The left is really good at selling bad ideas and the right is really bad at selling good ideas.
The worst thing is the blank page at the start. Then the horrible things written on the blank page. Then deciding whether or not to throw out those horrible things: lame scenes, lame characters, bad ideas.
Iteration, not ideation, is the most important part of early stage entrepreneurship. You have to have a lot of ideas - a lot of bad ideas - if you want to end up with a good one.
Big companies have trouble with innovation. Innovation is about bad ideas, or ideas that look like bad ideas. That's the fundamental thing.
Democrats have bad ideas and Republicans have no ideas.
I don't think that the Left has a monopoly on bad ideas. I don't think the Right has a monopoly on good ideas.
Good and bad ideas both come from the same fountain of speculation and experiment.
One problem with globalisation is that bad ideas seem to travel faster than good ones; first there was smearing tomato ketchup on everything; then drinking sugar-soaked cocktails ('Cosmo'-politanism) instead of our traditional whisky soda, and now this idea that we should abandon the poor to their fate in order to protect their dignity.
The only sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas.
Usually after finishing a novel, I have a head full of bad ideas for the next one.
You see a lot of good ideas or well-written scripts that are bad ideas.
Worst ideas? Me? Whatever do you mean? There are no bad ideas.
As Oscar Wilde should have said, when bad ideas have nowhere else to go, they emigrate to America and become university courses.
Good ideas are a dime a dozen, bad ones are free.
The way to get good ideas is to get lots of ideas and throw the bad ones away.
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.
I would run into the corner store, the bodega, and just grab a paper bag or buy juice - anything just to get a paper bag. And I'd write the words on the paper bag and stuff these ideas in my pocket until I got back. Then I would transfer them into the notebook.
I'm focused on leaks that hurt the institution of the president and the president himself. I understand we have to leak things to reporters to help shape policy or try to balloon things or do tests on ideas or people for different jobs. I'm talking about nefarious, unnecessary, backstabbing, palace intrigue-like leaks.
Districts are really different across the country, but the more that people on the progressive Left show power at the ballot box - and reclassify some of the ideas that we've called 'progressive,' but that are really mainstream ideas, like college for all - the better.
To be a proactive person, you must learn to say no to most ideas and opportunities so you have the mental and physical bandwidth to execute the realistic business plans you have already mapped out.