I have one very basic rule when it comes to "good ideas". A good idea is not an idea that solves a… — Linus Torvalds Copy Share Image
I think that to be a good artist, you have to have ideas as well as manual skills. It's a blend of… — Michael C. McMillen Copy Share Image
Back in the day, a lot of our instructors in nonfiction were actually fiction scholars. So they would bring in stories as… — John D'Agata Copy Share Image
The people who steal cars, there's somebody there who is the master, who orders the cars, or just takes a car when… — Thabo Mbeki Copy Share Image
There's a screen direction in the script for the pilot where it says, 'Jim Harper, mid-20s, enters,' and it said something to… — John Gallagher, Jr Copy Share Image
At school, when kids are being encouraged to get the one right answer and fill in that bubble, people can do things… — Roberta Michnick Golinkoff Copy Share Image
I've got a solid grounding in history, sociology, anthropology, philosophy, etc etc. That means I actually have a good idea about how… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
For me, there's a bad year of getting started on something. You write bad stuff and it's awkward to throw it out,… — Whit Stillman Copy Share Image
Science usually operates in sort of three modes, things that are well established, we know what we're talking about, more highly confident.… — Stephen Schneider Copy Share Image
Same reason why young women on juries are not a good idea, they don't get it. They're not in that same life… — Kimberly Guilfoyle Copy Share Image
“If librarianship is the connecting of people to ideas – and I believe that is the truest definition of what we do… — Graceanne A. Decandido Copy Share Image
The more we can encourage entrepreneurship, particularly for young people, the more they have hope. That requires some reforms in these [African]… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
So we have a choice to make. We can once again let Washington's bad habits stand in the way of progress. Or… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
People think focus means saying yes to the thing you've got to focus on. But that's not what it means at all.… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
Sometimes I have really good ideas, but it is always Paul's language that makes them work. Without him I'd be more clinical,… — Harry Enfield Copy Share Image
I respect Senator McCain a great deal and believe he has many - many good ideas and suggestions that I would certainly… — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
I always say the first sign of a good idea is a lot of people not believing in it. I can tell… — Steve Stoute Copy Share Image
Simon looked from one of them to the other, and shook his head. “ When did you two get so buddy-buddy? Last… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
“In many ways Martinsson was the opposite of Svedberg: he was coming up to 30, born in Trollhättan, and had set his… — Henning Mankell Copy Share Image
I've been very careful about what I say yes to and what I say no to. And I think seriously always about...… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
I think the best songs that come to me are ones that you sort of listen for. The ones - when I… — Nick Lowe Copy Share Image
Perhaps it would be a good idea, fantastic as it sounds, to muffle every telephone, halt every motor, and stop all activity… — James Adams Copy Share Image
I sort of recognize it, as opposed to shaping it. Oh, that's a good idea, that's a good line. I wonder where… — Paul Simon Copy Share Image
There are as many violent women as men, but there's a lot of money in hating men, particularly in the United States… — Erin Pizzey Copy Share Image
I think the Russian government is right to be concerned with propaganda on teenagers who are at the age of struggling through… — Bryan Fischer Copy Share Image
“You're a storyteller, Alice Edevane," Ben had told her late one afternoon, as the river tripped coolly by and the pigeons came… — Kate Morton Copy Share Image
I went through a period when I was about 19 where I'd go tanning with my boyfriend in tanning beds. Yes, this… — Brittany Snow Copy Share Image
Never put a lid on God. You can give God a thimble and ask for a quart. It won't work. Your plans,… — Mother Angelica Copy Share Image
“They taught me that being of service, an ally to the lonely and suffering, a big-girl helper to underdogs, was my best… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
It as if you took a lot of very good food and some dog excrement and blended it all up so that… — Douglas Hofstadter Copy Share Image
On humanitarian intervention in general, I guess my view is not unlike the view that was attributed to Gandhi, accurately or not,… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Keep things informal. Talking is the natural way to do business. Writing is great for keeping records and putting down details, but… — T. Boone Pickens Copy Share Image
I love leaving the door open to good ideas. I love the collaborative swirl. I get charged by problem-solving, usually under some… — Ron Howard Copy Share Image
You mean am I for it or against it? You think this is a key question I'm going to be asked on… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
On my walks, that's when the good ideas come. The kind of hard, gritty work is when you're sitting at the computer… — Maria Semple Copy Share Image
I really believe in empty spaces, although, as an artist, I make a lot of junk. Empty space is never-wasted space. Wasted… — Andy Warhol Copy Share Image
I have a really good idea of who my readers are and always write with a sensitivity to my audience. I use… — Ellen Hopkins Copy Share Image
As a leader, these attributes - confidence, perseverance, work ethic and good sense - are all things I look for in people.… — Heather Bresch Copy Share Image
When starting a new business, people get blinders on. They have an idea, they stick to the idea, but they don't test… — JJ Ramberg Copy Share Image
Law Number XXXVI: The thickness of the proposal required to win a multimillion dollar contract is about one millimeter per million dollars.… — Norman Ralph Augustine Copy Share Image
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