Quotes about Bad Ideas

The only sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas. Votes: 1

Republicans have nothing but bad ideas and Democrats have no ideas. Votes: 1

Worst ideas? Me? Whatever do you mean? There are no bad ideas. Votes: 1

You see a lot of good ideas or well-written scripts that are bad ideas. Votes: 1

I'm willing to throw my body in front of the bus to stop bad ideas. Votes: 1

If you give people literacy, bad ideas can be attacked and experiments tried, and lessons will accumulate. Votes: 1

As Oscar Wilde should have said, when bad ideas have nowhere else to go, they emigrate to America and become university courses. Votes: 1

Big companies have trouble with innovation. Innovation is about bad ideas, or ideas that look like bad ideas. That's the fundamental thing. Votes: 1

In a rising market, enough of your bad ideas will pay off so that you'll never learn that you should have fewer ideas. Votes: 1

In the long run of history, the censor and the inquisitor have always lost. The only sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas. Votes: 1

Stick around. I'm full of bad ideas. Votes: 0

You can never discard too many bad ideas. Votes: 0

I got some bad ideas in my head. Votes: 0

All of my bad ideas were always my best. Votes: 0

The only bad ideas are the ones never tried. Votes: 0

Islam, at the moment, is the motherlode of bad ideas. Votes: 0

Ideas have consequences and bad ideas can have lethal consequences. Votes: 0

Good ideas are a dime a dozen, bad ones are free. Votes: 0

Bad ideas flourish because they are in the interest of powerful groups Votes: 0

The Robertson family and bad ideas go together like biscuits and jam. Votes: 0

Keep an idea log where you write everything down, even the bad ideas. Votes: 0

Killing people because you don't like their ideas - it's a bad thing. Votes: 0

It's not the bad ideas that do you in, but the good ones. Votes: 0

New ideas can be good and bad, just the same as old ones. Votes: 0

All good ideas start out as bad ideas, that's why it takes so long. Votes: 0

Big minds have big ideas. Small minds use big ideas to justify bad ideas. Votes: 0

People can get into very bad habits of arguing ideas and shutting them down. Votes: 0

There's no better tonic for other people's bad ideas, than to think for oneself. Votes: 0

Good ideas come from bad ideas, but only if there are enough of them. Votes: 0

Never underestimate the power of bad ideas. They must be refuted again and again. Votes: 0

You can't have good ideas unless you're willing to generate a lot of bad ones. Votes: 0

Virtually all bad ideas come from universities, bad ideas that only survive when insulated from reality. Votes: 0

The Republicans are the party of bad ideas. The Democrats are the party of no ideas. Votes: 0

The trouble with innovation is that truly innovative ideas often look like bad ideas at the time. Votes: 0

A lot of good ideas are actually bad ideas because, since they sound good, everybody's already doing them. Votes: 0

Among all the nonsense, mistakes, and bad ideas we come up with, maybe some truth will sneak in. Votes: 0

To serve grand ideas with a major work is not bad, nor is it all there's to art. Votes: 0

Bad writers are those who try to express their own feeble ideas in the language of good ones. Votes: 0

When good ideas get put to bad use, it is the fault of the user, not the idea. Votes: 0

The way to get good ideas is to get lots of ideas and throw the bad ones away. Votes: 0

Nothing dies harder than a bad idea. And few ideas are worse than the ones we have about art. Votes: 0

The fear of saying something stupid (which stupid people never have) has censored far more good ideas than bad ones. Votes: 0

Fail fast. Fail often... The most talented people in the world have bad ideas. That's a good thing to learn. Votes: 0

The bad ideas kind of just drop out of the mix. You forget about them. The good ones stick around. Votes: 0

Expertise is great, but it has a bad side effect: It tends to create the inability to accept new ideas. Votes: 0

Leaders build the future with clays of the past. Every good moment gives them ideas; every bad moment gives them lessons. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I come from a family of teachers, and I believe ideas matter; the good ones deserve reverence, and the bad ones, defiance. Votes: 0

I think of myself as a bad writer with big ideas, but I'd rather be that than a big writer with bad ideas. Votes: 0

It shook up Trout to realize that even he could bring evil into the world — in the form of bad ideas. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Mere absurdity has never prevented the triumph of bad ideas, if they accord with easily aroused fantasies of an existence freed of human limitations. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The physical business of writing is unpleasant to me, but the psychic satisfaction of discharging bad ideas in worse English makes me forget it. Votes: 0

After you produce you can select. you can curate. you can censor. But for now, have bad ideas, lots and lots of bad ideas. Votes: 0

Everything worthwhile is a good idea, but did you ever notice there is more bad ideas that will work than there is good ones? Votes: 0

Idealism is based on big ideas. And, as anybody who has ever been asked "What's the big idea?" knows, most big ideas are bad ones. Votes: 0

When we leave the play saying how spectacular the sets or costumes were, or how interesting the ideas, it means we had a bad time. Votes: 0

We say in a democracy that good ideas will drive out bad ones, so if the good ones aren't there, we're left with the bad ones Votes: 0

Fascism is relatively easy to explain. It is a reactionary phenomenon. Nazism was some bad guys having some bad ideas and unfortunately succeeding in realizing them. Votes: 0

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 Votes: 0

We have a two-party system: The Democratic Party, which is a party of NO ideas, and the Republican Party, which is a party of BAD ideas. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

[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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I'm really quite bad at coming up with plot ideas. I like to create characters and just see what will happen to them when I let them loose! Votes: 0

Every idea, both good and bad will definitely have an opposition. The fact that someone mocks your ideas and dreams does not mean they are bad. Take note! Votes: 0

The only reason the House hasn't done even more damage is that the Senate often sands down the most noxious ideas, making the bills merely bad, not disastrous. Votes: 0

Convincing a leader of the value of front-line ideas alone is rarely enough for that person to overcome years of entrenched bad habits and to change his management style. Votes: 0

When men do not have healthy notions of the Divinity, false ideas supplant them, just as in bad times one uses counterfeit money when there is no good money. Votes: 0

The television industry doesn't like to see the compexity of the world. It prefers simple reporting, with simple ideas: this is white, that's black; this is good, that's bad. Votes: 0

Dreams can change histories and songs can alter destinies- two ideas that on good days I believe wholeheartedly and on bad days I denounce as a bunch of bull. Votes: 0

It's the same as saying, you know, "I'll smoke, but that's up to me." Doctors don't recommend it. I don't recommend smoking. It's a bad idea. Smoking or spanking. Bad ideas. Votes: 0

Good ideas will always get funded, so that's not going to be a problem. But you will see that it will be harder and harder for bad ideas to get funded. Votes: 0

A writer's notebook is the best way in the world to immortalize bad ideas. My idea about a good idea is one that sticks around and sticks around and sticks around. Votes: 0

The answer to the question "where do good ideas come from" is always the same, the come from bad ideas. If you come up with 20 bad ideas you get one good one. Votes: 0

The 21st Century should be India's century but from 2004 to 2014 bad ideas and bad actions have affected the country adversely. Every day was a new bad day and there were new scandals. People were furious. Votes: 0