No Idea Quotes

• A person with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Success, Good Life

  1897 Following the Equator, ch.32.

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• A mediocre idea that generates enthusiasm will go further than a great idea that inspires no one.

  Mary Kay Ash

  Inspirational, Success, Enthusiasm For Life

  Mary Kay Ash (2009). “The Mary Kay Way: Timeless Principles from America's Greatest Woman Entrepreneur”, p.67, John Wiley & Sons

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• If at first the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Hope, Spiritual

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.480, Princeton University Press

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• No idea is so outlandish that it should not be considered with a searching but at the same time a steady eye.

  Winston Churchill

  Eye, Ideas, Judgement

  Sir Winston Churchill, Jack Fishman (1974). “If I lived my life again”, W.H. Allen

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• It is better to have no ideas than false ones.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Ideas, Aries

  Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoirs, correspondence and private papers of Thomas Jefferson, ed. by T.J. Randolph”

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• I have no idea on timing. It’s easier to tell what will happen than when it will happen. I would say that what is going on in terms of trade policy is going to have very important consequences.

  Warren Buffett

  Ideas, Important, Investing

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• I have no idea what happens next.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Ideas, Next, Happens

  "Jennifer Byrne Presents", www.abc.net.au. July 31, 2012.

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• I have no idea who's steering, and I don't really care .. I just keep going whatever the inclination is ... there are threads that are continuous and hold everything together and a major thread is country music.

  Neil Young

  Music, Country, Ideas

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• You have no idea how much pain I'm in. It's like being cut open every day, bleeding onto the stones. I can't understand how any of you failed to see the blood.

  Erin Hunter

  Pain, Cutting, Blood

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• There's no idea in the world that is not contained by black life. I could write forever about the black experience in America.

  August Wilson

  Writing, Ideas, America

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• You know, it's one thing about intellectuals, they prove that you can be absolutely brilliant and have no idea what's going on.

  Woody Allen

  Ideas, Annie Hall, Brilliant

  Woody Allen, Marshall Brickman (2000). “Annie Hall: scénario bilingue”

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• Compose. (No ideas
  but in things) Invent!
  Saxifrage is my flower that splits
  the rocks.

  William Carlos Williams

  Flower, Thoughtful, Thinking

  William Carlos Williams, A. Walton Litz, Christopher MacGowan (1991). “The Collected Poems of William Carlos Williams: 1939-1962”, p.455, New Directions Publishing

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• I had no idea what I wanted to do with my life, so nothing of what I was studying seemed to fit. I know now that I should have taken advantage of that time and that I missed a great deal of the opportunity to educate myself.

  Harrison Ford

  Taken, Opportunity, Ideas

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• You have no idea what a long-legged gal can do without doing anything.

  Claudette Colbert

  Ideas, Long, Gals

  "Fictional character: Geraldine 'Gerry' Jeffers". "The Palm Beach Story", 1942.

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• How much are you worth?
  I have no idea. How much do you want?
  Naw.I just want to know what you're worth. Over ten million?
  Oh, my, yes.
  Why are you doing it? How much better can you eat? What can you buy that you can't already afford?
  The future, Mr. Gittes! The future!

  Robert Towne

  Money, Power, Ideas

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• I shall always feel respect for every one who has written a book, let it be what it may, for I had no idea of the trouble which trying to write common English could cost one—And alas there yet remains the worst part of all correcting the press.

  Charles Darwin

  Book, Writing, Ideas

  Charles Darwin, Frederick Burkhardt, Sydney Smith (1985). “The Correspondence of Charles Darwin: 1837-1843”, p.29, Cambridge University Press

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• Upon the whole, necessity is something, that exists in the mind, not in objects; nor is it possible for us ever to form the most distant idea of it, consider'd as a quality in bodies. Either we have no idea of necessity, or necessity is nothing but that determination of thought to pass from cause to effects and effects to causes, according to their experienc'd union.

  David Hume

  Determination, Ideas, Mind

  David Hume (2003). “A Treatise of Human Nature”, p.119, Courier Corporation

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• I wanted to be a doctor once upon a time, but it turns out you've got to study, and that wasn't going to happen. I had no idea what I was going to do. I had trouble holding jobs because they want you to be on time. That wasn't going to work.

  Bill Murray

  Jobs, Doctors, Ideas

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• What will the greatest experiment discover? I have no idea!, maybe nothing!, If we won't check, we will never know. In science there is never a guarantee of success. If you understood this last sentence, then you understood the most important message of this lecture.

  Nathan Seiberg

  Science, Ideas, Important

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• I never like to say that I 'believe' anything. There are no ideas worth believing.

  Jacques Chirac

  Believe, Ideas, I Believe

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• [In politics] when A goes after B and there's a C, and D and a Q all lined up there, you have no idea who's going to be the beneficiary.

  Mark Shields

  Ideas, Beneficiaries

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I think I have a good sense of humor, but I'm not, like, a joke-teller. I get the jokes, which is sometimes half the battle. Believe me, I have no idea why anyone hires me.

  Mila Kunis

  Believe, Thinking, Ideas

  "And She's Funny, Too: A GQ&A with Mila Kunis". Interview with David Marchese, www.gq.com. July 12, 2011.

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• When you're doing an action set piece, it's very similar to choreography in a way because it's shot that way. It's meticulous how it's rehearsed. I mean, you have no idea.

  Rob Marshall

  Mean, Ideas, Pieces

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

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• Many people have trouble sticking to their resolutions, and there is a simple scientific explanation for this. In 1987, a team of psychologists conducted a study in which they monitored the New Year's resolutions of 275 people. After one week the psychologists found that 92 percent of the people were keeping their resolutions; after two weeks we have no idea what happened because the psychologists had quit monitoring.

  Dave Barry

  New Year, Team, Simple

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• I walk into the office at Southwark Bridge every morning, and I have no idea whats going to happen.

  Lionel Barber

  Morning, Bridges, Ideas

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