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If he ever had a bright idea it would be beginner's luck. -- William Lashner
Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together. -- Georg C. Lichtenberg
When writing poetry, it is not that produces a bright idea, but the bright idea that kindles the fire of. -- Cesare Pavese
Design and technology should be the subject where mathematical brainboxes and science whizzkids turn their bright ideas into useful products. -- James Dyson
It's difficult for a company to be anywhere interesting in a world that is so dominated by prototypes and great and bright ideas. -- Marcel Wanders
Creativity - like human life itself - begins in darkness... bright ideas are preceded by a gestation period that is interior, murky, and completely necessary. -- Julia Cameron
Whoever had the bright idea of putting Indiana Jones in a leather jacket and a fedora in the jungle ought to be dragged into the street and shot. -- Harrison Ford
The first rule of discovery is to have brains and good luck. The second rule of discovery is to sit tight and wait till you get a bright idea. -- George Polya
I don't know who had the bright idea of teaching pneumonia how to walk, but I'd like to find that dunderhead before he decides he wants to teach it how to drive. -- Ellen DeGeneres
Knowledge and ideas tend to be a bit like experience - nice, but not necessarily useful. Clear thinking, logical priorities and the ability to reason will beat bright ideas and unassisted experience everytime. -- Carroll Smith
We normally learn at least as much from our mistakes as we do from our successes. The best development driver/engineer I ever knew once told me that he reckoned that about 20% of his bright ideas worked. -- Carroll Smith
Instead of focusing on the amount of money lacking in your budget, focus on what you DO have: a willing spirit, an imagination filled with bright ideas, people who care about you and can perhaps help you in some way. These are the things that will enable you to do almost anything. -- Phil Keoghan
Trying to do good to people without God's help is no easier than making the sun shine at midnight. You discover that you've got to abandon all your own preferences, your own bright ideas, and guide souls along the road our Lord has marked out for them. You mustn't coerce them into some path of your own choosing. -- Therese of Lisieux
You have to listen to your own voice. Not your heart, not your instincts, not any of that self-permissive psycho-babble stuff. No, none of that. If it was just about instincts and bright ideas it wouldn't need to be a voice. It's about words. You hear them, read them, then you write. But mostly read. Read the bloody poems. -- Fleur Adcock
It's not just that Miers has zero judicial experience. It's that she's so transparently a crony/"diversity" pick while so many other vastly more qualified and impressive candidates went to waste. If this is President Bush's bright idea to buck up his sagging popularity--among conservatives as well as the nation at large--one wonders whom he would have picked in rosier times. Shudder. -- Michelle Malkin
Soul Gathers Force It is possible, when the future is dim, when our depressed faculties can form no bright ideas of the perfection and happiness of a better world,-it is possible still to cling to the conviction of God's merciful purpose towards His creatures, of His parental goodness even in suffering, still to feel that the path of duty, though trodden with a heavy heart, leads to peace. -- William Ellery Channing
Staring up at the sky on a bright, sunny day makes me dream and gives me ideas. -- Marc Jacobs
Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together. -- Georg C. Lichtenberg
New ideas need audiences like flowers need bees. No matter how bright and colorful, they will die unless others work to spread them -- Simon Sinek
Ours is the age of substitutes: instead of language, we have jargon: instead of principles, slogans: and, instead of genuine ideas, bright ideas. -- Eric Bentley
Ours is the age of substitutes: Instead of language we have jargon; instead of principles, slogans; and instead of genuine ideas, bright suggestions. -- Eric Bentley
The lampshade on my head is for my bright ideas. I won't be able to convey them until Monday, when my curtain gets out of the dry cleaners. -- Bauvard

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