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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• 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 am unable, when I turn to myself, to recognize any of my faculties or my capacities. The inner sensation which I have of myself informs me that I am, that I think, that I will, that I have sensory awareness, that I suffer, and so on; but it provides me with no knowledge whatever of what I am - of the nature of my thought, my sensations, my passions, or my pain - or the mutual relations that obtain between all these things ... I have no idea whatever of my soul.

  Nicolas Malebranche

  Pain, Passion, Thinking

  "Dialogues on Metaphysics". Book by Nicolas Malebranche, Dialogue III, 1688.

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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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• 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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• Don't judge people you don't know. You have no idea what they've been through, and you may waste an opportunity to make a new friend.

  John Avery

  Opportunity, Ideas, People

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• You are right. I have no idea, and it is none of my business, and I was taught to obey my parents. But sometimes it is just impossible to obey blindly.
  Sometimes a child must strike out on her own. A child cannot be a child forever, whether that means not touching a spindle or . . . or . . .

  Alex Flinn

  Children, Mean, 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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• 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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• You got a lot of ladies to get through. You’re still young. First love’s the sweetest, but it doesn’t last.” “Not ever?” I ask. Grandad looks at me with a seriousness he reserves for moments when he wants me to really pay attention. “When we fall that first time, we’re not really in love with the girl. We’re in love with being in love. We’ve got no idea what she’s really about—or what she’s capable of. We’re in love with our idea of her and of who we become around her. We’re idiots.

  Holly Black

  Girl, Fall, First Love

  Holly Black (2012). “Black Heart”, p.66, Simon and Schuster

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• There's no idea that can't be explained to a thoughtful 14-year-old. If the thoughtful 14-year-old doesn't get it, it is your fault, not the 14-year-old's.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Thoughtful, Years, Ideas

  Goodreads Interview, www.goodreads.com. December, 2008.

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• I never said I had no idea about most of the things you said I said I had no idea about.

  Elliott Abrams

  Ideas, Said

  Personal Quote, www.imdb.com.

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• You have no idea what I'm talking about, I'm sure.

  Alan Ball

  Beauty, Wisdom, Talking

  Alan Ball, Sam Mendes (1999). “American Beauty: The Shooting Script”, Newmarket Press

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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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• I had no idea what time I’d left, how I’d gotten home, who’d been up here, and how long he, she, or they had stayed. Another night, added to the hundreds that had gone before, shrouded in mystery. Really, when you thought about it, it was creepy. My own life was a secret to me.

  Heather King

  Home, Night, Ideas

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• I just get the will to do it.  I don’t plan a photograph in advance…  I work by impulse.  No philosophy.  No ideas.  Not by the head but by the eyes.  Eventually inspiration comes-instinct is the same as inspiration, and eventually it comes.

  Manuel Alvarez Bravo

  Photography, Philosophy, Inspiration

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• The people who complain the loudest about never having an opportunity in life are usually the ones who have no idea what they really want.

  Dan Miller

  Opportunity, Ideas, People

  Dan Miller, Jared Angaza (2012). “Wisdom Meets Passion: When Generations Collide and Collaborate”, p.37, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• The press still thinks [global warming] is controversial. So they find the 1% of the scientists and put them up as if they're 50% of the research results. You in the public would have no idea that this is basically a done deal and that we're on to other problems, because the journalists are trying to give it a 50/50 story. It's not a 50/50 story. It's not. Period.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Thinking, Ideas, Giving

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• No one knows what capacities for doing and suffering he has in himself, until something comes to rouse them to activity: just as in a pond of still water, lying there like a mirror, there is no sign of the roar and thunder with which it can leap from the precipice, and yet remain what it is; or again, rise high in the air as a fountain. When water is as cold as ice, you can have no idea of the latent warmth contained in it.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Lying, Mirrors, Air

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “Studies in Pessimism: Top of Schopenhauer”, p.30, 谷月社

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• I have solved what color is, however ; I still have no idea about what line is.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Color, Ideas, Design

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• If you're a guy, you have absolutely no idea what's going on at any time in the relationship, ever. Here's what you know: you know when you're getting laid, and you know when it's all over. Those are the only two things you're aware of.

  Adam Carolla

  Funny, Humor, Ideas

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• No leadership, no ideas. Not even enough imagination to thump someone in the line-up when the ref wasn't looking.

  J.P.R. Williams

  Ideas, Imagination, Lines

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• You are about to start the greatest improvisation of all. With no script. No idea what's going to happen, often with people and places you have never seen before. And you are not in control. So say 'yes.' And if you're lucky, you'll find people who will say 'yes' back.

  Stephen Colbert

  Graduation, Ideas, People

  "23 Of The Best Pieces Of Advice Ever Given To Graduates". Stephen Colbert 2006 Knox Commencement Address, www.businessinsider.com. May 15, 2013.

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