Good ideas Quotes · Page 6

I've come to realize that most good ideas are precisely the ones you can't describe.

— Mark Haddon

That's why whenever I have a really good idea, I'm always worried about theft.

— Rich Fulcher

A good idea is worthless without impeccable execution and a commitment to iterate.

— Zach Klein

There are plenty of good ideas, if only they can be backed with the power of action.

— Winston Churchill

The way to get good ideas is to get lots of ideas and throw the bad ones away.

— Linus Pauling

At a well-run company, good ideas are embraced no matter where they come from.

— Belinda Johnson

All the really good ideas I ever had came to me while I was milking a cow.

— Grant Wood

Whenever I hear anything described as a heartless assault on our children, I tend to think it’s a good idea.

— William Kristol

[David Harker asked: Dr Pauling, how do you have so many good ideas?] Well David, I have a lot of ideas and…

— Linus Pauling

You can delegate a lot of things, but you can't delegate PRAYER. I'd rather have one GOD idea than a thousand GOOD…

— Mark Batterson

If you have a regulation that's going to save hundreds of thousands of lives annually and not cost very much, that sounds…

— Cass Sunstein

I'm always nervous before starting a record because I can never sleep. I'm like, 'I have no good ideas, everyone is gonna…

— Mark Ronson

The trick to having good ideas is not to sit around in glorious isolation and try to think big thoughts. The trick…

— Steven Johnson

No one is more himself than the moment when he's laughing at a joke. It's at those moments that people's defenses go…

— George Carlin

Zee said, grumpily, “Liebling, this is not a good idea.” “Zee,” I told him, “I am completely out of good ideas and…

— Patricia Briggs

Feminists have not tried to "destroy the family". We just thought the family was such a good idea that men might want…

— Barbara Ehrenreich

“Most of the present acute troubles of the world arise out of taking on new ideas without first carefully investigating to discover…

— Henry Ford

One can lose a good idea by not writing it down, yet by losing it one can have it: it nourishes other…

— John Ashbery

I would acknowledge that [Paul] Ryan has some really good ideas about things, and I think they'll get together, like taxes. Larry…

— Jeff Sessions

We originally actually wrote Franco's part [in the Pineapple Express] for me and the part I ultimately played just for someone else…

— Seth Rogen

Charlie and I decided long ago that in an investment lifetime, it's too hard to make hundreds of smart decisions. That judgment…

— Warren Buffett

I photograph continuously, often without a good idea or strong feelings. During this time the photos are nearly all poor, but I…

— Harry Callahan

Treat your date with the respect and purity you hope your future spouse will have. Keep in mind how you will expect…

— Jason Evert

We know how to build cross-disciplinary teams that are needed to take good ideas and make them great businesses. We're good at…

— Katie McGinty

If you hear a good idea, capture it; write it down. Don't trust your memory. Then on a cold wintry evening, go…

— Jim Rohn

I like good ideas. I don't want just do something for it's own sake to bother people, but if I can bother…

— George Carlin

Well I started out on guitar, so it is still the mainstay of my music. But I have recently been working very…

— Livingston Taylor

I don't think that split government is a good idea. Conventional wisdom in Washington for years has been that divided government is…

— Scott Walker

“I do not believe that we can put into anyone ideas which are not in him already. As a rule there is…

— Albert Schweitzer

“She was surprised because she was Emily, and she did not share Jonathan's frank assessment of coworkers as losers, whiners, bozos, sharks.…

— Allegra Goodman

There is this thing called the university, and everybody goes there now. And there are these things called teachers who make students…

— Kurt Vonnegut

I won the argument against the knife that night, but barely. I had some other good ideas around that time--about how jumping…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

“Tell the Truth. Make it Special. Life’s a Beach. And then you Drown. Good Ideas cost no more than Bad Ones.”

— Justin Allison

Solitude is only a good idea if you have the right people along to share it.

— Jack McDevitt

As a scientist and successful businessman, I understand that no one has a monopoly on good ideas.

— Bill Foster

You have to go through a lot of crap to get to a good idea.

— David Guerrero

Really good ideas are always good beyond what you anticipated originally.

— David Gelernter

If it's a good idea, do it today. Not tomorrow. A good idea rarely gets better over time.

— Larry Winget

You don't have a really good idea until you combine two little ideas.

— Twyla Tharp

It seems to me to be important to distinguish a good idea from poor implementations of it

— Ron Jeffries