Bad Ideas Quotes
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The bad teacher imposes his ideas and his methods on his pupils, and such originality as they may have is lost in the second-rate art of imitation.
— Stephen Neill
New ideas can be good and bad, just the same as old ones.
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
I'm the king of bad ideas.
— Lisa Kessler
[A]s for my prediction that [the iPhone] would be a bad idea for Apple to pursue, anything can still happen. Time is a cruel mistress.
— John C. Dvorak
The only sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas.
— Alfred Whitney Griswold
To give you an idea how bad the American economy is, Mexico is now calling for a fence along the border. Stay on your side!
— Jay Leno
The idea of Ghost Stories is how to turn something bad into something that gives you an uplift.
— Chris Martin
The fear of saying something stupid (which stupid people never have) has censored far more good ideas than bad ones.
— Alain De Botton
In America, you're allowed to justify almost any kind of bigotry, sexism, or intolerance if you source it to God's big book of bad ideas.
— Bill Maher
I think of myself as a bad writer with big ideas, but I'd rather be that than a big writer with bad ideas.
— Michael Moorcock
After you produce you can select. you can curate. you can censor. But for now, have bad ideas, lots and lots of bad ideas.
— Seth Godin
I cannot abide red tape. It never strangles bad ideas, only good ones.
— Gillian Anderson
Mere absurdity has never prevented the triumph of bad ideas, if they accord with easily aroused fantasies of an existence freed of human limitations.
— Anthony Daniels
If you give people literacy, bad ideas can be attacked and experiments tried, and lessons will accumulate.
— Steven Pinker
All the creativity books in the world aren't going to help you if you're unwilling to have lousy, lame, and even dangerously bad ideas.
— Seth Godin
We should invest in people not ideas. A good idea is often destroyed by bad people and good people can always make a bad idea better.
— Simon Sinek
Bad writers are those who try to express their own feeble ideas in the language of good ones.
— Georg C. Lichtenberg
Unlike wine, bad ideas don't improve with age.
— Marty Rubin
Congress will always couple one bad idea with another, the better to 'offset' them.
— Jeffery Taylor
The web is just a device by which bad ideas travel around the globe at the speed of light.
— P. J. O'Rourke
I don't understand the change of hair ... Frankly, the fringe was a bad idea. It's not good.
— Karl Lagerfeld
Bad ideas are my favorite kind.
— V.E Schwab
Annie took another sip of the vodka, letting the alcohol seep through her system, turning bad ideas into good ones.
— Kevin Wilson
China is not a great idea: capitalism and a dictator. It's like the two worst possible things you could imagine together. It's a very bad idea.
— Fran Lebowitz
As far as bad ideas went, this stole the prize.
— Julia Quinn
Queen Victoria, one of our more frumpy Queen's. They're all frumpy aren't they? Because it's a bad idea when cousin's marry.
— Eddie Izzard
The survival value of intelligence is that it allows us to extinct a bad idea, before the idea extincts us.
— Karl Popper
I really think that people have to think safety; taking risks for higher yield is a bad idea once you're in late or latish middle age.
— Paul Krugman
I feel obligated to tell you that adventures are, on a whole, stunningly bad ideas, best avoided at all costs.
— Michael McClung
There will never be a perfectly good or bad world, because the very idea is a contradiction in terms.
— Swami Vivekananda
The good news is we had this idea of cloud computing. The bad news is we were 10 years too early.
— Marc Andreessen
I like the idea that people get engaged thinking about design, about creativity. I don't see how it could possibly be bad.
— Susan Orlean
I've never been quarantined. But the more I look around the more I think it might not be a bad idea.
— George Carlin
But the pendulum has swung way out of whack here. A bad idea is still bad, and the pivot happy world we're in today feels suboptimal.
— Sam Altman
[David Harker asked: Dr Pauling, how do you have so many good ideas?]
Well David, I have a lot of ideas and throw away the bad ones. — Linus Pauling
Well David, I have a lot of ideas and throw away the bad ones. — Linus Pauling
In a rising market, enough of your bad ideas will pay off so that you'll never learn that you should have fewer ideas.
— Daniel Kahneman
It's not that I don't know that it's a bad idea. It's that, lately, bad ideas have a particular hold over me.
— Holly Black
Really bad ideas, but they're ideas. Today
— Andy Weir
I deliberately state my age because it keeps me honest. I think lying is a bad idea. Sooner or later, someone's going to catch you.
— Rita Moreno
It's not the bad ideas that do you in, but the good ones.
— Charlie Munger
Countless women are alive today because of ideas stimulated by a design flaw in the Hubble Space Telescope.
— Neil DeGrasse Tyson
I'm willing to throw my body in front of the bus to stop bad ideas.
— Elizabeth Warren
It's occurred to me that our human values, our ideas of right and wrong, good and bad, evolved in simpler times, before there were machines.
— Herman Wouk
Evil is a really tough concept for me. The idea of a villain that is bad for bad's sake seems kind of absurd.
— Christopher McQuarrie
As Oscar Wilde should have said, when bad ideas have nowhere else to go, they emigrate to America and become university courses.
— Frederic Raphael
It's a very bad idea for scientific conclusions to be accepted because they fit with the political values of a group of researchers.
— Philip Kitcher
You can never discard too many bad ideas.
— Ashleigh Brilliant
Good ideas are a dime a dozen, bad ones are free.
— Douglas Horton
Worst ideas? Me? Whatever do you mean? There are no bad ideas.
— Christian Audigier
The Robertson family and bad ideas go together like biscuits and jam.
— Willie Robertson
Big companies have trouble with innovation. Innovation is about bad ideas, or ideas that look like bad ideas. That's the fundamental thing.
— Ben Horowitz
Take time to reflect, let ideas flow on their own schedule and let yourself have numerous bad ideas to inspire the good ones.
— Joanie Connell
I come from a family of teachers, and I believe ideas matter; the good ones deserve reverence, and the bad ones, defiance.
— Nancy Gibbs
The physical business of writing is unpleasant to me, but the psychic satisfaction of discharging bad ideas in worse English makes me forget it.
— H.L. Mencken
Wishful thinking isn't particularly bad. Without it, how would you paint happy ideas inside your mind? Don't be so cynical.
— B.A. Gabrielle
I'm not going to pontificate and tell you to execute your government at dawn, but it wouldn't be a bad idea.
— John Lydon
I use vaporizers a lot. It cuts down on the heat and the smoke. And for a singer that's not a bad idea.
— Willie Nelson
There are no bad ideas. Only bad executions.
— Meinos Kaen
Songs are like fish. You just gotta have your line in the water. And it's a bad idea to fish downstream from Bob Dylan.
— Arlo Guthrie
Null Spot the Destroyer still had an imagination full of bad ideas and a pocket full of stupid to spend.
— Bobby Adair
There are some people who know who I am but there are a lot of people that have no idea who I am - which is not to say that that's a bad thing.
— Jim Gaffigan
I have to say, this sounds like the worst idea in a thousand generations of bad ideas."
"You haven't heard all our ideas."
Luke & Bhindi Drayson — Aaron Allston
"You haven't heard all our ideas."
Luke & Bhindi Drayson — Aaron Allston
New ideas can be supremely bad ideas, and by the time people realize how bad they are, it is sometimes difficult to get rid of them.
— Alister E. McGrath
The typical eye sees the ten per cent bad of an idea and overlooks the ninety per cent good.
— Charles Kettering
Our ideas are for the most part like bad sixpences, and we spend our lives trying to pass them on one another.
— Samuel Butler
Good ideas ought not to be dressed up in bad prose.
— Barbara Minto
Somehow it seems to fill my head with ideas - only I don't exactly know what they are!
— Lewis Carroll
It takes so long to put a movie into production and finish it that anyone with a bad idea has time to give it to you before the movie is completed.
— Dave Foley
Usually after finishing a novel, I have a head full of bad ideas for the next one.
— Charles McCarry
Our minds are a battle ground between good and bad ideas; we are whatever side wins the battle
— Bangambiki Habyarimana
I do not care a fig for any woman that knows even what an author means.
— William Hazlitt
On the Richter scale of bad ideas, this had to be a ten.
— Robert Harris
It didn't fit her ideas of who was bad, and who was good, and what was a happy ending, and what wasn't.
— Jodi Lynn Anderson
Isn't that a bad idea?" "Bad ideas don't work.
— Amanda Heger
Good and bad aren't absolutes. They are beliefs, judgements, ideas based on limited knowledge as well as on the inclinations of our minds.
— Steve Hagen
Clutter is not just physical stuff. It's old ideas, toxic relationships and bad habits. Clutter is anything that does not support your better self.
— Eleanor Brown
I'm much more into bad, trashy Belgian techno. I like that much more than rock bands. The whole idea of a rock band is so archaic.
— Luke Haines
All good ideas start out as bad ideas, that's why it takes so long.
— Steven Spielberg
If you think of evil things, you are likely to do evil things and that will never pay you a pesewa. Think of good things and do good always!
— Israelmore Ayivor
Now that we all agree contraception is a bad idea, let's take a harder look at electricity and soap.
— Andy Borowitz
The trouble with innovation is that truly innovative ideas often look like bad ideas at the time.
— Ben Horowitz
All my favorite things start as bad ideas.
— Julie Murphy