John Fogerty Quotes

A new idea must not be judged by its immediate results.

The idea that we should be open to all ideas is very different from the supposition that all ideas are equally valid.

People see the wrongness in an idea much quicker that the rightness.

You must find the ideas that have some promise in them... It is not enough to just have ideas.

I think we are used to being critical and evaluating ideas.

Don't trust a brilliant idea unless it survives the hangover.

The well-meaning contention that all ideas have equal merit seems to me little different from the disastrous contention that no ideas have any merit.

I have lots of ideas. Trouble is, most of them suck.

If your ideas are good they rise, and if they're a bit crap they sink.

If you want to have good ideas you must have many ideas. Most of them will be wrong, and what you have to learn is which ones to throw away.

there is no prescribed route to follow to arrive at a new idea. You have to make the intuitive leap. But the difference is that once you've made the intuitive leap you have to justify it by filling in the intermediate steps. N my case, it often happens that I have an idea, but then I try to fill in the intermediate steps and find that they don't work, so I have to give it up.

An essential part of seeing clearly is finding the willingness to look closely and to go beyond our own ideas.

You have to have a lot of ideas. First, if you want to make discoveries, it's a good thing to have good ideas. And second, you have to have a sort of sixth sense-the result of judgment and experience-which ideas are worth following up. I seem to have the first thing, a lot of ideas, and I also seem to have good judgment as to which are the bad ideas that I should just ignore, and the good ones, that I'd better follow up.

When we are in the grasp of illusion - or, for that matter, whenever we have a new idea - instead of searching for ways to prove our ideas wrong, we usually attempt to prove them correct. Psychologists call this the confirmation bias, and it presents a major impediment of our ability to break free from the misinterpretation of randomness.

Get five or six of your smartest friends in a room and ask them to rate your idea.

Don't let people tell you your ideas won't work.

...a distinction must be made between true and false ideas, and that too much rein must not be given to a man's imagination under pretext of its being a clear and distinct intellection.

I hated discussing ideas with investors, because then I become a Defender of the Idea, and that influences your thought process.

I think the greatest tragedy of mankind is that people have ideas and opinions in their heads but don't have a process for properly examining these ideas to find out what's true. That creates a world of distortions.

Why do you keep maintaining your ideas are right if you can't prove them?

There is plenty of time to argue with new ideas later. They key is to take careful notes first and debate second.

Every valuable creative idea must always be logical in hindsight. If it were not, we would never be able to see its value.

An isolated person requires correspondence as a means of seeing his ideas as others see them, and thus guarding against the dogmatisms and extravagances of solitary and uncorrected speculation.

Content may by trivial. But I do not think that any person may pronounce either upon the weight or upon the triviality of an idea before its execution.

The typical eye sees the ten per cent bad of an idea and overlooks the ninety per cent good.