Good Ideas Quotes - Page 2

• I am aware that success is more than a good idea. It is timing too.

  Anita Roddick

  Success, Time, Business

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• You don't have to start from scratch to do something interesting. You don't have to start from scratch to have a massive impact on the world. You have to have a good idea. You have to convince other people of those good ideas. And you have to push as quickly as possible.

  Jack Dorsey

  Impact, Ideas, People

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• Before the game there was all this stuff about anti-racism and anti-bullying. It would be a good idea to start wearing wristbands for anti-diving.

  Roy Keane

  Soccer, Football, Bullying

  "Keane Dives Into Cole Ploy" by Christopher Davies, www.telegraph.co.uk. February 17, 2005.

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• You must be very patient, very persistent. The world isn't going to shower gold coins on you just because you have a good idea. You're going to have to work like crazy to bring that idea to the attention of people. They're not going to buy it unless they know about it.

  Herb Kelleher

  Crazy, Ideas, People

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• There are as many violent women as men, but there's a lot of money in hating men, particularly in the United States -- millions of dollars. It isn't a politically good idea to threaten the huge budgets for women's refuges by saying that some of the women who go into them aren't total victims.

  Erin Pizzey

  Hate, Men, Ideas

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• When the messenger arrives and says 'Don't shoot the messenger,' it's a good idea to be prepared to shoot the messenger, just in case.

  Howard Tayler

  Ideas, Messengers, Cases

  "Schlock Mercenary". Webcomic by Howard Tayler, 2003-2006.

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• I think the Russian government is right to be concerned with propaganda on teenagers who are at the age of struggling through sexual identity issue and we should help to channel these urges in productive behavior. Heterosexuality is God’s design. Policies that encourage young people to think this are good ideas.

  Bryan Fischer

  Teenager, Struggle, Thinking

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• I know it is never a good idea to not be comfortable.

  Garance Dore

  Ideas, Knows, Comfortable

  "BYT Interviews: Garance Dore". Interview with Svetlana Legetic, brightestyoungthings.com. February 19, 2016.

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• When Hillary Clinton ran against Senator [Barack] Obama she thought him naive because he thought it was a good idea to talk to our enemies. I think those are exactly the people you have to talk to and you have to negotiate with.

  Bernie Sanders

  Thinking, Ideas, People

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• I think corporations should give more attention to this suffering and should wait to invest until there is a responsible government in Burma. I do not think it is a good idea to separate economics from politics; in fact, I do not think economics can be separated from politics It's quite understandable that many business concerns think only about their own profits It's up to the public to put as much pressure as it can on these companies, through shareholder resolutions and public actions.

  Aung San Suu Kyi

  Thinking, Ideas, Responsible Government

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• Sharing the same vision for what's on the page is always a good idea. The director's job is to establish what that is and make sure that everyone sticks to it when it comes down to actually executing it.

  Thomas Jane

  Jobs, Ideas, Vision

  Source: collider.com

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• Back in the day, a lot of our instructors in nonfiction were actually fiction scholars. So they would bring in stories as models for the essay. And in some ways that's a good idea, because we can all learn from other genres. But I think it also made me realize that I literally didn't have an essay model, and that if I wanted one I would have to find it.

  John D'Agata

  Thinking, Ideas, Fiction

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• The presidency is a serious job that requires sound judgment and good ideas, and there's no doubt in my mind that Jeb Bush has the experience and the character to be a great president.

  George W. Bush

  Jobs, Character, Ideas

  "George W. Bush Makes Campaign Trail Debut For His Brother". www.npr.org. February 15, 2016.

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• Well I've made no secret of my life long love of MAD Magazine, it's probably my first and greatest influence in terms of my comic sensibilities. I've known John [Ficarra] for many years, and we've been friends. About four or five months ago, at a dinner in New York, John made the very nice offer of my being guest editor for an issue of MAD and I thought about it for about half a nanosecond and decided that was a pretty good idea.

  Al Yankovic

  New York, Nice, Years

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• I think the best songs that come to me are ones that you sort of listen for. The ones - when I listen to some of my old stuff, I can tell when I had a good idea, but I forced it through, and I can hear myself - the bit that I've written, which sounds clunkier than the stuff that just sort of comes.

  Nick Lowe

  Song, Thinking, Ideas

  "Nick Lowe Brings His 'Quality Holiday Revue' To America". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. December 22, 2015.

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• I don't have a lot of experiences like this where every time I thought I had a good idea it was totally wrong. I had to give in completely and just try to make the movie Alejandro Amenábar was trying to make.

  Ethan Hawke

  Ideas, Giving, Trying

  "Ethan Hawke on ‘Regression’, ‘The Magnificent Seven’, and Playing a Space Pimp in ‘Valerian’". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. February 4, 2016.

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

  Adam Rapp

  Ideas, Sometimes, Stage Managers

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• And we're being attacked because of what we do, not because of who we are. And by refusing to talk about that, I'm afraid the American people, at least, don't have a good idea of just how dangerous the threat is that we face.

  Michael Scheuer

  Ideas, People, Who We Are

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Because the GIs were sent massively to South Vietnam, maybe it's a good idea to have a broadcast for them.

  Hanoi Hannah

  Ideas, Vietnam, Gis

  "The Search for Hanoi Hannah". Interview with Don North, www.psywarrior.com.

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• As you move through life, set aside good ideas and give them to others to encourage and inspire.

  Peter J. Daniels

  Motivational, Moving, Ideas

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• A good idea for lyrics and a melody to expand on.

  Gordon Waller

  Ideas, Brilliant Ideas, Melody

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• Good ideas need good strategy to realize their potential.

  Reid Hoffman

  Ideas, Needs, Realizing

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• You want diversity in any intellectual organization. I mean, that's how good ideas arise.

  Louis Menand

  Mean, Organization, Ideas

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

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• I remember stepping off and thinking that it might not be a good idea to let anyone know that I'm a homosexual, which is hilarious because I'm probably the gayest man I know. I had these huge dreams and they came to fruition so quickly.

  Leslie Jordan

  Dream, Thinking, Men

  "Candid Q & A with gay icon Leslie Jordan". Today Interview, www.today.com. July 16, 2008.

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• If somebody told me, "Not a good idea," I would've said, "No, it's probably a good idea if you get drunk with me." I would've flipped it around on them. There was no way you could tell me anything. I wasn't listening to any type of reason.

  Reginald Arvizu

  Ideas, Drunk, Listening

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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