Great Idea Quotes - Page 3

• I don't think it's a mistake to put every great idea into the first movie, because I've always said there won't be a second movie if you go 'we'll hold back these ideas for another one.

  Kevin Feige

  Mistake, Thinking, Ideas

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• Great ideas are not charitable.

  Henry de Montherlant

  Ideas, Charitable

  Henry de Montherlant (1951). “The Master of Santiago: And Four Other Plays”, New York : A. A. Knopf

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• I used to think Cape Wind was a great idea. That was when Ted Kennedy was alive and railing about how he might spill his Chivas if he had to keep maneuvering the Mya around all those noisy seagull-murdering wind turbines. Anything Ted Kennedy was against, I was for.

  Howie Carr

  Thinking, Wind, Ideas

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• There is this great idea about the logic of a politician, along the lines of: "Something must be done, this is something, therefore we must do it.

  Antony Jay

  Ideas, Done, Lines

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• One does not set out with the idea that I've just had a great idea and now I'm going to go and carry it out. Almost all art that's made like that doesn't go anywhere.

  Anish Kapoor

  Art, Ideas, Doe

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• I think the institution of marriage is a great idea, but for me it's just an idea.

  Lara Flynn Boyle

  Thinking, Ideas, Institutions

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• You need to feel good about your life. Winning is a great idea, but you can get stuck in it too. It's just another way of looking at life, an idea. You need to renew yourself and your spirit.

  Frederick Lenz

  Inspirational, Buddhism, Winning

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• When you're an established name, you know that a children's book will have a pretty good chance of getting picked up. Like Madonna. It's not that I had this great idea. Actually, in my case, it was a great idea.

  Jo Nesbo

  Children, Book, Names

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• You need a great idea, but then you've got to carry it through. If you get it right, you're going to be a critical success. But not everyone who works hard gets it right, or has the success they deserve: there's an element of luck.

  Ian Rankin

  Hard Work, Ideas, Luck

  "Ian Rankin, author - portrait of the artist". Interview with Laura Barnett, www.theguardian.com. December 11, 2012.

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• How could poetry and literature have arisen from something as plebian as the cuneiform equivalent of grocery-store bar codes? I prefer the version in which Prometheus brought writing to man from the gods. But then I remind myself that...we should not be too fastidious about where great ideas come from. Ultimately, they all come from a wrinkled organ that at its healthiest has the color and consistency of toothpaste, and in the end only withers and dies.

  Alice Weaver Flaherty

  Writing, Men, Color

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• My parents' long and happy marriage was a great ideal to live up to, but a tough one.

  Olivia Williams

  Long, Parent, Happy Marriage

  "Olivia Williams: My family values" by Maureen Patton, www.theguardian.com. June 22, 2012.

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• A great idea should always be left to steep like loose tea leaves in a teapot for a while to make sure that the tea will be strong enough and that the idea truly is a great one.

  Phoebe Stone

  Strong, Ideas, Tea Leaves

  Phoebe Stone (2012). “The Romeo and Juliet Code”, p.90, Scholastic Inc.

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• I sort of love reading the scripts and going, 'Oh wow, what a great idea. I never would have thought of that.

  Edie Falco

  Reading, Ideas, Wow

  "‘Nurse Jackie’ Star Edie Falco On New Season, Sobriety". Interview With Nicki Gostin, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 6, 2012.

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• Being a writer in Hollywood is like going to Hitler's Eagle Nest with a great idea for a bar mitzvah.

  David Mamet

  Eagles, Ideas, Hollywood

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• Building a business is not rocket science, it's about having a great idea and seeing it through with integrity.

  Richard Branson

  Inspirational, Business, Integrity

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• The Great Idea in advertising is far more than the sum of the recognition scores, the ratings and all the other superficial indicators of its success; it is in the realm of myth, to which measurements cannot apply.

  Leo Bogart

  Ideas, Measurement, Recognition

  LEO BOGART (1967). “STRATEGY IN ADVERTISING”

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• Every day I watched how a bare metal frame, rolling down the line would come off the other end, a spanking brand new car. What a great idea! Maybe, I could do the same thing with my music. Create a place where a kid off the street could walk in one door, an unknown, go through a process, and come out another door, a star.

  Berry Gordy

  Stars, Kids, Doors

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• To be oneself is a rare thing, and a great one.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Great Friend, Oneself, Rare Things

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• Our world, so we see and hear on all sides, is drowning in materialism, commercialism, consumerism. But the problem is not really there. What we ordinarily speak of as materialism is a result, not a cause. The root of materialism is a poverty of ideas about the inner and the outer world. Less and less does our contemporary culture have, or even seek, commerce with great ideas, and it is that lack that is weakening the human spirit. This is the essence of materialism. Materialism is a disease of the mind starved for ideas.

  Jacob Needleman

  Our World, Essence, Ideas

  Jacob Needleman (2003). “The American Soul: Rediscovering the Wisdom of the Founders”, p.16, Penguin

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• There's no shortage of great ideas. There's a shortage of execution.

  Seth Godin

  Ideas, Execution, Shortage

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• It is not short of amazing, the power of a great idea to weld men together. There was in it a peculiar, intense, vital spirit if you will, that I have never felt before in any strike.

  Ray Stannard Baker

  Men, Ideas, Together

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• Ridicule has historically proven itself a rickety fence for great ideas.

  Vanna Bonta

  Ideas, Growth, Fence

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• We are the most focused company that I know of or have read of or have any knowledge of. We say no to good ideas every day. We say no to great ideas in order to keep the amount of things we focus on very small in number so that we can put enormous energy behind the ones we do choose.....It's not just saying yes to the right products, it's saying no to many products that are good ideas, but just not nearly as good as the other ones.

  Tim Cook

  Order, Ideas, Numbers

  "Apple COO Tim Cook: 'We Have No Interest In Being In The TV Market'" by Dan Frommer, www.businessinsider.com. February 23, 2010.

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• "No one is doing what we're doing." This is a bummer of a lie because there are only two logical conclusions. First, no one else is doing this because there is no market for it. Second, the entrepreneur is so clueless that he can't even use Google to figure out he has competition. Suffice it to say that the lack of a market and cluelessness is not conducive to securing an investment. As a rule of thumb, if you have a good idea, five companies are going the same thing. If you have a great idea, fifteen companies are doing the same thing.

  Guy Kawasaki

  Lying, Clueless, Ideas

  Guy Kawasaki (2008). “Reality Check: The Irreverent Guide to Outsmarting, Outmanaging, and Outmarketing Your Competition”, p.48, Penguin

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• This is not to say there are not Chicagoans. But I would suggest that they are a nomadic people, whose lost home exists only in their minds, and in the glowing crystal memory cells they all carry in the palms of their hands: a great idea of a second city, lit with life and love, reasonable drink prices at cool bars, and, of course, blocks and blocks of bright and devastating fire.

  John Hodgman

  Memories, Life And Love, Block

  John Hodgman (2012). “The Areas of My Expertise”, p.140, Penguin

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