After the tense opening sequence, Affleck takes the film into calmer territory as the focus shifts to America where the bizarre plan, described as «
the best worst idea» available, is devised.
If you know what it feels like to accept that you need the help of a fertility specialist and you decide not telling anyone is
the best worst idea.
But for now it is
the best bad idea they've got.
As his boss (Bryan Cranston) says, the Hollywood cover is «by far
the best bad idea we have.»
It is «
the best bad idea» the higher - ups (Philip Baker Hall, Bob Gunton) have in front of them.
From «Argo fuck yourself,» to «This is
the best bad idea we have.»
The CIA comes up with a lot of bad ideas, but making a sci - fi film that needs exotic locations in Iran is
the best bad idea.
Getting the six hostages out by making a fake film is the CIA's «
best bad idea».
«Exfiltration» specialist Tony Mendez (Affleck) finally comes up with the «
best bad idea» possible: collaborate with some Hollywood heavyweights (Goodman, Arkin), in order to create the illusion that Mendez and his fellow agents are actually members of a big - time, sci - fi blockbuster production (titled «Argo») who are scouting out shooting locations in Iran — as a cover for their high - stakes rescue operation.
Not exact matches
If you're a slacker, that's
good advice, but if you're already a highly driven achievement - oriented person, putting even more pressure on yourself is a
bad idea.
Perhaps it's not a
bad idea to take the holiday season an occasion to formally and fully switch off, but the
best use of the time, if Rosen is to be believed, is to think deeply about how you want to live, your priorities, and how you can draw up strategies (or boundaries) to help you achieve that vision in the coming year.
In fact, cutting it out too often is a
bad idea, because without it you're missing some of the key fat - fighting nutrients such as choline.If you're counting calories, your
best bet is to eat one yolk for every 2 to 3 eggs you consume.
«A
bad management team can ruin an
idea, but a
good management team can always improve an
idea if the market is moving on it,» he says.
Take heart in the fact that you've saved yourself a lot of pain before investing resources in a
bad idea and get on with finding opportunities where the numbers will work
better for you.
Everyone's entitled to their own
ideas (
good or
bad), but not to their own reality.
I learned long ago that you can have the very
best of intentions and still have a really
bad idea.
How to Take Advantage of Online Review and Answer Sites: Make It Easy for Customers to Review You Asking your customers to review you point blank is a
bad idea when unsolicited; it is especially unappealing to the under - 30 demographic, although it works
better after an in - depth, positive customer service interaction.
Racist at
worst and tone deaf at
best, Dove's looping Facebook ad showed a black woman taking off her brown shirt to become a white woman in a white shirt, reckoning back to racist old soap ads that fed the
idea that black was dirty and could be cleaned into white.
But create a workplace where there are no
bad ideas, just early incarnations of
good ones.
The
worst thing that can happen is you get feedback that leads you to a
better idea.
And I also think that it can be destructive and a very
bad idea to ask yourself a different question: Is what I'm being asked to do in the moment the highest and
best use of my time?
They probably had 10
bad ideas that lead to a
good idea and then 10
good ideas get to the great
idea,» Goldberg says.
VCs like Mark Suster have long argued that the market's
worst problem right now is not too little cash but too much cash chasing too few
good ideas.
They likely don't know you, and don't have a clue if your
idea is
good or
bad.
Good ideas that move too slow fail just as often as
bad ideas do.
Touchscreens in cars, at least on the dashboard, may very
well be a
bad idea.
Study the history of
good ideas, he urges, and you'll find that the
best of them tend to come from the
worst «with high frequency.»
«Keeping 100 percent of your crypto assets online is a
bad idea for an institution, or frankly, for an individual who has a large amount invested in it as
well,» he said.
Some
ideas are
good, lots are
bad.
The
good news is that clever startups are coming to market with big new
ideas intended not only to change the way small businesses handle money, but in some cases to also cut out big,
bad, TARP - grabbing traditional banks altogether.
«I have no
idea if it's
good or
bad,» he says, «but I read that whoever fails the most wins, and I can keep cranking out
ideas as long as you can keep funding them.
Whereas Instagram is for curated, pretty photos, Facebook is for family - friends broadcast and permanence, Twitter is like the world's debating chamber, Whatsapp is a 21st century rendition of SMS, and Snapchat is a
good idea badly executed.
It's not a
bad idea to start taking a look at what open - source software you're already using and spending some time getting a
better understanding of how it works — in the case of Becker's example of AngularJS, you can dive deeper with resources like the AngularJS Google Group, AngularJS questions at Stack Overflow and W3Schools» AngularJS Tutorial.
Ideas, regardless of how
good or
bad, come from a place where few people go.
Additionally, a NBC News / Wall Street Journal poll found 27 % of people surveyed thought the law was a «
good idea,» while 36 % said it was a «
bad idea.»
And surely that's the
worst fate for any
good idea.
Indeed, I suggested Microsoft might kill the whole
bad idea and refrain from releasing the device altogether, but sure enough the company soldiered on, only to see the Pro become a big flop, mainly because it delivered none of what people wanted in a tablet — lightness, low price and
good battery life, all of which were ironically established by Apple.
The main cause of uncertainty is that, since the Fed aired the
idea of tapering in May, economic indicators have been neither particularly
good nor particularly
bad.
But according to Simpson, the real secret to the company's enduring success is its management style — one that subscribes to the
idea that communicating with employees is important in the
good times and essential in the
bad.
The problem is our tendency to let greed turn a
good idea into a really
bad one.
The
idea is simple: the environments where we live and work influence our behaviors, so how can we structure those environments to make the
good habits more likely and the
bad habits more difficult?
«No meeting ever determines whether you have a
good idea or a
bad idea,» says Marasco.
Trying to make everyone in the office
best friends is a
bad idea for a number of reasons, but that doesn't mean they shouldn't have meaningful conversations outside of a typical work environment.
Ideas,
good and
bad, have no border.
But even if you're seen as a
good worker, the
idea that you're a
bad woman can still hurt you professionally.»
«It's a
bad idea in a traditional mutual fund, and moving that into a quote - unquote «efficient ETF wrapper» doesn't make it any
better.
It's a
bad idea in a traditional mutual fund, and moving that into an quote - unquote «efficient ETF wrapper» doesn't make it any
better.
The Hanfree case serves as an allegory for Kickstarter's growing pains as a crowdfunding platform, a largely new and unregulated world in which anyone with any
idea —
good or
bad — can get paid to create it, largely without any vetting or approval process from the site itself.
Generally, if you have
bad credit, it's not a
good idea to carry any type of balance on a secured credit card.
The
best way to get rich in stocks is slowly To sum it up, just about anything you can do in the stock market that has a goal of big, quick profits is most likely a
bad idea.