Great Idea Quotes - Page 4

• Not only is it a great concept and a great idea -- helping people -- it's good pizza too!

  Matt Lauer

  Ideas, People, Helping

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• Prayer gives us strength for great ideals, for keeping up our faith, charity, purity, generosity; prayer gives us strength to rise up from indifference and guilt, if we have had the misfortune to give in to temptation and weakness. Prayer gives us light by which to see and to judge from God's perspective and from eternity. That is why you must not give up on praying!

  Pope John Paul II

  Prayer, Giving Up, Light

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• The belief that you have a great idea is not worth cuckoo spit. Ideas are ten a penny while the ability to execute counts for a great deal more.

  Felix Dennis

  Ideas, Cuckoos, Pennies

  Felix Dennis (2011). “The Narrow Road: A Brief Guide to the Getting of Money”, p.19, Penguin

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• Every great idea exerts, on first appearing, a tyrannical influence: Hence, the advantages it brings are turned all too soon into disadvantages.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Ideas, Firsts, Influence

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• All of the great ideas, without action, become stale and useless. The key to turning dreams into reality is action. People who have great ideas are a dime a dozen. People who act on their dreams and ideas are the select few, but they are the ones who gain the wealth, wealth and wisdom that is available. Someone will act today. Let it be you.

  Jim Rohn

  Dream, Reality, Keys

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• The beauty of a great idea lies in the art of using it.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Art, Lying, Ideas

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• It may be easily shown, and is of no small significance, that the two great ideas of which the Anglo-Saxon is the exponent are having a fuller development in the United States than in Great Britain.

  Josiah Strong

  Ideas, Two, United States

  Josiah Strong (1963). “Our Country”

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• Having a great idea is important. But having a great team is also important.

  Steve Case

  Team, Ideas, Important

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• Great ideas can come from anywhere. There are no titles around an idea.

  Steve Stoute

  Ideas, Titles

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• A great idea solves multiple problems at the same time.

  Shigeru Miyamoto

  Ideas, Problem, Multiple

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• In the future, as in the past, the great ideas [of mathematics] must be simplifying ideas, the creator must always be one who clarifies, for himself, and for others, the most complicated issues of formulas and concepts.

  Andre Weil

  Past, Discovery, Ideas

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• Great ideas are fish in a stream. Your pen/pencil is a spear. If you don't spear them, they'll swim on by. Be ready.

  James Scott

  Ideas, Swim, Streams

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• I take it, then, Vijay, you are still a virgin?'Yes, and I find it extremely galling. When Gandhi was my age he had already been married three years.'No wonder Gandhi turned out to be a great man. When you get your love life nailed down that early, think of all the time it frees up to devote to Great Ideas.

  C.D. Payne

  Love, Men, Thinking

  C.D. Payne (2009). “Youth in Revolt: Now a major motion picture from Dimension Films starring Michael Cera”, p.177, Broadway Books

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• Ads which ran 30-50 years ago, even a hundred years ago, are often better than those you see today. You’ll get great ideas to use in your marketing.

  Ted Nicholas

  Years, Ideas, Marketing

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• It was a great idea from my teammate Jamal Crawford. He kept telling me to jump over Spud, so we decided to call him and he was more than willing to participate with me. I just thank God for him.

  Nate Robinson

  Ideas, Thank God, Teammate

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• No, everyone has great ideas, but what makes a difference, especially online, or just in life, is actually doing it; getting that first version out there.

  Alexis Ohanian

  Ideas, Differences, Making A Difference

  Source: www.fool.com

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• "Somehow over the years people have gotten the impression that Wal-Mart was...just this great idea that turned into an overnight success. But...it was an outgrowth of everything we'd been doing since [1945]...And like most overnight successes, it was about twenty years in the making."

  Sam Walton

  Years, Ideas, People

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• Any leader who asks the right questions of the right people has the potential to discover and develop great ideas.

  John C. Maxwell

  Ideas, People, Leader

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• If you're not ready to be in a relationship, going out with someone much younger than you is probably a great idea, because you both can have a decent experience and hopefully nobody will end up feeling cheated when it ends.

  Uma Thurman

  Ideas, Feelings, Going Out

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• This dapper little mouse that wore such cute clothes and said such interesting things, yeah. I thought it was a great idea to have a mouse like that in your family, so now I get to see what it was like.

  Geena Davis

  Cute, Clothes, Ideas

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• Most people who have kids are, "Hey, I want another me. I like me. I'm pretty cool, and I've got really great ideas, and the way I think is the right way to think. Let's put another one of me out there.

  David Cross

  Kids, Thinking, Ideas

  Interview with Josh Modell, www.avclub.com. September 2, 2009.

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• With The Reader, I'd just be shattered at the end of every day really. I wouldn't really want to talk. We kept saying, because we were in Berlin: "If we get back at a decent hour, let's go and have a glass of wine." We'd always think it would be a great idea, but then get to the end of the day and then go [acts drowsy and blabs]. It was very difficult for everybody.

  Kate Winslet

  Wine, Thinking, Ideas

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• This happens to me: I have this great idea and then I make the mistake of telling someone else.

  Scott Adams

  Mistake, Ideas, Happens

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• All good management is the expression of one great idea

  Robert Heller

  Business, Expression, Ideas

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• The great ideas of the West - rationalism, self-criticism, the disinterested search for truth, the separation of church and state, the rule of law, equality before the law, freedom of conscience, thought, and expression, human rights, and liberal democracy- quite an achievement, surely, for any civilization- - remain the best, and perhaps the only, means for all people, no matter of what race or creed, to reach their full potential and live in freedom.

  Ibn Warraq

  Mean, Race, Self

  Ibn Warraq (2010). “Virgins? What Virgins?: And Other Essays”

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