Good Ideas Quotes - Page 6

• [David Harker asked: Dr Pauling, how do you have so many good ideas?]
  Well David, I have a lot of ideas and throw away the bad ones.

  Linus Pauling

  Ideas, Drs, Wells

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• You have to have a lot of ideas. First, if you want to make discoveries, it's a good thing to have good ideas. And second, you have to have a sort of sixth sense-the result of judgment and experience-which ideas are worth following up. I seem to have the first thing, a lot of ideas, and I also seem to have good judgment as to which are the bad ideas that I should just ignore, and the good ones, that I'd better follow up.

  Linus Pauling

  Science, Discovery, Ideas

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• [N]o scientist likes to be criticized. ... But you don't reply to critics: "Wait a minute, wait a minute; this is a really good idea. I'm very fond of it. It's done you no harm. Please don't attack it." That's not the way it goes. The hard but just rule is that if the ideas don't work, you must throw them away. Don't waste any neurons on what doesn't work. Devote those neurons to new ideas that better explain the data. Valid criticism is doing you a favor.

  Carl Sagan

  Science, Data, Ideas

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• Never hesitate to steal a good idea.

  Al Neuharth

  Ideas, Stealing

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• All good ideas arrive by chance.

  Max Ernst

  Writing, Ideas, Intuition

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• So that's how you're going to fix the family problem. Little Dragomirs. Good idea.

  Richelle Mead

  Ideas, Littles, Family Problems

  Richelle Mead (2010). “Vampire Academy: Last Sacrifice”, p.215, Penguin UK

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• Crowley shook his head. "I sometimes wonder if it was a good idea having Halt train apprentices. He seems to teach them no respect for authority." "Oh, he teaches us to respect authority," Gilan said innocently. "He just teaches us to ignore it when necessary.

  John Flanagan

  Ideas, Sometimes, Wonder

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• It's a good idea always to do something relaxing prior to making an important decision in your life.

  Paulo Coelho

  Ideas, Decision, Relaxation

  Paulo Coelho (1992). “The diary of a magus”, Harpercollins

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• Everyone thinks I'm showing off when I talk, ridiculous when I'm silent, insolent when I answer, cunning when I have a good idea, lazy when I'm tired, selfish when I eat one bite more than I should.

  Anne Frank

  Selfish, Tired, Thinking

  Anne Frank (2011). “The Diary of a Young Girl: The Definitive Edition”, p.54, Bantam

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• Some days, a killing spree seems like a good idea.

  Lilith Saintcrow

  Ideas, Killing, Seems

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• I have noticed that doing the sensible thing is only a good idea when the decision is quite small. For the life-changing things, you must risk it.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Life Changing, Ideas, Decision

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• It's vital to remember who you really are. It's very important. It isn't a good idea to rely on other people or things to do it for you, you see. They always get it wrong.

  Terry Pratchett

  Ideas, People, Important

  Terry Pratchett (2009). “Sourcery: (Discworld Novel 5)”, p.318, Random House

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• What? Corpus. Body. Corpse. Good idea the Latin. Stupifies them first. Hospice for the dying. They don't seem to chew it; only swallow it down.

  James Joyce

  Latin, Ideas, Dying

  James Joyce (1946). “Ulysses”, Modern Library

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• Take one more step and I'll put an arrow through you." Will tried to model his voice on the quiet, threatening tone Halt had used. He had retrieved several of his arrows from the nearest target and now he had one of them ready, laid on the bowstring. Halt glanced around approvingly. "Good idea," he said. "Aim for the left calf. It's a very painful wound.

  John Flanagan

  Ideas, Voice, Arrows

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• I worry that there are people who are put in positions of authority because they're good talkers, but they don't have good ideas. It's so easy to confuse schmoozing ability with talent. Someone seems like a good presenter, easy to get along with, and those traits are rewarded. Well, why is that? They're valuable traits, but we put too much of a premium on presenting and not enough on substance and critical thinking.

  Susan Cain

  Thinking, Ideas, Worry

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• What do you think Dimitri? Is this a good idea, Dimitri? Please give us your blessing so that we can fall down and worship you, Dimitri.

  Richelle Mead

  Fall, Blessing, Thinking

  Richelle Mead (2012). “The Golden Lily: A Bloodlines Novel”, p.109, Penguin

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• Every head turned to see two more security guards appear, each holding a Bagshaw by the back of the neck (which might have been considerably less conspicuous had the Bagshaws not been dressed as chimney sweeps). Kat turned back to Hale. 'The Mary Poppins?' 'Seemed like a good idea at the time.

  Ally Carter

  Security Guards, Ideas, Two

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• What were you going to do with it?” McCain asked. "I just thought it might come in useful.” "Were you planning to attack me?” "No. But that’s a good idea.

  Anthony Horowitz

  Ideas, Might, Planning

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• I realised all the good ideas were taken before I was even born.

  Jeff Kinney

  Taken, Ideas, Born

  Jeff Kinney (2012). “Cabin Fever (Diary of a Wimpy Kid book 6)”, p.120, Penguin UK

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• People think focus means saying yes to the thing you've got to focus on. But that's not what it means at all. It means saying no to the hundred other good ideas that there are. You have to pick carefully. I'm actually as proud of the things we haven't done as the things I have done. Innovation is saying no to 1,000 things.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspiring, Mean, Thinking

  Steve Jobs (0101). “Motivating Thoughts of Steve Jobs”, p.44, Prabhat Prakashan

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• In the whole of your absurd past you discover so much that's absurd, so much deceit and credulity, that it might be a good idea to stop being young this minute, to wait for youth to break away from you and pass you by, to watch it going away, receding in the distance, to see all its vanity, run your hand through the empty space it has left behind, take a last look at it, and then start moving, make sure your youth has really gone, and then calmly, all by yourself, cross to the other side of Time to see what people and things really look like.

  Louis-Ferdinand Celine

  Running, Distance, Moving

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• I only share when I have no unmet needs that I'm trying to fill. I firmly believe that being vulnerable with a larger audience is only a good idea if the healing is tied to the sharing, not to the expectations I might have for the response I get.

  Brené Brown

  Believe, Healing, Ideas

  Brené Brown (2012). “Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, andLead”, p.162, Penguin

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• The trick to having good ideas is not to sit around in glorious isolation and try to think big thoughts. The trick is to get more parts on the table.

  Steven Johnson

  Thinking, Engineering, Ideas

  Steven Johnson (2010). “Where Good Ideas Come From”, p.32, Penguin

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• If you don't let technology help you, if you resist good ideas, you condemn yourself to dinosaurhood.

  Yann Martel

  Technology, Ideas, Helping

  Yann Martel (2012). “Life Of Pi, Illustrated”, p.114, Canongate Books

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• The next chamber is full of songbirds, if I remember right. Their music is like turtleweed. It will put you to sleep if you listen to it. They sleep most of the time, so the best thing is to pass through without waking them up. If they do awaken, then you must sing loud enough to drown out their music." "Great," Han said. "Whose idea was that?" "It seemed like a good idea at the time," Crow said. "I was an excellent singer.

  Cinda Williams Chima

  Sleep, Ideas, Bird

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