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You can have brilliant ideas, but if you can't get them across, your ideas won't get you anywhere. -- Lee Iacocca
At Microsoft there are lots of brilliant ideas but the image is that they all come from the top - I'm afraid that's not quite right. -- Bill Gates
First of all, it was such an honor to be chosen. You had to be voted in by players and coaches that time. But having it in Hawai'i was a brilliant idea. -- Dan Fouts
The good ideas will survive. -- Quentin Tarantino
Why do all your brilliant ideas involve felonies? -- Kathy Reichs
I'm not a very good writer, but I'm an excellent rewriter. -- James A. Michener
Jimi... He was the gov'nor and that's it. He was brilliant, wasn't he? -- Ritchie Blackmore
The New York Times published the guest list on the front page. The masks were a brilliant concept. -- George Plimpton
A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism. -- Carl Sagan
Letâ??s never forget that whatever brilliant ideas you have or hear, that the opposite may also be true. -- Derek Sivers
...quantity is not necessarily synonymous with quality and brilliant ideas are not a function of the number of titles printed. -- Carlo M. Cipolla
A good idea will keep you awake during the morning, but a great idea will keep you awake during the night. -- Marilyn vos Savant
Men value things in three ways: as useful, as pleasant or sources of pleasure, and as excellent, or as intrinsically admirable or honorable. -- Mortimer Adler
Coldplay fans are the best in the world. If you like Coldplay then you're obviously very intelligent and good looking and all-around brilliant. -- Chris Martin
I cannot pretend to be impartial about the colours. I rejoice with the brilliant ones, and am genuinely sorry for the poor browns. -- Winston Churchill
When we have a brilliant idea, instead of making others think it is ours, why not let them cook and stir the idea themselves. -- Dale Carnegie
All of us, at some point in life, get brilliant ideas...only a few of us have the courage to take the next step. -- Manoj Arora
An excellent man, like precious metal, is in every way invariable; A villain, like the beams of a balance, is always varying, upwards and downwards. -- John Locke
At Microsoft there are lots of brilliant ideas but the image is that they all come from the top - I'm afraid that's not quite right -- Bill Gates
It still hasn't sunk in that I'm going to be in Coronation Street. Everything about the role is brilliant and I'm working with some great people. -- Richard Fleeshman
Manhattan, though, was an entirely different ballgame in a whole different kind of world, with a man who was brilliant and at the same time terribly charismatic. -- Mariel Hemingway
A lot of young filmmakers bring their movies to my dad because he always gives lots of good editing ideas and notes. He'd be a good film professor. -- Sofia Coppola
Success is hastened or delayed by one's habits. It is not your passing inspirations or brilliant ideas so much as your everyday mental habits that control your life. -- Paramahansa Yogananda
I saw brilliant ideas coming out of the [Chipko] movement that needed better articulation, that needed elaboration and systematic analysis. I just followed that and it's been very exciting. -- Vandana Shiva
You can have brilliant ideas, but if you can't get them across, your ideas won't get you anywhere. Lee Iacocca Love is the irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired. -- Mark Twain
The best thing I ever heard was in the '60s. I heard Jimi Hendrix play 'I Can Hear The Grass Grow' after a rehearsal, and it was brilliant. -- Roy Wood
It's only those exceptional and rare individuals who have brilliant ideas delivered to them by the muse, complete and gift wrapped. The rest of us have to work at it. -- Alan Moore
Whenever somebody comes up with a good idea, there's somebody else who has never had a good idea in his life who stands up and says, Oh, you can't do that. -- Tom Clancy
I have been working a lot, and I like it. And you know, it's hard for me not to. I guess I've been working a lot because I get to play with brilliant people. -- Charlize Theron
We're great, Jo and me. We're pals, and I guess sex has a lot to do with it. She's also brilliant at clearing a room. So protective, so devoted. I can't believe how much she loves me. -- Ronnie Wood
When I woke up Sunday morning at the Open and stepped outside and felt the wind and rain in my face, I knew I had an excellent chance to win if I just took my time and trusted myself. -- Tom Kite
A man can only lead when others accept him as their leader, and he has only as much authority as his subjects give to him. All of the brilliant ideas in the world cannot save your kingdom if no one will listen to them. -- Brandon Sanderson
If anything, it's a little intimidating because there's usually a lot of brilliant work and a lot of brilliant ideas out there that you wish you had thought of, or that you just admire for the originality of it or the difference from what you've been thinking of. -- Chris Wedge
Every so often in life, you encounter a brilliant idea. Usually, at least in my case, it's somebody else's idea. -- Jean Hanff Korelitz
What makes Johnny Depp so brilliant is you truly have no idea what kind of character he's going to play next. -- Alexa Vega
No matter how brilliantly an idea is stated, we will not really be moved unless we have already half thought of it ourselves. -- Mignon McLaughlin
Louise Frogley is a brilliant designer. I always find her wardrobe fittings really informative and creative. Together, you kick images and ideas around. -- Cate Blanchett
The original and brilliant idea of an MBA was the opportunity for students to study the theory and application of business and management principles. -- Warren Bennis
As I understand the American Founders, the most brilliant and daring idea they had was that it's possible to create a free society that could stay free forever. -- Os Guinness
When we're in the shower, when we're thinking about our idea - boy, does it sound brilliant. But the reality is that most of our ideas are actually terrible. -- Eric Ries
And as a filmmaker, I'm trying to unhook myself from this idea that unless you have a brilliant, long, enormously lucrative theatrical run, that your movie somehow failed. And I don't believe that. -- Josh Radnor
I'm a very private person, so I didn't like this idea of tweeting about me. And then I realized, 'Oh, this is actually a brilliant device in terms of interacting with the fans.' -- Darby Stanchfield
Artists need support, time and money to develop their ideas, and if people rip stuff off, you don't have to be that brilliant to figure out that you're ultimately going to affect the end product. -- John Polson
One of the most magical places on Earth is a small island in the Caribbean called Mustique. With brilliant beaches, warm water, and lush vegetation, this tiny green swath of land is my idea of paradise. -- Nina Garcia
Books are something social - a writer speaking to a reader - so I think making the reading of a book the center of a social event, the meeting of a book club, is a brilliant idea. -- Yann Martel
The ideas which now pass for brilliant innovations and advances are in fact mere revivals of ancient errors, and a further proof of the dictum that those who are ignorant of the past are condemned to repeat it. -- Henry Hazlitt
But I'm blessed to work with great people. I collaborate with brilliant stylists both here and in Paris. I work with a great design team. I really allow everyone to bring their ideas. I almost rely on them to inspire me. -- Marc Jacobs
People ask me about 'The Hurt Locker' a lot, and it's an incredible piece of filmmaking - as are 'Band of Brothers' and 'Platoon' and 'Full Metal Jacket' and 'Apocalypse Now.' But they're not necessarily true to war in a literal sense. What they are, really, are brilliant movies about Hollywood's idea of war. -- Sebastian Junger
It's a strange thing, this idea that for some reason, if a lot of people like what you're doing, it's therefore not very good. We use the phrase that a band have 'sold out.' Just so you know, if you're doing a gig and you sell all your tickets, that is a brilliant thing to do. -- James Corden
What you end up seeing when you look at history is that people who have been good at pushing the boundaries of possibility, and exploring those frontiers of good ideas and innovations, have rarely done it in moments of great inspiration. They don't just have a brilliant breakthrough idea out of nowhere and leap ahead of everyone else. -- Steven Johnson
There are many really stupid ideas that wind up being brilliant, if you can implement them. -- Gene Simmons
My principal business is giving commercial value to the brilliant - but misdirected - ideas of others.... -- Thomas A. Edison
David Bowie really played with ideas, and iconography and imagery. He's brilliant man. And a gentleman, too. -- Madonna Ciccone
Beautiful woman wrapped in chadors, with huge machine guns in their hands. Brilliant, shocking, amazingly contradictory images. They compelled me to deeply investigate these ideas. -- Shirin Neshat

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