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• From my training I can get a good idea of what I'm capable of.

  Paula Radcliffe

  Ideas, Training, I Can

  "Golden girl Paula Radcliffe lowers her sights to the Olympic bronze". Interview with Andy Bull, www.theguardian.com. April 14, 2012.

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• I endorse a lot of people - sometimes people say I endorse too many books. And my response has always been the same: If I can get one case study that can give me one good idea that I can implement for $25, or for these days one-third of that on Kindle, I've gotten a very good deal.

  Tom Peters

  Book, Ideas, People

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

  Linus Pauling

  Ideas, Creative, Innovation

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• I was at La Fenice opera house back in 1991 with friends, and we started talking about a conductor whom none of us liked. Somehow there was an escalation, and we started talking about how to kill him, where to kill him. This struck me as a good idea for a book.

  Donna Leon

  Book, Talking, Ideas

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• I've heard people say that God is the gift of desperation, and there's a lot to be said for having really reached a bottom where you've run out of any more good ideas or plans for everybody else's behavior; or how to save and fix and rescue; or just get out of a huge mess, possibly of your own creation.

  Anne Lamott

  Running, Ideas, People

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• The smart thing in the art world is to have one good idea and never have another.

  Brian Eno

  Art, Ideas, World

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• If you have one good idea, people will lend you twenty.

  Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

  Ideas, People, Twenties

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• If you didn't have patents, no one would bother to spend money on research and development. But with patents, if someone has a good idea and a competitor can't copy it, then that competitor will have to think of their own way of doing it. So then, instead of just one innovator, you have two or three people trying to do something in a new way.

  James Dyson

  Thinking, Research And Development, Ideas

  "How James Dyson Makes the Ordinary Extraordinary". Interview with Shoshana Berger, www.wired.com. November 19, 2012.

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• I guess the real reason that my wife and I had children is the same reason that Napoleon had for invading Russia: it seemed like a good idea at the time.

  Bill Cosby

  Baby, Children, Real

  FaceBook post by Bill Cosby from Nov 09, 2009

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• Sex education may be a good idea in the schools, but I don't believe the kids should be given homework.

  Bill Cosby

  Education, Sex, Believe

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• The really good idea is always traceable back quite a long way, often to a not very good idea which sparked off another idea that was only slightly better, which somebody else misunderstood in such a way that they then said something which was really rather interesting.

  John Cleese

  Ideas, Interesting, Long

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• New ideas pass through three periods: 1) It can't be done. 2) It probably can be done, but it's not worth doing. 3) I knew it was a good idea all along!

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Dangerous Ideas, Three, Done

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• Whenever somebody comes up with a good idea, there's somebody else who has never had a good idea in his life who stands up and says, "Oh, you can't do that..."

  Tom Clancy

  Ideas, Brilliant Ideas, Come Up

  "Vonnegut and Clancy on Technology". Interview with Sarah Schafer, www.inc.com. December 15, 1995.

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• I see good ideas on the Republican side as well as the Democratic side. You have to return civility and statesmanship to governance. If you don't do that, it doesn't matter what portfolio of issue you're pushing, nothing is going to get done.

  Richard Carmona

  Issues, Ideas, Return

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• Dieting on New Year's Day isn't a good idea as you can't eat rationally but really need to be free to consume whatever is necessary, moment by moment, in order to ease your hangover. I think it would be much more sensible if resolutions began generally on January the second.

  Helen Fielding

  New Year, Hangover, Thinking

  Helen Fielding (2013). “The Bridget Jones Omnibus: The Singleton Years: Bridget Jones's Diary & The Edge of Reason”, p.14, Pan Macmillan

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• Sex in space is not just a good idea, it's survival.

  Vanna Bonta

  Sex, Ideas, Space

  "Outer-space sex carries complications" by Alan Boyle, www.nbcnews.com. July 24, 2006.

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• You sit at the board and suddenly your heart leaps. Your hand trembles to pick up the piece and move it. But what chess teaches you is that you must sit there calmly and think about whether it's really a good idea and whether there are other, better ideas.

  Stanley Kubrick

  Moving, Learning, Heart

  Newsweek, May 26, 1980.

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• A good idea is about ten percent and implementation and hard work, and luck is 90 percent.

  Guy Kawasaki

  Work, Ideas, Luck

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• If there is time to reflect, slowing down is likely to be a good idea.

  Daniel Kahneman

  Ideas, Slow Down, Ifs

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• No director wants to be directed, but no good director... would shy away from the good ideas of others.

  Tommy Lee Jones

  Ideas, Directors, Shy

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• Building a professional relationship on respect as opposed to affection is a very good idea. Running your art projects the way you'd run a dry-cleaning business is also a really good idea. You shouldn't go into work like you're going on a date, like you're hanging out with friends.

  Penn Jillette

  Running, Art, Ideas

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I guess that's one achievement I'm really proud of. Saving Chrysler was more than jobs, more than shareholder value. Saving Chrysler was a good idea for the whole country.

  Lee Iacocca

  Country, Jobs, Ideas

  "Lee Iacocca, The !dea Man". Interview with David E. Davis, Jr., www.motortrend.com. October 5, 2005.

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• Good ideas are a dime a dozen, bad ones are free.

  Douglas Horton

  Ideas, Dimes, Dozen

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• Making art, good art, is always a struggle. It can make you happy when you pull it off. There's no better feeling. It's beauteous. But it's always about hard work and inspiration and sweat and good ideas.

  Damien Hirst

  Art, Struggle, Inspiration

  "Damien Hirst: 'I still believe art is more powerful than money'". Interview with Sean O'Hagan, www.theguardian.com. March 10, 2012.

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

  Mark Haddon

  Ideas, Realizing

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