Good ideas Quotes · Page 7

Good ideas need good strategy to realize their potential.

— Reid Hoffman

When the customer is wrong it is not a good idea to tell them.

— Garrison Wynn

The more good ideas you collect, the more you can choose from to be influenced by.

— Austin Kleon

I know how to take good ideas and turn them into sensible law at great odds.

— Elizabeth Emken

A good idea turns every cog in your mind, making you scared of bed in case the whole machine grinds to a…

— Trevor Baylis

Good ideas, like good pickles, are crisp, enduring, and devilishly hard to make.

— Rushworth Kidder

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

It is not a good idea to continually repeat a mantra during meditation. Repeating a mantra throughout your mediation causes you to…

— Frederick Lenz

Individuals who are really inspirational are always what changes history. Gandhi had a bunch of good ideas, and he led a non…

— Daniel Pinchbeck

Once a few Facebook employees put together a promising idea and start a company, that's very exciting to people. I happen to…

— Dustin Moskovitz

You know who's also joining the Wall Street protesters? Kanye West. That's a real good idea -- a guy with diamonds in…

— David Letterman

You've got a fairly good idea as to what the questions are going to be. But how to record the best answer…

— Nick Faldo

Good ideas will always get funded, so that's not going to be a problem. But you will see that it will be…

— Jeff Bezos

Having established that good ideas do indeed come in from the cold, start on the fringes and become mainstream, can we make…

— Nigel Farage

Think for thyself one good idea, but known to be thine own, is better than a thousand gleaned from fields by others…

— Alexander Wilson

You force people to stop asking questions, and before you know it they have auctioned off the question mark, or sold it…

— Barbara Kingsolver

Well I've made no secret of my life long love of MAD Magazine, it's probably my first and greatest influence in terms…

— Al Yankovic

I learned something from a string of failed relationships. You don't see a pattern quickly. You see it over time. I learned…

— James McAvoy

I worry that there are people who are put in positions of authority because they're good talkers, but they don't have good…

— Susan Cain

I often try to think about, What sounds like a bad idea, but if you find the right plan of attack, it's…

— Edward Boyden

I don't think that mass drug taking is a good idea. But I think that we must have a deputized minority, a…

— Terence McKenna

I like to do every operation the same way on each fly. In the course of tying a batch of flies, I…

— John Gierach

Life is sacred? Who said so, God? Hey, if you read history you'll realize that God is one of the leading causes…

— George Carlin

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

I saw Nader shortly before the election and - I voted him the time before, because I liked the sort of long-term…

— Aaron McGruder

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

For two months after Christmas vacation we limped around campus with muscles too tigh and sore to walk properly, yet we had…

— Stefan Kieszling

“…it is the public sector I find more interesting, because governments and other non-market institutions have long suffered from the innovation malaise…

— Steven Johnson

Truthfully, in the beginning [of MacGyver] this could have gone either way, and as it turned out there was a version that…

— Lucas Till

Sometimes compromise is important. Sometimes it's better to give in to someone else's wishes in order to have fun as a group…

— Melody Beattie

I have discovered there are only a handful of good ideas in the whole world. You already know them. You have heard…

— Larry Winget

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

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

— Walter Darby Bannard

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

Marry somebody you love and who thinks you being a writer's a good idea.

— Richard Ford

Sometimes when I'm directing, the stage manager will have a good idea and that's okay with me.

— Adam Rapp