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Quotes About Ideas

Above all, do not talk yourself out of good ideas by trying to expound them at haphazard meetings.
~ Jacques Barzun
I do understand the free market, having my economics degree, and if someone on the right had some good ideas, I'm not so dogmatic that I wouldn't listen to them.
~ Jay Roach
I think people have good ideas on this. Clearly, we need to secure the border. Coming here legally needs to be a lot easier than coming here illegally.
~ Jeb Bush
I think good actors - good, collaborative actors who see themselves as leaders in a given production - can and should offer ideas that have nothing to do with wanting to direct themselves.
~ Joe Mantello
The bad thing is that thinking about thought doesn't help at all; one has to have it from nature so that the good ideas appear before us like free children of God calling to us: Here we are.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
You see a lot of good ideas or well-written scripts that are bad ideas.
~ John McTiernan
We wanted to be as expansive as possible to make sure we didn't preclude some good ideas.
~ John Poindexter
Young people don't even consider that it's a good idea to be out on the fringe, which is where good ideas come from.
~ Louis C. K.
You want diversity in any intellectual organization. I mean, that's how good ideas arise.
~ Louis Menand
I do all of my good thinking at over 65 miles per hour. The speed limit is, luckily, the same speed as my brainstorming speed.
~ Maggie Stiefvater
Try not to become disappointed if someone doesn't like a story you've written. Stick up for your ideas, but listen to what other people say, too. They might have good advice.
~ Margaret Mahy
I've come to realize that most good ideas are precisely the ones you can't describe.
~ Mark Haddon
Reform is not for the short-winded. I'm committed to making sure the Senate is more than just a graveyard for good ideas.
~ Mark Udall
Good ideas are free - or at least they should be.
~ Matthew McConaughey
People are ready to take the good things into their minds! Give them good and right ideas; they will immediately take them as if they are taking beautiful flowers!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Neither party has God on its side, a monopoly on good ideas, or a lock on any single fiscal, social, or moral philosophy.
~ Michael Bloomberg
Really good original ideas are very hard to come up with. Good ideas - easy. Really good, original ideas - it can take months.
~ Nicholas Sparks
All good ideas are terrible... Until people realize they are obvious. If you're not willing to live through the terrible stage, you'll never get to the obvious part.
~ Seth Godin
It's always the organizations that are resource constrained that come up with the good ideas to win.
~ Simon Sinek
Even the crudest, most derivative novel is an expression of the author's hopes and fears and ideas about good and evil.
~ Steven Saylor
I actually dream a lot of songs, and I try to be good about voice-memoing ideas.
~ Ted Leo
You can talk good ideas out of existence.
~ Vikram Seth
Even films without music are inspiring, as I think a good story is full of changes, different paces, and ideas.
~ Volker Bertelmann
If I got any good ideas out of that or I think they're good ideas, I'll be glad to contribute them but the system will probably overdo some other things.
~ Warren Buffett