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Quotes About Idea

A mediocre idea that generates enthusiasm will go further than a great idea that inspires no one.
~ Mary Kay Ash
Bernanke has cultivated this idea that he is a brilliant scholar of The Great Depression, but that's not true at all.
~ David Stockman
Being a writer in Hollywood is like going to Hitler's Eagle Nest with a great idea for a bar mitzvah.
~ David Mamet
You have to put the idea into action. If you don't have the motivation and the enthusiasm, your great idea will simply sit on top of your desk or inside your head and go nowhere.
~ Donald Trump
It was a great idea from my teammate Jamal Crawford. He kept telling me to jump over Spud, so we decided to call him and he was more than willing to participate with me. I just thank God for him.
~ Nate Robinson
Bitcoin, generally, is a great idea. Keeping wallets on smartphones is the worst idea of the decade
~ John McAfee
It all starts with a great idea and teamwork.
~ Garrett Camp
Having a great idea is simply not enough. The eventual goal is vastly more important than any idea. It is how ideas are implemented that counts in the long run
~ Felix Dennis
Andrea: "....I think a dog is a great idea. I just never pictured you with a mutant poodle." Kate: "He isn't a poodle. He's a Doberman mix." Andrea: "Aha. Keep telling yourself that.
~ Ilona Andrews
Not only is it a great concept and a great idea -- helping people -- it's good pizza too!
~ Matt Lauer
It's a great idea: to feel the rhythm of something by seeing how it flows on a page.
~ Glenn Ligon
America comes from a flawed but wonderful idea. Many great things have sprung forth over the past few hundred years but there were deep issues in the beginning that now are starting to show up.
~ Peter Buffett
First something is a great idea, then it becomes a cause, then it becomes a business and finally it becomes a racket.
~ Eric Hoffer
Every great idea exerts, on first appearing, a tyrannical influence: Hence, the advantages it brings are turned all too soon into disadvantages.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
A lot of people have said to me, 'That's a great idea, running for president. You'll get booked for more speeches. You can write a book.'
~ John Bolton
Happiness will never be any greater than the idea we have of it.
~ Maurice Maeterlinck
Religion has caused more misery to all of mankind in every stage of human history than any other single idea.
~ Madalyn Murray O'Hair
It does mean, if this is the idea, the end of Britain as an independent European state...it means the end of a thousand years of history.
~ Hugh Gaitskell
If you look at the history of the American capital market, there's probably no innovation more important than the idea of generally accepted accountancy principles.
~ Lawrence Summers
The idea that human beings can make history, that is something quite unique to the modern West.
~ Pankaj Mishra
More than any other figure in our history [Tomas] Jefferson is responsible for the idea of American exceptionalism.
~ Gordon S. Wood
I like the idea of a big caesura between the narratives, a space which readers can fill in with their own speculative history.
~ Jonathan Coe
I do hope your Christmas has had a little touch of Eternity in among the rush and pitter patter and all. It always seems such a mixing of this world and the next - but that after all is the idea!
~ Evelyn Underhill
Creativity gives hope that there can be a worthwhile idea.
~ Edward de Bono