Good Ideas Quotes - Page 24

• I don't like to be told what to do at all. That's unfortunate because a lot of people come up with good ideas and can direct you.

  Grace Slick

  Ideas, People, Come Up

  Source: www.rollingstone.com

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

  David Letterman

  Wall, Real, Ideas

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• I tell you all this because it's worth recognizing that there is no such thing as an overnight success. You will do well to cultivate the resources in yourself that bring you happiness outside of success or failure. The truth is, most of us discover where we are headed when we arrive. At that time, we turn around and say, yes, this is obviously where I was going all along. It's a good idea to try to enjoy the scenery on the detours, because you'll probably take a few.

  Bill Watterson

  Ideas, Trying, Detours

  "Some thoughts on the real world by one who glimpsed it and fled". Bill Watterson's commencement speech at the Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio, www.graduationwisdom.com. May 20, 1990.

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• With directors, some have a kind of in-built ability to just know how to work with actors and get the best out of actors, and some don't have a clue about acting. I think it'd be a good idea if directors put themselves in front of the camera, or even went on a six-week drama course, just to know a little bit about what that feels like.

  Paddy Considine

  Drama, Thinking, Ideas

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• I've often hesitated in beginning a project because I've thought, 'It'll never turn out to be even remotely like the good idea I have as I start.' I could just 'feel' how good it could be. but I decided that, for the present, I would create the best way I know how and accept the ambiguities.

  Fred Rogers

  Ideas, Way, Accepting

  Fred Rogers (1995). “You Are Special: Words of Wisdom for All Ages from a Beloved Neighbor”, p.47, Penguin

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• Whoever decided that comic valentines were a good idea should have been sent away to think it over.

  Gladys Taber

  Valentine, Thinking, Should Have

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• I have a really good idea of who my readers are and always write with a sensitivity to my audience. I use the F word when necessary, but there are words I won't use, mainly because I don't like them. I don't write about body parts when I write about sex. It's not about the physiological, it's more important for teens to read about the emotional aspects. I do think there are times when self-censorship is important.

  Ellen Hopkins

  Sex, Writing, Emotional

  Source: ncac.org

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• I am pretty sick with myself! It seemed a pretty good idea at the time. Around the time I turned 30, I started to feel very creative, more creative than I had been before which is good and I like that.

  Ryan Gosling

  Ideas, Sick, Creative

  "The Ides of March - Ryan Gosling interview". Interview with Jack Foley, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• Self-criticism, like self-administered brain surgery, is perhaps not a good idea. Can the 'self' see the 'self' with any objectivity?

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Objectivity, Ideas, Self

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• it's a good idea to wait a few months before joining anything when you arrive at a village. A bookseller friend who retired to nearby Oxfordshire, and was worried he might be bored, got himself on to every village committee in the first six months, and spent the next ten years extricating himself.

  Jilly Cooper

  Ideas, Years, Bored

  Jilly Cooper (2012). “Angels Rush In”, p.402, Random House

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• Neither party has God on its side, a monopoly on good ideas, or a lock on any single fiscal, social, or moral philosophy.

  Michael Bloomberg

  Philosophy, Party, Ideas

  "Special Report" With Brit Hume, www.foxnews.com. June 19, 2007.

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• Now some people when they sit down to write and nothing special comes, no good ideas, are so frightened that they drink a lot of strong coffee to hurry them up, or smoke packages of cigarettes, or take drugs or get drunk. They do not know that ideas come slowly, and that the more clear, tranquil and unstimulated you are, the slower the ideas come, but the better they are.

  Brenda Ueland

  Strong, Coffee, Writing

  Brenda Ueland (2013). “If You Want to Write”, p.25, Simon and Schuster

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• Usually, the best ideas come from other people's good ideas, which then, after a short gestation period, become your ideas.

  Amy Sedaris

  Gestation Period, Ideas, People

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• Hillary Clinton respects good ideas wherever they come from. That's something I haven't seen in a lot of powerful people.

  Ronan Farrow

  Powerful, Ideas, People

  "Ronan Farrow: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. September 13, 2013.

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• Never give up. Don't let good ideas be buried with you. Breathe it. Dream it.
  Live it and relentlessly pursue your ideas and ideals.
  Without them you cannot achieve anything meaningful in life.

  Li Cunxin

  Letting Go, Meaningful, Dream

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• Animations are really powerful - it's not just entertainment, it's a very cunning way to get good ideas across.

  Benedict Cumberbatch

  Powerful, Ideas, Way

  "Q&A: Benedict Cumberbatch talks Penguins Of Madagascar". Interview with Andy Lea, www.dailystar.co.uk. December 7, 2014.

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• With God's help, I've not had a drink in nine and a half years. That's my whole story right there. And because of that, I'm doing this. I'm making records, I'm touring. I was so involved in just getting brain damaged, I wasn't doing anything. I had great ideas, many notebooks filled with notes, some of them I can read and some of them I just can't read, but I really didn't do anything constructive, it was all just good ideas. Now I'm trying to lead a constructive life a day at a time.

  Ringo Starr

  Notebook, Years, Ideas

  Source: alltheseletters.com

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• I'm willing to work with anyone of either party who has a good idea and the commitment to see through. And we should all expect you to hold us accountable for our progress or our failure to deliver.

  Barack Obama

  Party, Commitment, Ideas

  "Darrell Issa, Fred Upton Talk Oversight; Allen West, Mike Lee on Tea Party Conservatives". "Fox News Sunday" with Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. January 2, 2011.

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• I've been very careful about what I say yes to and what I say no to. And I think seriously always about... this may be a good idea right now or it may be a lot of money right now, but will it be good for me five years from now? Will it be fun? Will it make me hate myself? I think about all of those things.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Fun, Hate, Thinking

  Interview with Andrew Friedman, toqueland.com. May 2, 2014.

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• The issue of snacking is complicated. In principle, "grazing" is probably a good idea. It would even out the insulin spikes and things like that from eating large meals. The problem is it makes it harder for people to control the amount they're eating.

  Michael Pollan

  Ideas, Issues, People

  Source: indianapublicmedia.org

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• People who snack sometimes sometimes eat kind of thoughtlessly and end up eating a lot more. But in principle, it's a really good idea if you can exert the kind of discipline needed.

  Michael Pollan

  Snacks, Ideas, Discipline

  Source: indianapublicmedia.org

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• I don't think abortion is a good idea. I personally am opposed to abortion, but I will not judge anybody else's right in that regard because I am not a woman and I could never face the actual reality of it.

  Martin Sheen

  Reality, Thinking, Ideas

  Source: progressive.org

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• The realization that I came to is that each citizen for himself or herself understands the economics, which is, "I better make more than I spend and I better put something aside for a rainy day, and I want to get a good idea about what to do with the surplus so that perhaps it can grow while I'm sleeping." And that that's capitalism. Everybody practices it, but half of the country - those on the left - deny that it's true.

  David Mamet

  Country, Sleep, Rainy Day

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• If you've got a good idea and you're willing to do whatever it takes to pursue it, keep your head up and eyes open because you don't know when opportunity will come knocking.

  Paula Deen

  Eye, Opportunity, Ideas

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• Hell is not a subject to be avoided; it is a place to be avoided. Thinking about Hell is actually a very good idea. It's a good way to keep ourselves out of it.

  Dale Ahlquist

  Thinking, Ideas, Way

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