Good ideas Quotes

Twice I let people talk me out of good ideas.

— Natalie Massenet

You can talk good ideas out of existence.

— Vikram Seth

“Your dreams are the wealth of your mind.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

I think it would be a good idea.

— Mahatma Gandhi

I came up with a good idea…see-through skin.

— Karl Pilkington

Progress is often just a good idea away.

— John C. Maxwell

Never hesitate to steal a good idea.

— Al Neuharth

Good ideas are often murdered by better ones.

— Roddy Doyle

If it's a good idea, go ahead and do it. It is much easier to apologise than it is to get permission.

— Grace Hopper

Statistics are like miniskirts: They give you good ideas but hide the important things.

— Ebbe Skovdahl

Maturity is doing what you think is best, even when your mother thinks it's a good idea.

— Paul Watzlawick

A good idea is like a lighted match, easily blown out by the cold winds of rigid management.

— Richard Kinder

“I have never had so many good ideas day after day as when I worked in the garden.”

— John Erskine

I believe that we have better ideas. But I also believe that good ideas don't matter if people don't hear them.

— Barack Obama

It was inevitable the Titanic was going to set sail, but that doesn't mean it was a good idea to be on…

— William Hague

When good ideas get put to bad use, it is the fault of the user, not the idea.

— Walter Darby Bannard

“I think this is something we all can relate to: experiences that may start out as good ideas until suddenly, they become…

— Tania Aebi

People who snack sometimes sometimes eat kind of thoughtlessly and end up eating a lot more. But in principle, it's a really…

— Michael Pollan

Government likes committees... a lot. Committees kill all the really good ideas and generally all the really bad ideas. They produce middle-ground…

— Betsy DeVos

The best ideas often look terrible at the beginning the truly good ideas, don't seem like they're worth stealing.

— Sam Altman

“Good ideas rarely seem like good ideas at their inception, that's what stops the majority of people from having them”

— Drew Gummerson

When something has to be done, do it! In France we are full of good ideas, but we rarely put them into…

— Bernard Arnault

It is a good idea to obey all the rules when you're young just so you'll have the strength to break them…

— Mark Twain

Einstein was a great advocate of the notion that good ideas look absurd at the beginning. Camus expressed a similar view.

— Michael Leunig

On this day, when we're celebrating our constitutional heritage, I urge you to be faithful to that heritage - to impose on…

— Antonin Scalia

I think if you've got a good idea it will stand out in one of the different mediums. For example, something might…

— Danny Wallace

“The progress of the last 500 years shows us precisely what the good ideas are: social harmony, human rights, the aspiration of…

— Jeffrey Tucker

We also have this reflex of using specialists for everything, instead of having the person who is there every day with them,…

— Philippe Falardeau

When communism failed, it wasn't a good idea that had gone wrong, it was a bad idea that had been sustained with…

— Martin Amis

How does humility manifest itself in leadership and in life? A humble person is more concerned about what is right than about…

— Stephen Covey

After [Dan Fried] was initially hired into the Foreign Service in 1977, five subsequent presidents of both parties thought it would be…

— Rachel Maddow

Progress is unstoppable. It is a drumbeat to which we must all march. Technology helps and good ideas spread – these are…

— Yann Martel

“Once, I was having lunch with the president of another movie studio, who told me that his biggest problem was not finding…

— Ed Catmull

"No one is doing what we're doing." This is a bummer of a lie because there are only two logical conclusions. First,…

— Guy Kawasaki

“The cord that tethers ability to success is both loose and elastic. It is easy to see fine qualities in successful books…

— Leonard Mlodinow

When Veronica Mars was canceled, the following season of pilots for The CW had been announced, and one was Gossip Girl. I…

— Kristen Bell

“Leaves of Ash (Divine Violence, Sonnet) You know why the West makes such a song and dance about nonviolence, because when your…

— Abhijit Naskar

We believe that almost all really good investment records will involve relatively little diversification. The basic idea that it was hard to…

— Charlie Munger

Most Americans who made it past the fourth grade have a pretty good idea who Thurgood Marshall, Rosa Parks, and Martin Luther…

— Louis Menand

“That may be true, but it’s not the point. Designers learn to have lots of wild ideas because they know that the…

— Bill Burnett