Top 50 Good Ideas Quotes

All the good ideas I ever had came to me while I was milking a cow.

For good ideas and true innovation, you need human interaction, conflict, argument, debate.

Good ideas are like Nike sports shoes. They may facilitate success for an athlete who possesses them, but on their own they are nothing but an overpriced pair of sneakers. Sports shoes don’t win races. Athletes do.

I’ve come to realize that most good ideas are precisely the ones you can’t describe.

Don’t have good ideas if you aren’t willing to be responsible for them.

We wanted to be as expansive as possible to make sure we didn’t preclude some good ideas.

People are clamoring to hear good ideas as opposed to the lesser of two evils… Either the Democrats are going to win or the Republicans are going to win, but the losers are all of us out here as citizens that really do want meaningful change, and none of it’s happening. There’s no dialogue regarding meaningful change.

Directors sometimes have good ideas that I wished I’d had, not on rewriting but simply on staging.

Sometimes we’re tone-deaf in Washington, and we listen only to ourselves. We do not hear the cry of people who want answers, want action, want protection, and have some darn good ideas as to how to provide it if only we would listen.

It’s always the organizations that are resource constrained that come up with the good ideas to win.

On my walks, that’s when the good ideas come. The kind of hard, gritty work is when you’re sitting at the computer and it’s kind of intense and you’re kind of in super control of it – the walks are when you let go. That’s when the really big breakthroughs come in, and it’s very strange.

I like company lunches because I think going out wastes valuable time; plus, a lot of good ideas come up over lunch.

Reform is not for the short-winded. I’m committed to making sure the Senate is more than just a graveyard for good ideas.

I don’t think that the Left has a monopoly on bad ideas. I don’t think the Right has a monopoly on good ideas.

I’ve played under many managers – some fantastic, some average, and some not so good. Even if it’s not intentional, you log the good ideas and the bad ones.

I like being surrounded by good ideas. Every single time you walk past something you like, you get a blast of happy chemicals to the brain, and I like that.

Me and Miley just clicked. She has good ideas. She’s real creative.

I fancy that no good ideas upon that campaign will be mentioned at any time that did not receive their share of consideration by General Lee.

There are a lot of good ideas that could benefit from big media. You have a lot of companies that hit a wall and can’t get beyond a certain level. They need the infrastructure and distribution of a large company.

But I’m a big believer that government does not have a monopoly on good ideas.

There really was nothing like it at the time. We had good ideas for implementation, so we proceeded. I think it was an excellent solution to the reliability issues with existing search engines.

One of the biggest obstacles to making lots of money is not a lack of good ideas or opportunities or time, or that we’re too slovenly or stupid: it’s that we refuse to give ourselves permission to become rich.

I see good ideas on the Republican side as well as the Democratic side. You have to return civility and statesmanship to governance. If you don’t do that, it doesn’t matter what portfolio of issue you’re pushing, nothing is going to get done.

At a well-run company, good ideas are embraced no matter where they come from.

Making art, good art, is always a struggle. It can make you happy when you pull it off. There’s no better feeling. It’s beauteous. But it’s always about hard work and inspiration and sweat and good ideas.

I write totally spontaneously. I actually write fiction by hand – that always seems to startle people. I think the reason I do that is to bypass the thinking part of me and get to the more unconscious part, which is where all the good ideas seem to be.

There are many good ideas out there that never get an audience.

Whoever has a great idea, it doesn’t matter who it comes from. You just want to have as many good ideas as you can.

I love leaving the door open to good ideas. I love the collaborative swirl. I get charged by problem-solving, usually under some kind of stress – the sun is going down, and we have eight minutes, and we have to solve it. Great things come out of it.

In the past, it was easier to believe in my own effectiveness. If I worked hard, with good colleagues and good ideas, we could make a difference. But now, I sincerely doubt that.

I am always happy up a ladder with a paintbrush in my hand. And I wish I had more time to spend in the garden – not least because I get good ideas for writing when I’m out there.

In the housing projects, people talked of ways to reduce crime, relieve overcrowding, and they were good ideas that we plan to study, and possibly implement.

I bet the people who are in the auto industry right now have more than 10,000 good ideas about what might work and what we need to do is not come up with more good ideas. We need to go and test as many of those good ideas as possible.

I might be into writing… I’d like to try it someday. I always come up with some good ideas.

Good ideas are a dime a dozen, bad ones are free.

Einstein was a great advocate of the notion that good ideas look absurd at the beginning. Camus expressed a similar view.

As a scientist and successful businessman, I understand that no one has a monopoly on good ideas.

Good ideas are a dime a dozen. It’s what you do with them that counts.

Dressing up is inevitably a substitute for good ideas. It is no coincidence that technically inept business types are known as ‘suits’.

Every day, I tell myself, ‘It will be better if I spend more time on thinking about good ideas and working instead of watching TV or shopping.’

I was always pretty decent at fast stick work or doing stuff that seems impressive that’s not really; I was pretty tasteful and had good ideas musically. But I had a terrible sense of tempo, which is like being a blind painter. The conductor would just rip into me, and it lasted for years.

All good ideas arrive by chance.

Twice I let people talk me out of good ideas.

Having established that good ideas do indeed come in from the cold, start on the fringes and become mainstream, can we make any predictions about what the next move will be?

There’s no field of music which doesn’t have good ideas.

But with lots of good ideas, implementation is the key, and so we need to keep our eye on the ball as we go forward and make sure that people honor their pledges in terms of financial commitments, and that we actually use this money so that it makes a real difference.

I don’t hear record companies coming up with any good ideas or suggestions. Historically, if it ain’t their idea, it ain’t no good, so you got that to contend with.

Having really good ideas comes from being able to listen to everybody else and see what their ideas are, because they’re coming from a completely different place. That’s always been important. It’s part of being in a band.

Hundreds of people who’ve never written before send in ‘Dr. Who’ scripts. They may have good ideas, but what they fail to realise is that writing for TV is incredibly complicated. They have no idea how difficult it is and what the financial commitment is.

As a leader, I believe it’s important to have an open door with your staff. Those who want to learn and to grow in their careers will walk through that door and into your life. I encourage people to come and seek me out at ‘Frontline’ with good ideas, curiosity, and drive.