems

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• I got an idea: people like news why don't we write the news down on a piece of paper, and we'll gas them up and drive them to everyone's house. I mean, if you were going to say that now, it doesn't sound like a great idea, because there are other ways you can distribute the news.

  Biz Stone

  Writing, Mean, Ideas

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Picasso had a saying - 'good artists copy, great artists steal' - and we have always been shameless about stealing great ideas.

  Walter Isaacson

  Inspirational, Artist, Small Jobs

  Walter Isaacson (2011). “Walter Isaacson Great Innovators e-book boxed set: Steve Jobs, Benjamin Franklin, Einstein”, p.147, Simon and Schuster

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• If a child is going to grow into a truly special adult–someone who thinks, considers other points of view, has an open mind, and possesses the ability to discuss great ideas with other people–a love of reading is an essential foundation.

  Rafe Esquith

  Children, Reading, Thinking

  Rafe Esquith (2007). “Teach Like Your Hair's on Fire: The Methods and Madness Inside Room 56”, p.33, Penguin

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• Is it that they think it a duty to be continually talking,' pursued she: 'and so never pause to think, but fill up with aimless trifles and vain repetitions when subjects of real interest fail to present themselves? - or do they really take a pleasure in such discourse?' 'Very likely they do,' said I; 'their shallow minds can hold no great ideas, and their light heads are carried away by trivialities that would not move a better-furnished skull; - and their only alternative to such discourse is to plunge over head and ears into the slough of scandal - which is their chief delight.

  Anne Bronte

  Real, Moving, Thinking

  Anne Bronte (2016). “The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (Diversion Illustrated Classics)”, p.98, Diversion Books

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• « Are you hungry, baby?” Curran asked. “Starving.” “I think we should go to dinner.” “Great idea.” “What are you going to wear?” “My badass face.” “Good choice,” he said. »

  Ilona Andrews

  Baby, Badass, Thinking

  Ilona Andrews (2013). “Magic Rises: A Kate Daniels Novel”, p.165, Penguin

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• A genius is a man who has two great ideas.

  Jacob Bronowski

  Men, Ideas, Two

  Jacob Bronowski (1976). “The ascent of man”

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• One doesn't begin to be a Christian because of an ethical decision or a great idea, but rather because of an encounter with an event, with a Person, who gives new horizons to life, and with that, a decisive orientation.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Christian, Ideas, Giving

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• When you have that first flash of what you think is going to be a great idea-from the mouth, from the hands-that's an amazing feeling. I don't think anything's quite as good as that.

  Daryl Hall

  Writing, Thinking, Hands

  "HALL AND OATES: Soul Survivors". Interview with Ken Sharp, americansongwriter.com. January 23, 2009.

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• Homosexuality is regarded as shameful by barbarians and by those who live under despotic governments just as philosophy is regarded as shameful by them, because it is apparently not in the interest of such rulers to have great ideas engendered in their subjects, or powerful friendships or passionate love - all of which homosexuality is particularly apt to produce.

  Plato

  Powerful, Philosophy, Gay

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• We believe that there is no greater power in the world than the force of a great idea. We believe that people are the lifeblood of every organization. We believe that the best companies are true meritocracies, where people rise and fall through their own contributions, not through game playing or politics. We believe that work isn't simply a paycheck; it is the ultimate expression of a fully realized self. We believe that a company's obligations extend far beyond its bottom line and its shareholders - to a wider constituency that includes employees, customers, suppliers, and the community.

  John A. Byrne

  Business, Believe, Fall

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• In our office, we have a whiteboard with all of our ideas and things we want to write on it - great ideas we have that we haven't had the time to get around to yet.

  Erich Hoeber

  Writing, Ideas, Office

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• Rolling all of your debts into a single loan is a good idea - in theory. In fact, it can be a great idea.

  Jean Chatzky

  Ideas, Rolling, Debt

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• I don't claim to be an expert on this, but I think ADD and creativity may be the same thing; it's just that they can't sell you drugs for being creative. Seriously, the world needs people whose minds constantly wander, because that's how great ideas are stumbled upon.

  Hal Elrod

  Gratitude, Creativity, Thinking

  FaceBook post by Hal Elrod from Jun 04, 2011

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• I've known people who had fantastic ideas, but who couldn't get the idea off the ground because they approached everything weakly. They thought that their ideas would somehow take off by themselves, or that just coming up with an idea was enough. Let me tell you something - it's not enough. It will never be enough. You have to put the idea into action. If you don't have the motivation and the enthusiasm, your great idea will simply sit on top of your desk or inside your head and go nowhere.

  Donald Trump

  Money, Motivation, Ideas

  Donald J. Trump (2007). “Trump 101: The Way to Success”, p.2, John Wiley & Sons

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• I think having a great idea is vastly overrated. I know it sounds kind of crazy and counterintuitive. I don't think it matters what the idea is, almost. You need great execution.

  Felix Dennis

  Crazy, Thinking, Ideas

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• Like many great ideas in biology, the idea implicating infectious causation in chronic diseases, though simple, has far-reaching implications. It is so simple and so significant, that one would think it would have been recognized by many and would be the starting point for any discussion on the causes of disease. Not yet.

  Paul W. Ewald

  Simple, Thinking, Ideas

  Paul W. Ewald (2000). “Plague Time: How Stealth Infections Cause Cancers, Heart Disease, and Other Deadly Ailments”, p.56, Simon and Schuster

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• Nothing, believe me, nothing is more satisfying to me personally than getting a great idea and then beatin' it to death.

  David Letterman

  Believe, Ideas, Personality Types

  "Late Night with David Letterman", March 5, 1993.

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• Every great idea is on the verge of being stupid.

  Michel Gondry

  Fun, Stupid, Ideas

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• Great ideas come from everywhere if you just listen and look for them. You never know who's going to have a great idea.

  Sam Walton

  Motivational, Greatness, Ideas

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• There's usually some process by which a potentially great idea gets prostituted into something lacklustre, or by which the wrong idea gets put forward.

  Clayton Christensen

  Business, Ideas, Process

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• To get a great idea, come up with lots of them.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Creativity, Play, Ideas

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• Here's the truth about telling stories with your life. It's going to sound like a great idea, and you're going to get excited about it, and then when it comes time to do the work, you're not going to want to do it. It's like that with writing books, and it's like that with life. People love to have lived a great story, but few people like the work it takes to make it happen. But joy costs pain.

  Donald Miller

  Pain, Book, Writing

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• I'm always looking for directors who are very strong, they have great ideas, but on the other hand, that need help. It means they rely mostly on my eyes.

  Vilmos Zsigmond

  Strong, Mean, Eye

  Source: www.chud.com

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• The close relationships we form between researchers and product groups have already shown we can move the great ideas as they come along, without a schedule, into the products.

  Bill Gates

  Moving, Ideas, Groups

  Bill Gates, Janet Lowe (1998). “Bill Gates Speaks: Insight from the World's Greatest Entrepreneur”, p.84, John Wiley & Sons

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