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Quotes About Idea

An idea can be as flawless as can be, but its execution will always be full of mistakes.
~ Brent Scowcroft
You must have the modesty of saying, this is a bloody good idea but I probably won't believe it in five years' time.
~ Stuart Hall
We have a fair on our farm every year - a gymkhana and a dog show and a funfair and a heavy-horse show. It was my idea. Be careful what you wish for - it's a monster.
~ Martin Clunes
It's such a risk to write a novel that it's easy to become conservative - you're spending what would be, for me, a couple of years of my life on a single idea. Which is maybe one of the reasons I write stories - if it doesn't work, you've only lost a month.
~ Ethan Canin
I had a monumental idea this morning, but I didn't like it.
~ Samuel Goldwyn
I think funny is just the foundation. I don't really think, to some extent, funny is the absolute most important thing. It should also communicate some idea through the medium of cartooning. Just to be funny is... You know what, the things that you laugh hardest at aren't cartoons.
~ Robert Mankoff
Free-enterprise capitalism is the most powerful system for social cooperation and human progress ever conceived. It is one of the most compelling ideas we humans have ever had. But we can aspire to something even greater.
~ John Mackey
Born Free is an idea that came from a place of deep respect for the delicate cycle of life. How incredible to be able to work with gifted designers who, as mothers, recognize what the devastating loss of a child could mean and how easily that loss can be avoided.
~ Wangechi Mutu
I've been a huge animation fan since I was a kid, so the idea of seeing my characters in full motion on the big screen is completely mind-blowing.
~ Noelle Stevenson
The spent shell come out the .243 shining like a bright idea.
~ Tim Winton
But I'm not such a good judge of monsters; I don't know if the idea of a good death repels me now because it's in itself repellent, or because I no longer have the courage to seek such a thing.
~ Tim Winton
I didn't say that, Ziara protested, eyeing him as a sudden idea occurred to her. But I'm a practical person, and when I hear a new theory I like to give it a test. Shall we as the Ascendancy to declare war on someone? I was thinking a little smaller, she said. Come on.
~ Timothy Zahn
I didn't say that, Ziara protested, eyeing him as a sudden idea occurred to her. But I'm a practical person, and when I hear a new theory I like to give it a test. Shall we ask the Ascendancy to declare war on someone? I was thinking a little smaller, she said. Come on.
~ Timothy Zahn
I recognized no obstacle to miraculous change but the incredulity of others. This was an idea that died hard, if it ever really died at all.
~ Tobias Wolff
My melancholy thoughts are back. But I still love the idea of love.
~ Toni Morrison
I don't like the idea of being killed by fools. I shall have to ensure that this does not happen.
~ Kerry Greenwood
Hollywood is more of an idea than a place.
~ Kevin Bacon
strong thought about a thing is always thought about its original nature;
~ Kevin Belmonte
I think that somebody with the resources and innovation and the idea is going to come out of nowhere and come up with a successful space travel program.
~ Kevin J. Anderson
The biblical scholar Wilhelm de Wette generalized the idea: "The spirit of Protestantism . . . leads necessarily to political freedom.
~ Kevin J. Vanhoozer
A fact is interesting, an idea is important, but only a story, a good argument, a well-crafted narrative is amazing, never to be forgotten.
~ Kevin Kelly
Tim believes that entrepreneurship isn't based on an idea or a plan, or even a model - it is based on having a strong competency in something. The way to overcome fear, he claims, is by testing your competency.
~ Kevin Kelly
A non-programmer friend once remarked that code looks like poetry. I get that feeling from really good code, that everything in the text has a purpose and that it's there to help me understand the idea. Unfortunately, writing code doesn't have the same romantic image aswriting poetry.
~ Kevlin Henney
The next time an idea for a small program springs to mind, awaken your knowledge of the Java class library from hibernation rather than reaching for that JHipster scaffold. Hipsterism is passé; living a simple life is where it's at now. I bet Mort loved the simple life.
~ Kevlin Henney