Bad Ideas Quotes

• The best way to have a good idea is to have a lot of ideas.

  Linus Pauling

  Motivational, Inspiring, Success

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

  Linus Pauling

  Ideas, Creative, Innovation

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• Nothing surpasses the beauty and elegance of a bad idea.

  Craig Reucassel

  Ideas, Elegance

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• Never underestimate the power of bad ideas. They must be refuted again and again.

  Llewellyn Rockwell

  Ideas, Underestimate, Again And Again

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• Sometimes even hearing a bad idea is a great way to get to a good idea.

  Charlie Day

  Ideas, Way, Hearing

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• If I have a thousand ideas and only one turns out to be good, I am satisfied.

  Alfred Nobel

  Fear, Failure, Creativity

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

  Jack Kemp

  Ideas, Way, Good Ideas

  "The Talk Show Party" by Pierre Atlas, www.realclearpolitics.com. June 2, 2009.

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• Anything worth doing always starts as a bad idea.

  Leigh Bardugo

  Ideas, Anything Worth Doing

  Leigh Bardugo (2013). “Siege and Storm: Chapters 1-5”, p.101, Macmillan

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• After you produce you can select. you can curate. you can censor. But for now, have bad ideas, lots and lots of bad ideas.

  Seth Godin

  Ideas, Select, Produce

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• The thing about plummetting downhill at fifty miles an hour on a snack platter - if you realize it's a bad idea when you're halfway down, it's too late.

  Rick Riordan

  Snacks, Ideas, Too Late

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• We should invest in people not ideas. A good idea is often destroyed by bad people and good people can always make a bad idea better.

  Simon Sinek

  Ideas, People, Should

  Twitter post from Dec 18, 2013

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• Ideas have consequences and bad ideas can have lethal consequences.

  George Weigel

  Ideas, Consequence

  George Weigel (2015). “Letters to a Young Catholic”, p.46, Basic Books

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• Bad ideas flourish because they are in the interest of powerful groups.

  Paul Krugman

  Powerful, Ideas, Groups

  "The people always pay" by Noam Chomsky, www.theguardian.com. January 21, 1999.

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• There's no such thing as good ideas and bad ideas. There are only your own ideas and other people's. If you want someone to like your idea, tell him he said it first last week and you just remembered it.

  Scott Adams

  Ideas, People, Want

  Scott Adams (2007). “Stick to Drawing Comics, Monkey Brain!: Cartoonist Explains Cloning, Blouse Monsters, Voting Machines, Romance, Monkey G ods, How to Avoid Being Mistaken for a Rodent, and More”, p.447, Penguin

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• There's no better tonic for other people's bad ideas, than to think for oneself.

  Michael R. Burch

  Thinking, Ideas, People

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• Nothing dies harder than a bad idea.

  Julia Cameron

  Ideas, Harder, Dies

  Julia Cameron (2012). “The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity”, p.13, Souvenir Press

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• I'm gonna see how this works out, but I think it's a bad idea.

  Joe Teti

  Thinking, Ideas, Work Out

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• The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret of outward success.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Inspirational, Life, Success

  Henry Ward Beecher, William Drysdale (1887). “Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit”

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• Fail fast. Fail often... The most talented people in the world have bad ideas. That's a good thing to learn.

  Rashida Jones

  Ideas, People, World

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• You can never discard too many bad ideas.

  Ashleigh Brilliant

  Ideas

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• Books won't stay banned. They won't burn. Ideas won't go to jail. In the long run of history, the censor and the inquisitor have always lost. The only sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas. The source of better ideas is wisdom. The surest path to wisdom is a liberal education.

  Alfred Whitney Griswold

  Education, Running, Fear

  "Quora: What Does Freedom of Speech Mean?". www.yahoo.com. May 13, 2017.

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• And I tell you one thing, if the primates that we came from, had know that someday politicians would come out of the gene pool, they would have stayed up in the trees and written evolution off as a bad idea.

  John Sheridan

  Ideas, Tree, Evolution

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• Everything worthwhile is a good idea, but did you ever notice there is more bad ideas that will work than there is good ones?

  Will Rogers

  Ideas, Worthwhile, Good Ideas

  Will Rogers (1982). “Will Rogers' Weekly Articles: The Roosevelt Years, 1933-1935”

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• It was possible, he understood, for a person's life to become just a long series of mistakes, and that the end, when it came, was just one more mistake in a chain of bad choices. The thing was, most of these mistakes were actually borrowed from other people. You took their bad ideas, and for whatever reason, made them your own.

  Justin Cronin

  Mistake, Ideas, Long

  "The Passage". Book by Justin Cronin, 2010.

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• But I don't understand God. I don't understand how he could see the way people treat one another, and not chalk up the whole human race as a bad idea.

  Jim Butcher

  Race, Ideas, People

  Jim Butcher (2008). “Grave Peril: Book three of The Dresden Files”, p.154, Penguin

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