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To have a great idea, have a lot of them. -- Thomas A. Edison
I ran into Isosceles. He had a great idea for a new triangle! -- Woody Allen
A healthful hunger for a great idea is the beauty and blessedness of life. -- Jean Ingelow
A mediocre idea that generates enthusiasm will go further than a great idea that inspires no one. -- Mary Kay Ash
A good idea will keep you awake during the morning, but a great idea will keep you awake during the night. -- Marilyn vos Savant
Exhilaration is that feeling you get just after a great idea hits you, and just before you realize what's wrong with it. -- Rex Harrison
The Great Idea in advertising is far more than the sum of the recognition scores, the ratings and all the other superficial indicators of its success; it is in the realm of myth, to which measurements cannot apply. -- Leo Bogart
A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest; Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art. -- Benjamin Disraeli
You still stand watch, O human star, burning without a flicker, perfect flame, bright and resourceful spirit. Each of your rays a great idea - O torch which passes from hand to hand, from age to age, world without end. -- Karel Capek
Life is not an easy matter... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above weakness, above all kinds of perfidy and baseness. -- Leon Trotsky
All great ideas are dangerous. -- Oscar Wilde
A great idea is not enough. -- Rosabeth Moss Kanter
Great ideas originate in the muscles. -- Thomas A. Edison
We have always been shameless about stealing great ideas. -- Steve Jobs
Great ideas need landing gear as well as wings. -- Charles Douglas Jackson
Every great idea is on the verge of being stupid. -- Michel Gondry
Dear Young People, do not be mediocre; the Christian life challenges us with great ideals! -- Pope Francis
Many great ideas go unexecuted, and many great executioners are without ideas. One without the other is worthless. -- Tim Blixseth
You ask me if I keep a notebook to record my great ideas. I've only ever had one. -- Albert Einstein
Creepy people do the things that decent people want to do, but have decided are not a great idea. -- Mike Birbiglia
Nothing, believe me, nothing is more satisfying to me personally than getting a great idea and then beatin' it to death. -- David Letterman
I think a badly crafted, great idea for a new film with a ton of spelling mistakes is just 100 times better than a well-crafted stale script. -- Alexander Payne
A great idea is usually original to more than one discoverer. Great ideas come when the world needs them. Great ideas surround the world's ignorance and press for admission. -- Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward
A great idea is usually original to more than one discoverer. Great ideas come when the world needs them. Great ideas surround the world's ignorance and press for admission. -- Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward
Accessing capital to start a business can be a daunting process, especially for entrepreneurs who start out with a great idea, but have no real familiarity with the business world. -- Gavin Newsom
I think having a great idea is vastly overrated. I know it sounds kind of crazy and counterintuitive. I don't think it matters what the idea is, almost. You need great execution. -- Felix Dennis
Research your idea. See if there's a demand. A lot of people have great ideas, but they don't know if there's a need for it. You also have to research your competition. -- Magic Johnson
It is not short of amazing, the power of a great idea to weld men together. There was in it a peculiar, intense, vital spirit if you will, that I have never felt before in any strike. -- Ray Stannard Baker
I am spellbound by the plays of Shakespeare. And I am spellbound by the second law of thermodynamics. The great ideas in science, like the Cro-Magnon paintings and the plays of Shakespeare, are part of our cultural heritage. -- Alan Lightman
Just as he who gives his life to serve a great idea is admirable, he who avails himself of a great idea to serve his personal hopes of glory and power is abominable, even if he too risks his life. -- Jose Marti
I think there's a number of pillars to success. One is you've got to have a great idea. The other is you've got to have a constituency, you've got to have finance, and you've got to be able to raise awareness. -- Jeremy Gilley
The Internet has really democratized ideas. There are no real gatekeepers any more, because if you have a great idea, and you put it online, people will find it and it will get in front of who it needs to get in front of. -- Justin Halpern
No great idea in its beginning can ever be within the law. How can it be within the law? The law is stationary. The law is fixed. The law is a chariot wheel which binds us all regardless of conditions or place or time. -- Emma Goldman
You need a great idea, but then you've got to carry it through. If you get it right, you're going to be a critical success. But not everyone who works hard gets it right, or has the success they deserve: there's an element of luck. -- Ian Rankin
Now look, you built a factory and it turned into something terrific or a great idea, God Bless, keep a big hunk of it. But part of the underlying social contract is you take a hunk of that and paid forward for the next kid who comes along. -- Elizabeth Warren
I believe with all my heart that America remains 'the great idea' that inspires the world. It is a privilege to be born here. It is an honor to become a citizen here. It is a gift to raise your family here, to vote here, and to live here. -- Arnold Schwarzenegger
You may love football, but that doesn't mean you have any business trying to play the sport. It's the same thing with filmmaking... everybody has a great idea for a movie, but do you have the stamina to get good at your craft and deal with how heartbreaking it is? -- Adam Green
Life is short, youth is finite, and opportunities endless. Have you found the intersection of your passion and the potential for world-shaping positive impact? If you don't have a great idea of your own, there are plenty of great teams that need you - unknown startups and established teams in giant companies alike. -- Justin Rosenstein
The founder of Dell found ways of delivering Hewlett Packard's most profitable products for much lower prices but forgot to deliver their quality so within a few years had fallen behind again. Ideas need constant renewal. A great idea will never be perfect and will never work perfectly in all markets and all seasons. -- Max McKeown
I feel I'm able to serve my customer by knowing what she or he wants. One of the ways I'm able to do this is through my website, and email: people give me great ideas, tell me what they want, what they don't want. It's really instrumental, and helps me stay in touch with people. -- Kathy Ireland
You cannot imagine what sorrow and anger seize one's whole soul when a great idea, which one has long and piously revered, is picked up by some bunglers and dragged into the street, to more fools like themselves, and one suddenly meets it in the flea market, unrecognizable, dirty, askew, absurdly presented, without proportion, without harmony, a toy for stupid children. -- Fyodor Dostoevsky
In the movies, you want a good story and characters that are honest, but you are also looking for a good director who can lead the ship. That's how we look at business. Everybody has a great idea for a start-up, and so do their relatives, and they tell me, 'You gotta build it.' I say, 'I have to believe in it.' -- Ashton Kutcher
Every great idea starts out as a blasphemy. -- Bertrand Russell
Just one great idea can completely revolutionize your life. -- Earl Nightingale
It all starts with a great idea and teamwork. -- Garrett Camp
Great things are done by devotion to one idea. -- John Henry Newman
Behind every great idea is someone saying "It won't work" -- John C. Maxwell
The idea of licking stamps seemed great fun for me. -- Moon Unit Zappa
I think a duet with Janet is a great idea. -- Paula Abdul
The opposite of every great idea is another great idea. -- Niels Bohr
All good management is the expression of one great idea -- Robert Heller
A great idea solves multiple problems at the same time. -- Shigeru Miyamoto
Great execution towards a terrible idea will get you nowhere. -- Sam Altman
Exhilaration is that feeling you get just after a great idea -- Rex Harrison
Every great idea emerges out of a process of trial-and-error experimentation. -- Scott D. Anthony
A great idea is simply the combination of many good ideas. -- John C. Maxwell
Free speech is a great idea, but were in a war. -- Lindsey Graham
The great masterpiece of Dada was the idea of having fun. -- Marty Rubin
The idea that cinema can be dangerous is a great idea. -- Michael Moore
Any idea's a great idea as long as it tastes great, -- Homaro Cantu
To get a great idea, come up with lots of them. -- Thomas A. Edison
I didn't just get an idea. I got a great idea. -- Richelle Mead
Things should all be moving toward the expression of a great idea. -- Robert Henri
Community policing is a great idea. It's worked in the Hoosier state. -- Mike Pence
A great scientist is more open to a new idea than almost anybody. -- Joss Whedon
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The beauty of a great idea lies in the art of using it. -- Thomas A. Edison
Great ideas can come from anywhere. There are no titles around an idea. -- Steve Stoute
The idea of being icons, I think it's great when you're 24. It's fantastic. -- Ian Astbury
A really great man has always an idea of something greater than himself. -- William Hazlitt
The truth is that there is no terror untempered by some great moral idea. -- Jean-Luc Godard
You have no idea how hard it is to live out a great romance. -- Wallis Simpson
Having a great idea is important. But having a great team is also important. -- Steve Case
Capitalism is a great idea in theory, but in practice it just doesn't work. -- Jeremy Hardy
We all have great ideas. No one ever says, "I've got this terrible idea." -- Alexis Ohanian
Adele is great because she promotes the idea of being happy as you are. -- Martine McCutcheon
Dress is the great business of all women, and the fixed idea of some. -- Alphonse Karr
When you have a great idea, and don't rush it, things can work itself out. -- Raheem Jarbo
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The great idea is the one that is either saleable or is worthy of imitation. -- Amit Kalantri
Just one great idea can change your life dramatically. Look for it. It's there somewhere! -- Ernie J Zelinski
The idea of vegetarianism is of immense value; it is based on great reverence for life. -- Rajneesh
It is always delightful when a great and beautiful idea proves to be consonant with reality. -- Albert Einstein
Great execution is at least 10 times more important and a 100 times harder than a good idea" -- Sam Altman
The idea of hearing, 'Great gig, man,' one more time just turns my stomach over. -- John Lydon
I see people as the nucleus of a great idea that hasn't come to be yet. -- Richard Pryor
Sometimes even hearing a bad idea is a great way to get to a good idea. -- Charlie Day
My idea of heaven is a great big baked potato and someone to share it with. -- Oprah Winfrey
I think the institution of marriage is a great idea, but for me it's just an idea. -- Lara Flynn Boyle
Bitcoin, generally, is a great idea. Keeping wallets on smartphones is the worst idea of the decade -- John McAfee
The whole process of writing a novel is having this great, beautiful idea and then spoiling it. -- Diane Johnson
There's something great about the idea of working the land and living communally. That's healthy. That's good. -- Paul Rudd
The day we dispose of the idea of disposability will be a great one for the planet. -- Alex Shoumatoff
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What is a great life if not a youthful idea executed by a man of mature years. -- Alfred de Vigny
Great American art needs the idea of uninterrupted spaces, like a loft, which itself is something very American. -- Renzo Piano
A great idea can change the world; but to change the universe, men need even much greater ideas! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
The great painter has something to say. He does not paint men, landscapes, or furniture; but an idea. -- Robert Henri
Any film that supports the idea that things can be changed is a great film in my eyes. -- Wim Wenders
Building a business is not rocket science, it's about having a great idea and seeing it through with integrity. -- Richard Branson
There's an idealization of being an entrepreneur, but the most important thing is to have a really great idea. -- Dustin Moskovitz
The most brilliant idea, with no execution, is worth $20. The most brilliant idea takes great execution to be worth $20,000,000. -- Derek Sivers
It is pleasant to be admitted into the birth-chamber of a great idea destined to be translated into action. -- Augustine Birrell
Prior to [streaming], the idea of sitting down and watching a show every week seemed like a great idea. -- Tom Riley
Any idea can be a great idea if you think differently, dream big and commit to seeing it realized -- Richard Branson
No great idea in its beginning can ever be within the law. How can it be within the law? -- Emma Goldman
This happens to me: I have this great idea and then I make the mistake of telling someone else. -- Scott Adams
Not only is it a great concept and a great idea -- helping people -- it's good pizza too! -- Matt Lauer
You think you have this great idea that everyone's going to come join, but that's not how it works. -- Sam Altman
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There is some truth to the idea that, in the fields of science, individual contributions of great significance are possible. -- Charles H. Townes
The idea that creative endeavor and mind-altering substances are entwined is one of the great pop-intellectual myths of our time. -- Stephen King
Truthfully, the hardest part about fashion is not the vision or one great idea, but the execution of each aspect. -- Monika Chiang
I should have been glad to acquire some sort of idea of Hindu theology, ... but the difficulties were too great. -- Mark Twain
One of the great things about wrestling is how it interrogates this silly idea that you have one authentic self. -- John Darnielle
Being a writer in Hollywood is like going to Hitler's Eagle Nest with a great idea for a bar mitzvah. -- David Mamet
The most powerful force in the world is a big idea- if it is the hands of a great entrepreneur. -- Bill Drayton
Critics are not creators. They rarely write great novels, invent new technologies, or come up with a great business idea. -- Jacqueline Leo
This is the one great idea to understand that our power is already ours, our salvation is already within us. -- Swami Vivekananda
One key to entrepreneurial success is to get a great group of people around you who believe in your idea. -- Richard Branson

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