Good Ideas Quotes

Good Ideas Quote of the day

If you want to have good ideas you must have many ideas. Most of them will be wrong, and what you have to learn is which ones to throw away.

Reading good books implants good ideas in the mind, develops good aspirations, and leads to the cultivation of good friends.

Nothing is more powerful for your future than being a gatherer of good ideas and information. That's called doing your homework.

All the really good ideas I ever had came to me while I was milking a cow.

Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into practice with courageous impatience.

Good ideas come from everywhere. It's more important to recognize a good idea than to author it.

Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats.

I fancy that no good ideas upon that campaign will be mentioned at any time that did not receive their share of consideration by General Lee.

If Jesus is the Son of God, his teachings are more than just good ideas from a wise teacher; they are divine insights on which I can confidently build my life.

All good ideas arrive by chance.

All good ideas start out as bad ideas, that's why it takes so long.

A good scientist is a person with original ideas. A good engineer is a person who makes a design that works with as few original ideas as possible. There are no prima donnas in engineering.

Don't use your mind for a filing cabinet. Use your mind to work out problems and find answers; file away good ideas in your journal.

We shouldn't be looking for heroes, we should be looking for good ideas.

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

Our world is endangered by the absence of good ideas

I get all my good ideas sort of at one o' clock in the morning, and I tried for a while to behave like normal people.

Humanism is a philosophy of joyous service for the greater good of all humanity, of application of new ideas of scientific progress for the benefit of all.

These days, the problem isn't how to innovate; it's how to get society to adopt the good ideas that already exist.

In teaching, you do not want to COVER things, you want to UNCOVER them. The best way to get good ideas is to have lots of ideas.

When you're glad to be alive, good ideas come. The reason good ideas don't come today is because we're all bottled up with greed and anger. We're mad.

Good ideas, as we have seen, are not always well received, especially if there are too many of them.

The way to get good ideas is to get lots of ideas and throw the bad ones away.

Never give up. Don't let good ideas be buried with you. Breathe it. Dream it. Live it and relentlessly pursue your ideas and ideals. Without them you cannot achieve anything meaningful in life.

Even a bad idea executed is better than a good idea undone.

Without courage we will simply accumulate a collection of good ideas and regrets.

That’s the key to new and good ideas; they come from having a very broad and multidisciplinary range of interests.

The two are not mutually exclusive, but we think we can have wealth without good ideas and without values and without a clear vision. Wealth without vision is insanity.

No director wants to be directed, but no good director... would shy away from the good ideas of others.

Having established that good ideas do indeed come in from the cold, start on the fringes and become mainstream, can we make any predictions about what the next move will be?

The good ideas will survive.

When something has to be done, do it! In France we are full of good ideas, but we rarely put them into practice.

I never felt like dying was a good idea.

The only way to oppose a bad idea is to replace it with a good idea.

As you move through life, set aside good ideas and give them to others to encourage and inspire.

... a good idea always attracts other good ideas.

Never hesitate to steal a good idea.

There are no hard times for good ideas.

A lot of times people start out with a lot of good ideas, but then they don't execute. They lose the purity of their vision. You end up running around in circles.

[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.

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.

Good ideas have expiration dates. You need to act before they become dated, irrelevant or otherwise spoiled.

You can't have good ideas unless you're willing to generate a lot of bad ones.

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

Good ideas are the backbone of good government.

We were young, but we had good advice and good ideas and lots of enthusiasm.

Success is not a secret – it never has been. There are only a few really good ideas and not one of them is a secret.

There's no field of music which doesn't have good ideas.

I can only think of so many good ideas in a week. Having other people contribute makes my life easier.

When you don't have to ask for permission innovation thrives.