Best Great Idea Quotes

Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.

The best revenge is the massive success.

A good idea will keep you awake during the morning, but a great idea will keep you awake during the night.

You ask me if I keep a notebook to record my great ideas. I’ve only ever had one.

Free speech is a great idea, but were in a war.

If I find a great idea, I work on it at the beginning, then bring in other people to make things work. Actually, I’ve always been good at getting out of work.

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.

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.

Even though you’re a member of the wrong party, you’ve got some great ideas.

I’m always looking for directors who are very strong, they have great ideas, but on the other hand, that need help. It means they rely mostly on my eyes.

Architecture has recorded the great ideas of the human race. Not only every religious symbol, but every human thought has its page in that vast book.

Style and Structure are the essence of a book; great ideas are hogwash.

If you’re not ready to be in a relationship, going out with someone much younger than you is probably a great idea, because you both can have a decent experience and hopefully nobody will end up feeling cheated when it ends.

Ridicule has historically proven itself a rickety fence for great ideas.

A dialogue sounds like a great idea, but we don’t think the government actually wants one. The royal family lied in 2011 when they said they were ready for dialogue. Now we have suffered even more and we will not give up our rights.

My parents’ long and happy marriage was a great ideal to live up to, but a tough one.

Dear Young People, do not be mediocre; the Christian life challenges us with great ideals!

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.

One doesn’t begin to be a Christian because of an ethical decision or a great idea, but rather because of an encounter with an event, with a Person, who gives new horizons to life, and with that, a decisive orientation.

Exhilaration is that feeling you get just after a great idea hits you, and just before you realize what’s wrong with it.

Everybody has his own great ideas about what my art should be. But I can do whatever I like and there aren’t many constraints to the way I work, whether I’m using a brush with ink or paint.

A great idea should always be left to steep like loose tea leaves in a teapot for a while to make sure that the tea will be strong enough and that the idea truly is a great one.

To die for one’s great ideas is glorious – and easy. The horror is to outlive them. That is our worst capability.

Like many great ideas in biology, the idea implicating infectious causation in chronic diseases, though simple, has far-reaching implications. It is so simple and so significant, that one would think it would have been recognized by many and would be the starting point for any discussion on the causes of disease. Not yet.

Being creative and playing with your content during the holidays is a great idea. But straying too far from your fundamental brand (from address, logo, etc.) can be a dangerous game. Your recipients need to be able to recognize you during this busy time of year.

Many times, what people call ‘writer’s block’ is the confusion that happens when a writer has a great idea, but their writing skill is not up to the task of putting that idea down on paper. I think that learning the craft of writing is critical.

I think a duet with Janet is a great idea.

We are always looking for a grand program of action full of great ideas, when the thing is to begin by obeying the little ideas.

The opposite of every great idea is another great idea.

Children are great idealists, until the stupidity of their elders puts out the fires of the aspirations.

It was a great idea from my teammate Jamal Crawford. He kept telling me to jump over Spud, so we decided to call him and he was more than willing to participate with me. I just thank God for him.

When you get an idea, it’s not going to be a great idea until you push it. You’ve got to push it until it’s uncomfortable. And then you’ve got to ask yourself, ‘Does my project say to my audience what I want it to say?’

I think the institution of marriage is a great idea, but for me it’s just an idea.

The money to fund great things and innovations and programs is gone in our lifetime; it’s all gone to debt. So we won’t be able to solve global warming or have the transportation that we needed for the 21st century. We should be supporting people with great ideas, but it’s gone, and now it’s gotta be paid back with interest to banks in China.

I’d really like people to see me as a real actress, which I am, but they don’t. It’s hard to get them to see me as a musician, they just see me as a hanger-on to the Stones, which is not what I am at all. It’s a good idea, and if something like that would turn up I could do a whole television show. I’ve thought about playing a landlady, sort of a mad ’60s lady, this absolutely insane character. I would love it. It’s a great idea.