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• In India it is regarded as a good idea to dart in front of an oncoming car, for the car is sure to kill the evil spirits who are pursuing you, and all the rest of your life you will have good luck.

  Robertson Davies

  Life, Good Luck, Ideas

  Robertson Davies (1949). “The Table Talk of Samuel Marchbanks”, Clarke, Irwin

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• This country is a one-party country. Half of it is called Republican and half is called Democrat. It doesn't make any difference. All the really good ideas belong to the Libertarians.

  Hugh Downs

  Country, Party, Ideas

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• The Constitution: it's not just a good idea, it's the law.

  Michael Badnarik

  Law, Ideas, Liberty

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• It is a good idea to obey all the rules when you're young just so you'll have the strength to break them when you're old.

  Mark Twain

  Ideas, Breaking Rules, Young

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• Keep things informal. Talking is the natural way to do business. Writing is great for keeping records and putting down details, but talk generates ideas. Great things come from out luncheon meetings which consist of a sandwich, a cup of soup, and a good idea or two. No martinis.

  T. Boone Pickens

  Communication, Writing, Talking

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• Good ideas are common - what's uncommon are people who will work hard enough to bring them about.

  Ashleigh Brilliant

  Hard Work, Ideas, People

  Ashleigh Brilliant (1985). “All I Want is a Warm Bed and a Kind Word and Unlimited Power: Even More Brilliant Thoughts”, Brilliant Enterprises

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• Go to bed when summers ends, what a good idea; wake up bright and early when birds announce its spring.

  Francis Norris, 1st Earl of Berkshire

  Summer, Nature, Spring

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• I have a good idea every two years. Give me a topic, I will give you the idea! [Reputed to have been a remark made to the head of his department at Caltech.]

  Fritz Zwicky

  Years, Ideas, Two

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• Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into practice with courageous impatience. Once implemented they can be easily overturned or subverted through apathy or lack of follow-up, so a continuous effort is required.

  Hyman Rickover

  Leadership, Practice, Ideas

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• Good ideas, like good pickles, are crisp, enduring, and devilishly hard to make.

  Rushworth Kidder

  Ideas, Pickles, Endure

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• It is a good idea to be ambitious, to have goals, to want to be good at what you do, but it is a terrible mistake to let drive and ambition get in the way of treating people with kindness and decency. The point is not that they will then be nice to you. It is that you will feel better about yourself.

  Robert Solow

  Love, Inspirational, Dream

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• Rock 'n' Roll is a combination of good ideas dried up by fads, terrible junk, hideous failings in taste and judgment, gullibility and manipulation, moments of unbelievable clarity and invention, pleasure, fun, vulgarity, excess, novelty and utter enervation.

  Greil Marcus

  Fun, Rocks, Ideas

  Greil Marcus (2014). “Mystery Train”, p.104, Faber & Faber

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• If we are to achieve a world free from nuclear weapons, we need the involvement of young people. Youth have energy, enthusiasm and many good ideas to share. Most importantly, however, it is young people who will be inheriting the problems which have been left to them by the generations past.

  Marc Kielburger

  Past, Ideas, People

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• Before going mountain bike riding, it's a good idea to leave your valuables at home. Your testicles, for example.

  John Dockery

  Sex, Home, Ideas

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• Don't delay acting on a good idea. Chances are someone else has just thought of it, too. Success comes to the one who acts first.

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

  Successful, Ideas, Acting

  H. Jackson Brown Jr. (2007). “Complete Life's Little Instruction Book: 1,560 Suggestions, Observations, and Reminders on How to Live a Happy and Rewarding Life”, p.74, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• It certainly seems like a good idea to talk about Heaven, meditate about Heaven and read about Heaven, because, after all, that's where we're going to spend eternity.

  David Berg

  Ideas, Heaven, Eternity

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• You're dealing in magic-it's this intangible thing that has to happen. And to seek it out too much might not be a good idea. Because, you know, it's very shy, too. But once you've got the essence of them, you can work songs and improve them. You see if there's a better word, or a better change.

  Tom Petty

  Song, Essence, Ideas

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• I just tried to come up with some honest songs. What I was writing about was real plain stuff that I wasn't sure was going to be interesting to other people. But I guess it was...I've never had any discipline whatsoever. I just wait on a song like I was waiting for lightning to strike. And eventually-usually sometime around 3 in the morning-I'll have a good idea. By the time the sun comes up, hopefully, I'll have a decent song.

  John Prine

  Song, Morning, Real

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• Writin songs is like a mystery. The most difficult thing to do is have a good idea. If you have a decent idea, the songs are the easy part. Actually having something to say is the hard part. If you get an idea for a song, then it pulls you along. There are just some ideas that you get that are really hard to edit out; it's hard to stop thinking about some bad ideas. So you just finish it and you end up putting it on a record.

  Lyle Lovett

  Song, Thinking, Ideas

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• They mustn't know my despair, I can't let them see the wounds which they have caused, I couldn't bear their sympathy and their kind-hearted jokes, it would only make me want to scream all the more. If I talk, everyone thinks I'm showing off; when I'm silent they think I'm ridiculous; rude if I answer, sly if I get a good idea, lazy if I'm tired, selfish if I eat a mouthful more than I should, stupid, cowardly, crafty, etc. etc.

  Anne Frank

  Stupid, Selfish, Tired

  Anne Frank (1993). “Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl”, Bantam

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• If you wish to find, you must search. Rarely does a good idea interrupt you

  Jim Rohn

  Motivation, Business, Ideas

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Oct 17, 2016

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• Most of the time, the songs have jokes in them, little sarcastic things, or purposely kitsch or something. So that's going along with a story, like I do in life, just talking to myself and making fun of stuff and laughing at stuff that's serious. And sometimes it's a good idea to put the laughing into the songs. Sometimes it's not. Sometimes it's all right just to be serious. But most of the songs have some kind of joke in them.

  Paul Simon

  Sarcastic, Song, Fun

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• We believe that almost all really good investment records will involve relatively little diversification. The basic idea that it was hard to find good investments and that you wanted to be in good investments, and therefore, you'd just find a few of them that you knew a lot about and concentrate on those seemed to me such an obviously good idea. And indeed, it's proven to be an obviously good idea. Yet 98% of the investing world doesn't follow it. That's been good for us.

  Charlie Munger

  Believe, Ideas, Insightful

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• Statistics are like miniskirts: They give you good ideas but hide the important things.

  Ebbe Skovdahl

  Soccer, Football, Ideas

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• Always changing genres, making very different films is a good idea. It's a way of making yourself feel vulnerable again, getting back to that innocence. As is working within a circumspect budget.

  Danny Boyle

  Ideas, Different, Way

  "Danny Boyle: 'As soon as you think you can do whatever you want... then you're sunk'" by Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. December 4, 2010.

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