Bad Ideas Quotes - Page 9

• A writer's notebook is the best way in the world to immortalize bad ideas. My idea about a good idea is one that sticks around and sticks around and sticks around.

  Stephen King

  Notebook, Ideas, World

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• Good ideas come from bad ideas, but only if there are enough of them.

  Seth Godin

  Ideas, Motivational Business, Enough

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• If we were to tell you to deliberately spend ten minutes every day envisaging yourself being very ill, you'd quite rightly refuse to do it. Most people know that's a bad idea - yet those same people may spend time every day worrying about their health.

  Peter A. Cohen

  Health, Ideas, Worry

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• In America, you’re allowed to justify almost any kind of bigotry, sexism, or intolerance if you source it to God’s big book of bad ideas.

  Bill Maher

  Book, Ideas, America

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• If critics and competitors can't match your results, they will often denigrate the way you achieve them. Fast, intuitive types are called lazy. Dedicated burners of the midnight oil are called obsessed. And while it's obviously not a bad idea to hear and consider the opinions of others, you should be suspicious when these criticisms emerge right on the heels of success.

  Garry Kasparov

  Success, Oil, Ideas

  Garry Kasparov (2010). “How Life Imitates Chess: Making the Right Moves, from the Board to the Boardroom”, p.43, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• It was a bad idea, because I think that any government reorganization has to come in relatively small bites, or else you get indigestion.

  Warren Rudman

  Thinking, Government, Ideas

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• I've never seen bad drawing destroy a good idea. On the other hand, I've never seen a good drawing save a bad idea.

  Paul Conrad

  Hands, Ideas, Drawing

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• The Robertson family and bad ideas go together like biscuits and jam.

  Willie Robertson

  Ideas, Together, Jam

  Willie Robertson, Korie Robertson, Mark Schlabach (2014). “The Duck Commander Family: How Faith, Family, and Ducks Built a Dynasty”, p.177, Simon and Schuster

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• We cannot afford to be idle. To act on a bad idea is better than to not act at all. Because the worth of the idea never becomes apparent until you do it. Sometimes this idea can be the smallest thing in the world, a little flame that you hunch over and cup with your hand, and pray will not be extinguished by all the storm that howls about it. If you could hold onto that flame, great things could construct around it, that are massive and powerful and world changing, all held up by the tiniest of ideas.

  Nick Cave

  Powerful, Flames, Hands

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• All of our days are numbered. We cannot afford to be idle. To act on a bad idea is better than to not act at all, because the worth of an idea never becomes apparent until you do it.

  Nick Cave

  Ideas, Idle

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• I tend to not only read reviews, but also every little stupid thing online. It's a very bad idea, and there's a lot of angry people in the world. And it's weird to absorb all that weirdness.

  Charlie Kaufman

  Stupid, Ideas, People

  "It's just a big mess inside my head". Interview with Laura Barton, www.theguardian.com. April 17, 2009.

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