Great Idea Quotes - Page 11

• Discover the great ideas that lie inside you by discovering the power of sleep.

  Arianna Huffington

  Lying, Sleep, Ideas

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• First something is a great idea, then it becomes a cause, then it becomes a business and finally it becomes a racket.

  Eric Hoffer

  Ideas, Firsts, Causes

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• [I]n contrast to the common belief that they are the world's greatest cynics, the best journalists are the world's great idealists. They have experienced firsthand the great soothing balance of human existence. For every disgrace there is triumph, for every wrong there is a moment of justice, for every funeral a wedding, for every obituary a birth announcement.

  Anna Quindlen

  Justice, Funeral, Balance

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• If I find a great idea, I work on it at the beginning, then bring in other people to make things work. Actually, I've always been good at getting out of work.

  Paul Orfalea

  Ideas, People, Ifs

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• The United States, or the American Republic, has a mission, and is chosen of God for the realization of a great idea. It has been chosen not only to continue the work assigned to Greece and Rome, but to accomplish a greater work than was assigned to either. In art, it will prove false to its mission if it do not rival Greece; and in science and philosophy, if it do not surpass it. In the State, in law, in jurisprudence, it must continue and surpass Rome.

  Orestes Brownson

  Art, Philosophy, Ideas

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• Herman Cain is out there, he says a lot of provocative things. He said America should build its own Great Wall of China. Cain says it's a great idea because if there's one thing you don't see in China, it's Mexicans.

  Conan O'Brien

  Wall, Ideas, America

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• Never let anyone define what you are capable of by using parameters that don't apply to you. Inspiration is for amateurs, the rest of us just show up and get to work. Every great idea I've ever had grew out of work itself. Sign onto a process and see where it takes you. You don't have to invent the wheel everyday. Today you will do what you did yesterday, tomorrow you will do what you did today. Eventually, you will get somewhere.

  Chuck Close

  Inspiration, Ideas, Yesterday

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• Even after seeing so much bad art in the last few years, it still seems possible that one can be led to the right places. I haven't given up hope because there are always great artists, great minds, and great ideas. New ideas are what give you hope. You have to base your opinions on the quality of the ideas in the artworks.

  Diego Cortez

  Art, Giving, Mind

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• People do not look at the music business as an entrepreneur business at all times, but everything in this business is entrepreneurship. It's one thing to have the money and not have the knowledge. A lot of times people have great ideas, but don't have a plan. The whole thing about being an entrepreneur is you have to have a plan.

  Bryan-Michael Cox

  People, Entrepreneur, All Time

  Source: www.complex.com

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• we can't be creative if we refuse to be confused. Change always starts with confusion; cherished interpretations must dissolve to make way for what's new. Great ideas and inventions miraculously appear in the space of not knowing.

  Margaret J. Wheatley

  Change, Confused, Ideas

  Margaret J. Wheatley (2002). “Turning to One Another: Simple Conversations to Restore Hope to the Future”, p.37, Berrett-Koehler Publishers

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• Children are great idealists, until the stupidity of their elders puts out the fires of the aspirations.

  Nellie L. McClung

  Children, Fire, Stupidity

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• To die for one's great ideas is glorious - and easy. The horror is to outlive them. That is our worst capability.

  Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie

  Ideas, Horror, Easy

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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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• Americans have always held firm, because we have always believed in certain truths. We know that if evil is not confronted, it gains in strength and audacity and returns to strike us again. We know that when the work is hard, the proper response is not retreat, it is courage. And we know that a great ideal of human freedom entrusted to us in a special way and that the ideal of liberty is worth defending.

  George W. Bush

  Evil, Special, Liberty

  George W. Bush's address to the Nation in Fort Bragg, North Carolina,, georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov. June 28, 2005.

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• A great idea is simply the combination of many good ideas.

  John C. Maxwell

  Ideas, Combination, Good Ideas

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• I love thinking, I love coming up with great ideas. I just get excited. Sometimes if I get a big idea, I'm just like a kid, like I've found a new toy.

  Dolly Parton

  Kids, Thinking, Ideas

  "Dolly Parton: The Southern Living Interview". Interview with Jennifer V. Cole, www.southernliving.com. September 11, 2014.

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• There's at least a hundred times more people with great ideas than people that are willing to put in the effort to execute them well.

  Sam Altman

  Ideas, People, Effort

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• The college kids should think hard about what they're doing. If you have a great idea for a company, there's no right time to start it, and it's often better to start it sooner rather than later. I went to Stanford undergrad and Stanford Law School, and if I had to do it over again, I might still do those things, but I wish I had asked the type of questions like, why I was doing it, was it just for the status and prestige, or was it because I was really interested in the substance of it.

  Peter Thiel

  School, Kids, College

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• The opposite of every great idea is another great idea.

  Niels Bohr

  Opposites, Ideas

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• No great idea in its beginning can ever be within the law. How can it be within the law?

  Emma Goldman

  Law, Ideas, Chariots

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• Inside the calm minds, great ideas swim serenely like the morning geese of the misty lakes!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Morning, Lakes, Calm Mind

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• I guess it's a bit cliché, but as an actor, I really admire good writing. There are a lot of great ideas out there, but it's the execution that really makes it work.

  Mike Colter

  Writing, Ideas, Actors

  "Mike Colter: On Meditation, Good Writing, and Passion Projects". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Mel [Gibson] could stage physical comedy and put the camera in such a way... I mean, we did some really funny stuff, and he had some great ideas about how to do it. It was a delight to work with him in that regard.

  Keith Carradine

  Mean, Ideas, Way

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I'm a songwriter. I've got ideas in the closet that just didn't work out with my band, that I think, "This is a great idea, it's just the wrong guys."

  Sammy Hagar

  Thinking, Ideas, Work Out

  Interview with Steven Hyden, music.avclub.com. April 5, 2011.

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• Every great idea emerges out of a process of trial-and-error experimentation.

  Scott D. Anthony

  Errors, Ideas, Trial And Error

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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