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• Bitcoin, generally, is a great idea. Keeping wallets on smartphones is the worst idea of the decade

  John McAfee

  Ideas, Smartphones, Bitcoin

  Twitter post from Feb 14, 2014

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• Like having a great idea, life comes at you fast. It hits you and tries to escape and be expressed in any way possible. In a way, it's a lot like...lightning.

  Chris Colfer

  Ideas, Trying, Lightning

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• Dwarves are not heroes, but a calculating folk with a great idea of the value of money; some are tricky and treacherous and pretty bad lots; some are not but are decent enough people like Thorin and Company, if you don't expect too much.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Hero, Dwarves, Ideas

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Hobbit”, p.114, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• ...all members of Congress should be required wear NASCAR uniforms. You know, the kind with the patches? That way we'd know who is sponsoring each of them. I think he was kidding; they'd never be able to do it but it's a great idea and would wake people up in this country.

  Brad Thor

  Country, Thinking, Ideas

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• This is a great idea,” said Trey. “You kids should totaly go see that play. Make a whole day of it. Grab some dinner and hang out at the library or whatever it is you do for fun.

  Richelle Mead

  Fun, Kids, Play

  Richelle Mead (2012). “The Golden Lily: A Bloodlines Novel”, p.57, Penguin

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• Leo had seen Tia Callida in action; she liked knives, snakes and putting babies in roaring fires. Yeah, definitely let's unleash her rage. Great idea.

  Rick Riordan

  Baby, Fire, Knives

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• Just when I thought there wasn't room enough for another thought in my head, I had this great idea—

  John Ashbery

  Ideas, Rooms, Enough

  John Ashbery (2007). “Notes from the Air: Selected Later Poems”, Ecco

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• Now look, you built a factory and it turned into something terrific or a great idea, God Bless, keep a big hunk of it. But part of the underlying social contract is you take a hunk of that and paid forward for the next kid who comes along.

  Elizabeth Warren

  Kids, Ideas, Looks

  Elizabeth Warren (2014). “A Fighting Chance”, p.215, Metropolitan Books

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• There are exceptions of course, but most companies start with a great idea - not a pivot.

  Sam Altman

  Ideas, Company, Exception

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• What one great idea resonates deeper in the soul than any other...that we are free to choose. Next to life itself, the power to choose is your greatest gift.

  Stephen Covey

  Ideas, Soul, Next

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• I am always suspicious of the formulation that "politics" has prevented a great idea from being enacted by government. Politics IS government, in a democratic society. It's a challenge for school reformers, like reformers in any realm, to build a popular constituency for their work. If the people it's supposed to benefit vote against it, that tells me that the person pushing reform lacks political skill. And political skill is a good thing.

  Nicholas Lemann

  School, Government, Skills

  "Ask the Author Live: Nicholas Lemann on Higher Education". Live chat, www.newyorker.com. September 20, 2010.

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• The Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Fame was a great idea when it started, but I think they ought to close it, I think it's full.

  Iggy Pop

  Thinking, Ideas, Rocks

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• Being creative and playing with your content during the holidays is a great idea. But straying too far from your fundamental brand (from address, logo, etc.) can be a dangerous game. Your recipients need to be able to recognize you during this busy time of year.

  Paul Ford

  Holiday, Years, Games

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• Great men need to be lifted upon the shoulders of the whole world, in order to conceive their great ideas or perform their great deeds. That is, there must be an atmosphere of greatness round about them. A hero cannot be a hero unless in an heroic world.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Hero, Greatness, Men

  Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Julian Hawthorne (2015). “Life and Genius of Nathaniel Hawthorne: Letters, Diaries, Reminiscences and Extensive Biographies: Autobiographical Writings of the Renowned American Novelist, Author of “The Scarlet Letter”, “The House of Seven Gables” and “Twice-Told Tales””, p.404, e-artnow

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• The late Richard Feynman, a superb physicist, said once as we talked about the laser that the way to tell a great idea is that, when people hear it, they say, 'Gee, I could have thought of that.'

  Charles Hard Townes

  Ideas, People, Richard Feynman

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• Behind every great idea is someone saying "It won't work"

  John C. Maxwell

  Ideas, Behinds

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• History is littered with people who came up with great ideas and saw others profit from them. You need to make sure you don't join their ranks.

  Joey Reiman

  Ideas, People, Needs

  Joey Reiman (2001). “Thinking for a Living: Creating Ideas That Revitalize Your Business, Career, and Life”, p.103, Taylor Trade Publishing

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• A great idea goes through three stages on its way to acceptance: 1) it is dismissed as nonsense, 2) it is acknowledged as true, but insignificant, 3) finally, it is seen to be important, but not really anything new.

  William James

  Acceptance, Ideas, Important

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• All great ideas should be followed by an exclamation mark - a warning signal similar to the skull and crossbones drawn on high-voltage transformers.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Exclamation Marks, Ideas, Skulls

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• To defeat all their enemies and be victorious! This is the unpreventable destiny of all the great ideas!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Destiny, Ideas, Enemy

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• I guess the hard part is more in the development stage when we're writing it. The logic is hard. You come up with a great idea and you get all excited that it's going to work and then you go down two hours and then one guy turns to everyone and goes, 'Wait, that makes absolutely no sense because if he was there, then this wouldn't have happened, then this,' and it completely implodes.

  Dean Israelite

  Writing, Ideas, Two

  Source: collider.com

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• Cheap is the last refuge of a product developer or marketer who is out of great ideas.

  Seth Godin

  Ideas, Lasts, Refuge

  Seth Godin (2009). “Purple Cow, New Edition: Transform Your Business by Being Remarkable”, p.101, Penguin

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• You don't need a business plan. You don't need to have an MBA. All you need is a great idea. Anything is possible and you can accomplish it.

  Ron Conway

  Mba, Ideas, Needs

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• Strategy equals execution. All the great ideas and visions in the world are worthless if they can't be implemented rapidly and efficiently. Good leaders delegate and empower others liberally, but they pay attention to details, every day.

  Colin Powell

  Ideas, Empowering, Leader

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• When you get an idea, it's not going to be a great idea until you push it. You’ve got to push it until it’s uncomfortable. And then you’ve got to ask yourself, ‘Does my project say to my audience what I want it to say?’ ”

  Neko Case

  Ideas, Doe, Want

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