Top 165 Good Idea Quotes

Words matter. These are the best Good Idea Quotes from famous people such as Tiny Tim, Ileana D’Cruz, Francesca Annis, Alison Sweeney, Yao Ming, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

In order to have a TV series, you have to have a good i

In order to have a TV series, you have to have a good idea for the story.
Tiny Tim
When I first started out in Telugu cinema, I signed anything and everything that came my way. I was 18, was immature, and it felt like a good idea that ‘Oh, they are paying me a good amount of money.’ I was young, naive; I had zero ambition, and honestly, it wasn’t my calling.
Ileana D’Cruz
The biggest privilege I’ve had in my life is being able to make a choice. If you make a choice, it can’t be a wrong choice because it seemed like a good idea at the time.
Francesca Annis
I take Sudafed to combat my congestion, so I always carry some with me because I like to be prepared and make sure I’m ready whenever symptoms strike. It’s also a really good idea to figure out what your triggers are.
Alison Sweeney
Fortune cookies are a good idea. If the message is positive, it can make your day a little better.
Yao Ming
When our markets work, people throughout our economy benefit – Americans seeking to buy a car or buy a home, families borrowing to pay for college, innovators borrowing on the strength of a good idea for a new product or technology, and businesses financing investments that create new jobs.
Henry Paulson
You’ll find boredom where there is the absence of a good idea.
Earl Nightingale
Raising taxes in an economic downturn is not a good idea.
Martha McSally
I thought incorporating Columbus and Platte County into the 1st District was a good idea.
Jeff Fortenberry
Studies on cherries, raspberries and strawberries suggest that most of their nutrition is retained when they’re frozen, so it’s a good idea to keep some in the freezer.
Michael Greger
My father has a book where, ever since I started playing games… he wrote down the games that I played in. And then, when I did my website, we thought that was a really good idea, that people can keep track of my games.
Petr Cech
Whether that’s from watching shows on HGTV, or magazines, or looking through Pinterest, you really have to have a good idea on what exactly it is that you like and what your style is.
Christina Anstead
I guess the real reason that my wife and I had children is the same reason that Napoleon had for invading Russia: it seemed like a good idea at the time.
Bill Cosby
I have a pretty good idea of what I am not good at and have it front and centre of my consciousness every minute I am doing it.
Meryl Streep
There’s a thing in comedy where you take one step into a bad idea, but if you take 10, then it becomes a good idea again.
Jonathan Krisel
From my training I can get a good idea of what I’m capable of.
Paula Radcliffe
It’s not a good idea to put your wife into a novel; not your latest wife anyway.
Norman Mailer
Generally speaking, I think it’s a good idea to stay conscious of any kind of energy or emotion that you’re generating, whether it’s at the end of a work day or just in your everyday life.
Brent Sexton
During a time of war, we ask our troops to give their best even to the point of sacrificing their own lives. When compared against that, how much of a sacrifice is it for a president to engage in a possibly contentious debate with Congress about whether military action is a good idea?
Tim Kaine
There’s always a booming market somewhere in tech – you just have to find a good idea for that market.
Chieh Huang
As everyone knows, tips constitute the bulk of a waiter’s or waitress’s income. But they are also optional, at least in theory. Does it really seem like a good idea to make someone’s salary so susceptible to customers’ whims on a given day – or whether any customers happen to show up at all?
Stephen J. Dubner
Constantly travelling means I don’t always get to eat well – so it’s probably a good idea for me to do some exercise.
Eliza Doolittle
Be willing to get fired for a good idea.
Spike Jonze
I really want to get into designing my own business suit. I’ve designed a couple suits for myself that I’ve worn in the past, and I have a good idea of what I want and need to use.
Ryan Lochte
I think to downplay a woman’s role in sports is not a good idea because a lot of women love sport, whether they watch it, report on it or work on a team.
Ricky Stenhouse Jr.
It’s just like heirloom tomatoes; this is heirloom music. We used to have all kinds of diversity in our poultry, in our vegetables, in our fruits, and slowly but surely the monoculture beast comes in. I’m saying that’s not a good idea. And if it means that I gotta do it on my own, then I do it on my own.
Taj Mahal
Sex in space is not just a good idea, it’s survival.
Vanna Bonta
The chances of a bank going out of business are extremely slim, but it’s always a good idea to spread around major sums so every penny is backed by insurance.
Suze Orman
I had sold products in flea markets before and I thought a cleaning product would be a good idea. So, in 2006, I came up with the ShamWow! I had seen this type of product at fairs, but it wasn’t well marketed. And from there, I went to this factory in Germany that made them for me.
Vince Offer
Acting on a good idea is better than just having a good idea.
Robert Half
There’s this famous observation that I totally believe: Great startup ideas are the ones that lie in the intersection of the Venn diagram of ‘is a good idea’ and ‘looks like a bad idea.’ So you want most people to think it’s a bad idea and thus not compete with you until you get giant. But for it to secretly be good.
Sam Altman
I'm used to being surrounded by really smart 22-year-ol

I’m used to being surrounded by really smart 22-year-old students who have no problem saying that something I suggested is not a very good idea.
Harold E. Varmus
It never seems like a good idea to do something that’s way out there. But usually, the thing that’s way out there is where we are heading.
Nancy Dubuc
Do you think it’s a good idea to be sarcastic about slavery?
Angela Rye
I always wanted to write novels, even before I had read a lot of novels or had a very good idea of what they were.
Elif Batuman
Nowadays, my mood ungoverned, I’m free to think the most outrageous things, such as: might it not be a good idea to insist that drug companies give their preparations names that tell the user what they really do?
Will Self
I think starting in anime, like I did, gave me a good idea of how to approach games that come from Japan. Japanese developers can be very different from companies here in the western market.
Laura Bailey
‘Paycheck,’ I thought, was a really, really good idea. I never got an opportunity, unfortunately, to read the novel, but I loved the idea of how to deal with intellectual properties. I just don’t know that we necessarily got to the heart of that particular idea. I think it became more of a chase movie than anything else.
Joe Morton
The decision to go to the moon is now appreciated and associated with President Kennedy’s speech, but somebody else had told him it was a good idea. It turned out to be a good commitment, but it was a unique situation.
Buzz Aldrin
Painting is something that requires a lot of time – it’s not just one good idea out of art school.
Caio Fonseca
In general, I never think it is a good idea to try to recreate past successes. You have to strike out on your own, for better or worse.
Mary Beard
I have found out one thing and that is, if you have an idea, and it is a good idea, if you only stick to it you will come out all right.
Cecil Rhodes
If you start with a good idea, you can encapsulate it in a phrase and explain it. I like high-concept films. Everyone can get hold of it. I don’t think there’s any harm in that at all.
Jane Campion
But everyone, including ethnic minorities, should be worried about how anti-racism is becoming weaponized across the political spectrum – how a lot of people in politics think it’s a good idea to exaggerate the problem of racism.
Munira Mirza
I tell everybody, ‘If you want to get to know me, if you listen to those three records, you’ll have a really good idea.’ They were released at different time periods in my life, and those are the things I was going through.
Brantley Gilbert
I like an occasional glass of wine, though I don’t drink before a shoot or a show – blotchy skin is not a good idea, however good your make-up artist.
Jourdan Dunn
I don’t focus much on video. I watch here and there, perhaps two or three of my opponent’s fights. That gives me a good idea of his style.
Canelo Alvarez
When you have a good idea, the money flows.
Gavin Newsom
When I go in the studio with Post, I have a really good idea of what he’s going to gravitate to, what we can work with.
Frank Dukes
We assume that healthy habits are a good idea, but in and of themselves, they are not the reason we’re going to be active at age 95 or 100. The body works in more complex ways.
Ron Howard
If it’s a good idea, go ahead and do it. It’s much easier to apologize than it is to get permission.
Grace Hopper
‘Eureka’ moments are very, very rare in my experience. It normally takes several weeks of experiments to tease out the truth, even when you have a really pretty good idea of what is going on.
Tim Hunt
I met Rajini sir after ‘Jigarthanda,’ and he said he liked my film. He told me I could approach him whenever I had a good idea. I had never thought he would listen to scripts from new directors. After the meeting, I wondered, ‘Should I take his words seriously or not? Should I write something?’
Karthik Subbaraj
I’ve never seen bad drawing destroy a good idea. On the other hand, I’ve never seen a good drawing save a bad idea.
Paul Conrad
I have a good idea of how lucky we are to be growing up in Canada.
Patrick Chan
If we’re going to forecast the business cycle, surely it is a good idea to know the business cycle. Sounds reasonable, but it’s not that easy.
Edgar Fiedler
Anything that puts money back in the pockets of the consumer, however you choose to do it, is a good idea.
Judith McKenna
When you come to L.A. as a kid with your mom, you’re lured into doing things that you think are cool and fun and a good idea, but they’re cheesy and awful. And recording a pop single was one of them.
Penn Badgley