Right Ideas Quotes

• If you think you can't, you're right.

  Carol Bartz

  Inspirational, Positive, Smart

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• Ideas improve. The meaning of words participates in the improvement. Plagiarism is necessary. Progress implies it. It embraces an author's phrase, makes use of his expressions, erases a false idea, and replaces it with the right idea.

  Guy Debord

  Writing, Expression, Ideas

  Guy Debord (2012). “Society Of The Spectacle”, p.98, Bread and Circuses Publishing

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• It's important not to overstate the benefits of ideas. Quite frankly, I know it's kind of a romantic notion that you're just going to have this one brilliant idea and then everything is going to be great. But the fact is that coming up with an idea is the least important part of creating something great. It has to be the right idea and have good taste, but the execution and delivery are what's key.

  Sergey Brin

  Business, Ideas, Creating

  "Secrets of a Nimble Giant". Interview with Jemima Kiss, www.theguardian.com. June 17, 2009.

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• I have the right ideas, but my words are too... complicated. I need to simplify them, so that people won't get lost in the dark when they see and hear them. I want them to shine like beacons of light in a world of overly complicated darkness. One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple.

  Jack Kerouac

  Writing, Dark, Simple

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• I find that as I get older I seem to become more of a Luddite... And hearing animal experimenters describe me as a Luddite--which used to think I was not. And now I think Ned Lud had the right idea and we should have stopped all the machinery way back when, and learned to live simple lives.

  Ingrid Newkirk

  Animal, Simple, Thinking

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• Globalization was a deep trend pushed by technology and right ideas, as much as anything else.

  Jeffrey Sachs

  Technology, Ideas, Trends

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• Rather than exist each day in some dull, boring habitual manner, move into action on a big idea. Everyone is on the brink of possibility. Your responsibility is to discover what that possibility is for you. Ideas can turn you on, they can wind you up. The right idea can and will add a new dimension to your life.

  Bob Proctor

  Motivational, Moving, Responsibility

  FaceBook post by Bob Proctor from Dec 13, 2011

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• Hitler had the right idea. He was just an underachiever.

  Zach Braff

  Ideas

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• Now, I'm not going to be misquoted on this like I have numerous times before, so I'll be quite clear. I've never said hitler was my hero, just that if he had focused on more than one race he would have had the right idea. Try to turn that one against me.

  Zach Braff

  Hero, Ideas, Race

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• If I'm hesitant at all about an idea, then that's not the right idea.

  M. Night Shyamalan

  Ideas, Hesitant, Ifs

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• It's just as sure a recipe for failure to have the right idea fifty years too soon as five years too late.

  John R. Platt

  Carpe Diem, Ideas, Years

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• I always went into an area that was in last place, with a philosophy, 'You can't fall off the floor.' And I was lucky, was at the right time and the right place, with the right ideas, and each one of these areas became number one.

  Michael Eisner

  Positive, Philosophy, Fall

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• I hate witches. Humans had the right idea, burning them at the stake.

  Charlaine Harris

  Hate, Ideas, Burning

  Charlaine Harris (2009). “Sookie Stackhouse 8-copy Boxed Set”, p.787, Penguin

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• On the one hand, the financial projection is on the agenda - we will see if this problem can be resolved or not. I think it is a right idea to stage a special summit, which would deal with the question of priorities of European politics.

  Angela Merkel

  Thinking, Hands, Ideas

  Interview with Bertrand Benoit, Andrew Gowers, www.ft.com. July 20, 2005.

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• You really don't understand the first thing about writing...for one thing, early in the morning is the worst possible time. the brain is like a wet sponge at that hour. And for another, real writing is a question of staring into space and waiting for the right ideas.

  Cornelia Funke

  Morning, Real, Writing

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• People pontificate, "Suicide is selfishness." Career churchmen like Pater go a step further and call in a cowardly assault on the living. Oafs argue this specious line for varying reason: to evade fingers of blame, to impress one's audience with one's mental fiber, to vent anger, or just because one lacks the necessary suffering to sympathize. Cowardice is nothing to do with it - suicide takes considerable courage. Japanese have the right idea. No, what's selfish is to demand another to endure an intolerable existence, just to spare families, friends, and enemies a bit of soul-searching.

  David Mitchell

  Suicide, Selfish, Careers

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• Rizal learned the right ideas at the wrong time, and for this he was shot.

  Ambeth R. Ocampo

  Ideas, Shots, Wrong Time

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• It is not easy to convey, unless one has experienced it, the dramatic feeling of sudden enlightenment that floods the mind when the right idea finally clicks into place. One immediately sees how many previously puzzling facts are neatly explained by the new hypothesis. One could kick oneself for not having the idea earlier, it now seems so obvious. Yet before, everything was in a fog.

  Francis Crick

  Fog, Ideas, Feelings

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• Taking ideas seriously does not fit with the rhetorical style of textbooks, which presents events so as to make them seem foreordained along a line of constant progress. Including ideas would make history contingent: things could go either way, and have on occasion. The 'right' people, armed with the 'right' ideas, have not always won. When they didn't, the authors would be in the embarrassing position of having to disapprove of an outcome in the past. Including ideas would introduce uncertainty. This is not textbook style.

  James W. Loewen

  Past, Ideas, People

  James W. Loewen (2013). “Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong”, p.203, The New Press

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• I'm thinking maybe letting the latches burn is the right idea. Let everything burn until there's nothing left but ashes and cool rain.

  Rodman Philbrick

  Rain, Thinking, Ideas

  Rodman Philbrick (2013). “The Last Book in the Universe”, p.146, Scholastic Inc.

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• From any vocabulary of ideas we can build other ideas by formal combinations of signs. But not any set of ideas will be instructive. One must have the right ideas.

  Ian Hacking

  Vocabulary, Ideas, Combination

  Ian Hacking (2006). “The Emergence of Probability: A Philosophical Study of Early Ideas about Probability, Induction and Statistical Inference”, p.139, Cambridge University Press

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• I try to wait until things set up just right before I take a trade. Then, when I'm ready to take the trade, I slowly count to ten before I pick up the phone. It's better to have the wrong idea and good timing than the right idea and bad timing.

  Linda Bradford Raschke

  Ideas, Phones, Waiting

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• I want to write a film. I need to think of the right idea and focus on that; I love writing.

  Jack Whitehall

  Writing, Thinking, Ideas

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I am so much a Unitarian as this: that I believe the human mind can admit but one God, and that every effort to pay religious homage to more than one being goes to take away all right ideas.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  God, Religious, Believe

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2905, Delphi Classics

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• I never sat down and wrote, but what I do is kind of act as a dramaturge for the piece. I am sitting with the writers. I'm discussing ideas with the writers and concepts. We're debating and having a dialectic where we are taking a lot of different ideas and trying to synthesize them into the right idea. I'm very much a part of that process. That's my job as the director.

  Larry Charles

  Jobs, Ideas, Trying

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