Good Ideas Quotes - Page 5

• You don't have a really good idea until you combine two little ideas.

  Twyla Tharp

  Ideas, Two, Littles

  Twyla Tharp, Mark Reiter (2003). “The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life”, Simon and Schuster

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• Capital does not 'beget profit' as Marx thought. The capital goods as such are dead things that in themselves do not accomplish anything. If they are utilized according to a good idea, profit results. If they are utilized according to a mistaken idea, no profit or losses result. It is the entrepreneurial decision that creates either profit or loss.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Loss, Ideas, Decision

  Ludwig Von Mises (1974). “Planning for freedom, and twelve other essays and addresses”

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• The fact that the majority wants something good does not give them the right to use force on the minority that don't want to pay for it. If you have to use a gun, it's not really a very good idea. Democracy without respect for individual rights sucks. It's just ganging up on the weird kid, and I'm always the weird kid.

  Penn Jillette

  Kids, Gun, Rights

  Penn Jillette (2012). “God, No!: Signs You May Already Be an Atheist and Other Magical Tales”, p.151, Simon and Schuster

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• Entrepreneurs embody the promise of America: the idea that if you have a good idea and are willing to work hard and see it through, you can succeed in this country. And in fulfilling this promise, entrepreneurs also play a critical role in expanding our economy and creating jobs.

  Barack Obama

  Country, Jobs, Hard Work

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• I can only think of so many good ideas in a week. Having other people contribute makes my life easier.

  Martin Fowler

  Thinking, Ideas, People

  Martin Fowler, Kent Beck, John Brant, William Opdyke, Don Roberts (2012). “Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code”, p.59, Addison-Wesley

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• We are a one party country. Half of them call themselves Democrats and the other half call themselves Republicans. All the good ideas come from the Libertarians.

  Hugh Downs

  Country, Party, Ideas

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• Sometimes I have good ideas. I love that part of our job. It's a constant process of searching, of exploring stuff, and realizing things. You can be in the middle of the film and it's like, "Oh my God! I think we need to do this! Maybe in this scene she should shave her head!"

  Noomi Rapace

  Jobs, Thinking, Ideas

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• If you want to be creative, don't try to do something new. Doing something new means NOT doing what's been done before, and that's a negative impulse. Negative impulses are frustrating. They're the opposite of creativity, and they never yield good ideas.

  Eva Zeisel

  Creativity, Mean, Yield

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• You can't just repurpose old material created for one platform, throw it up on another one, and then be surprised when everyone yawns in your face. No one would ever think it was a good idea to use a print ad for a television commercial, or confuse a banner ad for a radio spot. Like their traditional media platform cousins, every social media platform has its own language.

  Gary Vaynerchuk

  Cousin, Thinking, Media

  Gary Vaynerchuk (2013). “Jab, Jab, Jab, Right Hook: How to Tell Your Story in a Noisy Social World”, p.17, Harper Collins

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• I always like it when someone attractive to me agrees with me, so I have fond memories of Phil Fisher. The idea that it was hard to find good investments, so concentrate in a few, seems to me to be an obviously good idea. But 98% of the investment world doesn't think this way.

  Charlie Munger

  Memories, Thinking, Ideas

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• Rationality is not just something you do so that you can make more money, it is a binding principle. Rationality is a really good idea. You must avoid the nonsense that is conventional in one's own time. It requires developing systems of thought that improve your batting average over time.

  Charlie Munger

  Average, Ideas, Principles

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• It's a good idea to prioritize your life and not making drinking the top priority. I think there are aspects of it that definitely illuminate bad decisions and how they'll negatively affect you.

  Madeline Zima

  Drinking, Thinking, Ideas

  Source: collider.com

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• It's a good idea to not get involved with somebody that you don't trust. That's for sure.

  Madeline Zima

  Ideas, Don't Trust, Get Involved

  Source: collider.com

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• The decision to go to the moon is now appreciated and associated with President Kennedy's speech, but somebody else had told him it was a good idea. It turned out to be a good commitment, but it was a unique situation.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Commitment, Unique, Moon

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• I have one very basic rule when it comes to "good ideas". A good idea is not an idea that solves a problem cleanly. A good idea is an idea that solves several things at the same time. The mark of good coding is not that the program does what you want, it's that it also does something that you didn't start out wanting.

  Linus Torvalds

  Ideas, Doe, Want

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• Only twice I let people talk me out of good ideas.

  Natalie Massenet

  Ideas, People

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• There are plenty of good ideas, if only they can be backed with the power of action.

  Winston Churchill

  Ideas, Action, Plenty

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• I don't think that mass drug taking is a good idea. But I think that we must have a deputized minority, a shamanic professional class if you will, whose job is to bring ideas out of the deep black water and show them off to the rest of us and perform for our culture some of the cultural functions that shaman perform in pre-literate cultures.

  Terence McKenna

  Jobs, Thinking, Class

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• Coming up with a good idea, with an insight into the way the world works that is really new and that you really believe in, is a deeply satisfying experience.

  Paul Krugman

  Believe, Ideas, World

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• Beer. It always seems like such a good idea at the time, doesn't it? What's worse is beer seems like an even better idea after you've had some beer.

  Steven Hall

  Beer, Ideas, Seems

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• My feeling is that as far as creativity is concerned, isolation is required. Creation is embarrassing. For every new good idea you have, there are a hundred, ten thousand foolish ones.

  Isaac Asimov

  Creativity, Ideas, Feelings

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• It’s not a good idea to let on about extreme happy feelings. People get ideas.

  Susan Juby

  Ideas, People, Feelings

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• Law Number XXXVI: The thickness of the proposal required to win a multimillion dollar contract is about one millimeter per million dollars. If all the proposals conforming to this standard were piled on top of each other at the bottom of the Grand Canyon it would probably be a good idea.

  Norman Ralph Augustine

  Winning, Law, Ideas

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• Vegetarianism is a good idea.

  Jerry Springer

  Vegetarianism, Ideas

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• The point is that any law that makes criminals out of 15 million Americans is probably not such a good idea. The point was that drug abuse isn't a criminal issue, it's a healthcare issue. And the money and manpower we spend prosecuting a surfer in San Diego might better be used fighting things that genuinely threaten our national health and safety. That was the point.

  Josh Charles

  Fighting, Law, Ideas

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