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True leadership isn't about having an idea. It's about having an idea and recruiting other people to execute on this vision. -- Leila Janah
I often find that having an idea in my head prevents me from doing something else. Working is therefore a way of getting rid of an idea. -- Jasper Johns
Sincerity is never having an idea of oneself. -- Nadine Gordimer
It's like this: The time between having an idea and its public launch is measured in days not months, weeks not years. -- Tim Bray
Entrepreneurship is not really building a product, it's not having an idea, it's not being in the right place at the right time. It's fundamentally company building. -- Eric Ries
What's great about making movies is the sort of additive process of bringing people together and having an idea and watching the idea be added to and at the end you have this thing. -- Laura Ziskin
You have no idea how fragile an actor's self-worth is. -- Elia Kazan
If an idea's worth having once, it's worth having twice. -- Tom Stoppard
My ideas are always better. We have an understanding in place. -- Lana Wachowski
All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea. -- Napoleon Hill
If you write songs you have an idea how they're going to sound. -- Fred Frith
If I don't have a model in front of me, I don't have an idea. -- Azzedine Alaia
When I have an idea, I'm like a pregnant woman. I just have to deliver. -- Abdolkarim Soroush
Men have as exaggerated an idea of their rights as women have of their wrongs. -- E. W. Howe
At every step the vast majority have expressed horror at the idea of an aggressive war. -- Paul Robeson
I have an ideas book at home with far more ideas than I will ever be able to write. -- Jennifer Rowe
There's an idealization of being an entrepreneur, but the most important thing is to have a really great idea. -- Dustin Moskovitz
You have to have an idea of what you are going to do, but it should be a vague idea. -- Pablo Picasso
Writer's block! It doesn't exist. You just long for ideas to go away so you have an idea of peace. -- Colm Toibin
I have this belief that if you have an idea, and you have to write it down to remember it, then it can't be a great idea. -- Tino Sehgal
If all ideas have to be bought, then you have an intellectually regressive system that will assure you have a highly knowledgeable elite and an ignorant mass. -- John Perry Barlow
Man never had an idea - man will never have an idea, except those supplied to him by his surroundings. Every idea in the world that man has came to him by nature. -- Robert Green Ingersoll
Democracy matters because it reflects an idea of equality and an idea of liberty. It reflects an idea of dignity, the dignity of the individual, the idea that each individual should have an equal vote, an equal say, in the formation of their government. -- Rory Stewart
The way Fatboy Slim layers motifs is the same as 18th-century baroque counterpoint. You have an idea, then you have an answer to the idea in another voice, then you have a counter idea accompanying the original idea, and you build up your texture like that. I'm really into Kruder and Dorfmeister at the moment, and they do the same thing. -- Charles Hazlewood
I'm loving the idea of having a baby -- Sabrina
The idea of having a steady job is appealing. -- Robin Williams
The great masterpiece of Dada was the idea of having fun. -- Marty Rubin
The idea of having Australians upset at me is just awful. -- Craig Ferguson
I kinda like the idea of having an album that's all me. -- J. Cole
Truth consists of having the same idea about something that God has. -- Joseph Joubert
The idea of having dreams that don't come true is really terrifying. -- Domhnall Gleeson
I'm mischievous. The idea of taking risks and having real-world consequences energizes me. -- Shepard Fairey
The very idea of having children brings out this deep revulsion in me. -- Valeria Lukyanova
Acting on a good idea is better than just having a good idea. -- Robert Half
The thing I hate about the film business, is having to pitch your idea. -- Crispian Mills
Having a great idea is important. But having a great team is also important. -- Steve Case
The idea of life having a purpose stands and falls with the religious system. -- Sigmund Freud
The idea of writer's block or not having inspiration is totally terrifying to me. -- Paul Dano
I like the idea of having a little bit of a mystery about me. -- Liana Liberato
Having the world's best idea will do you no good unless you act on it. -- Curtis Grant
The idea of having a large family, I definitely had a romantic notion of it. -- Jim Gaffigan
I hate that tabloid idea of anybody who is famous having to forfeit their privacy. -- Caitlin Moran
Today, people tend to credit me with having the original idea and made the first circuits. -- Jack Kilby
I just don't like the idea of having an operation to hold up the ageing process. -- Demi Moore
I've always thought that writing isn't really that hard. It's having a good idea that's hard. -- Lyle Lovett
I love jewellery, and the idea of having something you've created become tangible is really exciting. -- Nikki Reed
To die is poignantly bitter, but the idea of having to die without having lived is unbearable. -- Erich Fromm
If this is your idea of glamour, I'm having second thoughts about letting you make me over. -- Cassandra Clare
I'm done with the whole idea of having my own children. It doesn't seem like any fun. -- Katherine Heigl
I love the idea of the street vibe, having folks together, out in the street at midnight. -- Sean Paul
My idea of a good night has always been having a lovely meal and a proper conversation. -- Kirsty Gallacher
I don't like the idea of [having] a thick skin. I think we [should] be more childlike. -- Arianna Huffington
The whole process of writing a novel is having this great, beautiful idea and then spoiling it. -- Diane Johnson
The future may require not so much having a new idea as stopping having an old idea. -- Edwin Land
Your idea of fidelity is not having more than one man in bed at the same time. -- Frederic Raphael
I'm so drawn to the frontier mentality and that idea of having to figure everything out from scratch. -- Andrea Zittel
The idea of having to make constant reference to politics is anathema to my calling as a writer. -- Wole Soyinka
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The idea of a perfect vacation is not working or not having to work and having no appointments. -- Tom Welling
I gotta make a living somehow, and make ends meet. I accept the idea of having a retirement. -- Ted Leo
She was now drowning in that pool of desires without having any idea about the depth of it. -- Viraj J. Mahajan
I consider myself to be a romantic person, and I love the idea of having a soul mate. -- Mandy Moore
I'm having a vacation, and it's so beautiful, and maybe I'll never get another film idea in my life. -- Lars von Trier
Building a business is not rocket science, it's about having a great idea and seeing it through with integrity. -- Richard Branson
We need to give credence to the nonsexual relationships...the idea of having significant others instead of a significant other. -- Sasha Cagen
You have no idea how pleasant it is not to have any future. It's like having a totally efficient contraceptive. -- Anthony Burgess
The idea of sitting in a booth, and having someone pay me to sign autographs, seems so gross to me. -- DJ Qualls
I sort of love the idea of, you know, watching something and then having to wait for the next episode. -- J. J. Abrams
I never liked the idea of doing what a machine says. I hate having to salute something built in a factory. -- Philip K. Dick
This idea of having back-up plans is ingrained into us to make us believe that that's the smart thing to do. -- Lilly Singh
We talked about Tootsie, the idea in Tootsie is that a man becomes a better man for having been a woman. -- Sydney Pollack
You would have only seen a skittish young deer jumping through the forest, having no idea it was a little girl. -- Kellie Thacker
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The idea of a Chicago band that wanted to sing songs about California is really funny. Having never been to California. -- Bill Hader
Having a great idea for a product is important, but having a great idea for product distribution is even more important. -- Reid Hoffman
But there was something I liked about the idea of those seeds buried so deep having at least a chance to emerge -- Sarah Dessen
The idea that being human and having rights are equivalent - that rights are inherent - is unintelligible in a Darwinian world. -- Tom Stoppard
I think motherhood is just about instinct. I remember coming home from the hospital and having no idea what we were doing. -- Kourtney Kardashian
Think beyond the pain. Think beyond the difficulty. Commit to having one good idea every day. What new idea will you claim today? -- Mary Morrissey
I like the idea of having a paperless society.But to be paperless means you have to be so careful with your identity. -- Michelle Singletary
I don't think anybody came into the movie business to be unoriginal and plagiarising and not having an original idea in their brain. -- Jeremy Thomas
Today the earth is populated with billions of people desperately hoping to "get somewhere," but having no idea of where they're going. -- Neale Donald Walsch
Gear is the least important part of the equation. Having a vision and being able to articulate an idea visually are much more important. -- Paul Nicklen
People think innovation is just having a good idea but a lot of it is just moving quickly and trying a lot of things. -- Mark Zuckerberg
Having 'best friends' is - at least for me - as outdated and small-minded a concept as the idea of 'Sunday best clothes.' -- Julie Burchill
Putting your name on something and having no idea how it came about if someone else did all the work - that's not me. -- Drew Barrymore
Writing is just having a sheet of paper, a pen and not a shadow of an idea of what you are going to say. -- Francoise Sagan
The people who complain the loudest about never having an opportunity in life are usually the ones who have no idea what they really want. -- Dan Miller
But having had your bright, fresh, original idea, the really hard part is turning it into a successful product. That's what takes all the sweat. -- Trevor Baylis
I like it here in New York. I like the idea of having to keep eyes in the back of your head all the time. -- John Cale
The old idea of a composer suddenly having a terrific idea and sitting up all night to write it is nonsense. Nighttime is for sleeping. -- Benjamin Britten
When I was 14 I would pick up my brother's bass guitar, and I would just pound on it, having no idea how to play it. -- Steve Burns
The idea of having faith in Jesus has come to be totally isolated from being his apprentice and learning how to do what he said. -- Dallas Willard
There is a devilishly direct relationship between the significance of an idea and how nervous we become at the prospect of having to think about it. -- Alain de Botton
It is not a bad idea to get in the habit of writing down one's thoughts. It saves one having to bother anyone else with them. -- Isabel Colegate
Whenever I meet with nutritionists, we discuss the idea of having everything in moderation and that people should eat protein or fiber when they eat sugar. -- Dylan Lauren
Yes, we worship the idea of the "self-made man" - otherwise we'd go on strike against Bill Gates having all that money! We worship that idea. -- James Hillman
This idea holds out hope that the human race will prosper mightily in the years ahead-because ideas are having sex with each other as never before. -- Matt Ridley
I hate the idea of always having to interpret other people's ideas and thoughts and words, because I'm very independent and, I guess, a free thinker. -- Elizabeth Taylor
If there's unemployment, having the government help reduce that unemployment, increase employment directly is a pretty good idea. It's not driving out competition; it's not crowding out. -- Jeremy Grantham
I grew up not really having anything, so the idea that I can take care of my family and my friends now is a really cool bonus. -- Katy Perry
An unexamined idea, to paraphrase Socrates, is not worth having and a society whose ideas are never explored for possible error may eventually find its foundations insecure. -- Mark Van Doren
I don't wear glasses, so I like the idea of not having to put them on to watch a movie. It's a hard barrier to get beyond. -- Joseph Kosinski
Once upon a time, this idea of having a trained, disciplined, cultivated memory was not nearly so alien as it would seem to us to be today. -- Joshua Foer
I like the idea of being caught between things, always being a bit of an outsider, having an outside eye on things - almost like a Shakespearean fool. -- Riz Ahmed
I think the idea of having a game based on reality is compelling right off the bat because everyone has some experience with the subject of the game. -- Will Wright
I love the idea of having a kid who says, 'Yeah, of course I knew about Billie Holiday and Johnny Cash when I was nine years old.' -- Robbie Robertson
That's what being a front man is all about - the idea of having something supple underneath you, that machine that roars and can turn on a dime. -- Bruce Springsteen
I like the idea of having an old Gibson [guitar], but I don't have one. The Gibson has a different quality, but it's almost like you need both. -- Steve Young
I want to disabuse people of the idea that knowledge is power. Knowing how to get to Detroit is not the same thing as having the bus fare. -- Andrew Vachss
The idea of having to conform to someone else's ideal is unacceptable. I'm gonna be me. And if I can't be me, then I'd rather not do it. -- Lenny Kravitz
There's a joy in having the molecule of an idea, then testing it in front of audiences at secret shows that people only know about the night before. -- Mike Myers
I am addicted to hockey now. I've seen it on TV, but to be there? I had no idea that white people were having so much fun without me. -- J. B. Smoove
The thing is, in America, it just seemed ridiculous - I mean, the idea of having a hit record over there, ... It was just something you could never do. -- John Lennon
In politics, they found there were not enough females in the House of Commons, so they came up with the idea of shortlists having to have women on them. -- Gordon Taylor
We don't have enough Latinos on TV just getting cast in supporting roles; the idea of having your own show named after you seemed like such a long shot. -- Cristela Alonzo
As much as I'm drawn to writing about teenage girls, I like the idea of having the freedom to branch out and write about different ages, for different ages. -- Ann Brashares
School is basically about one point of view - the one the teacher has or the textbooks have. They don't like the idea of having different points of view,... -- Alan Kay
If you can imagine a man having a vasectomy without anesthetic to the sound of frantic sitar-playing, you will have some idea of what popular Turkish music is like. -- Bill Bryson

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