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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• I look at him. "It's odious," he says. "Detention?" I ask, confused. "Huh?" We have no idea what the other is talking about. "What's odious?" I ask. "O.D.S," he says, pointing to his discman and obviously referring to some dropkick band. Like I really care.

  Melina Marchetta

  Confused, Talking, Ideas

  Melina Marchetta (2003). “Saving Francesca”

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• The problem with time, I've learned, whether it's those first two weeks I got to spend with you, or the final two months I got to spend with him, eventually time always runs out. I have no idea where you are out there in the world, John. But I understand that I lost the right to know these things long ago. No matter how many years go by, I know one thing to be as true as ever was - I'll see you soon then.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Running, Long Ago, Years

  "Fictional character: Savannah Curtis". "Dear John", www.imdb.com. 2010.

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• From her dubious tone alone, I could see how Karin had no idea how terrifying words spoken quietly could be. How words chosen precisely to wreak maximum damage ticked like a bomb in your head, but exploded in your heart hours later, leaving you scarred and changed.

  Justina Chen

  Heart, Ideas, Leaving

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• Oh, baby. You have no idea what I’d do to get through those layers and down to the good stuff.

  Jennifer Estep

  Baby, Ideas, Layers

  Jennifer Estep (2011). “Tangled Threads”, p.221, Simon and Schuster

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• Velvet looks horrified. “If you are fool enough to address King R’jan, you will do it thus and in no other manner! ‘My King, Liege, Lord, and Master, your servant begs you grant it leave to speak.’” “Wow. Totally delusionary there.” “Good luck with that,” Ryodan says. “She doesn't beg to speak, or do anything else. You can lock her up, down, and sideways and it’s never going to happen.” I beam at him. I had no idea he thought so highly of me.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Kings, Good Luck, Ideas

  Karen Marie Moning (2016). “The Fever Series 7-Book Bundle: Darkfever, Bloodfever, Faefever, Dreamfever, Shadowfever, Iced, Burned”, p.1735, Dell

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• You have no idea about presents or what they mean. The last present you gave me was a stick.” “You wanted a weapon.” “It was a stick.” “It had a bow on it.” “It was a stick.” “I thought you liked the stick. You laughed.

  Derek Landy

  Mean, Ideas, Weapons

  Derek Landy (2015). “Skulduggery Pleasant:”, p.48, HarperCollins UK

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• Tris: Wait. So you have no idea what my aptitude is? Tori: Yes and No. My conclusion is that you display equal aptitude for Abnegation, Dauntless and Erudite. People who get this kind of result are..are called...Divergent.

  Veronica Roth

  Ideas, People, Waiting

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• I think that most people go to bookshops and have no idea what they want to buy. Somehow the books sit there, almost magically willing people to pick them up. The right person for the right book. Its as though they know whose life they need to be a part of, how they can make a difference, how they can teach a lesson, put a smile on a face at just the right time.

  Cecelia Ahern

  Book, Thinking, Ideas

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• I may have no idea what I'm talking about," I said, a little ticked off now. "But we're all a part of a minority waiting for a majority to pull their heads out of their asses.

  Chris Colfer

  Talking, Ideas, Waiting

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• These?" Mat said, gesturing to his coat and shirt. "I really have no idea. They were just down there. I'm completely baffled." He had been very pleased to learn that Seanchan guards-for all their stoic expressions and too-straight backs-responded to bribes like other people.

  Robert Jordan

  Expression, Ideas, People

  Robert Jordan, Brandon Sanderson (2013). “A Memory of Light”, p.509, Macmillan

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• I want to undo this. To make it right. But I have no idea how. I don't seem to know how to open up to people without getting the door slammed in my face. So I do nothing.

  Gayle Forman

  Doors, Ideas, People

  Gayle Forman (2013). “Just One Day”, p.133, Penguin

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• I have no idea what you just said, child,' Breeze said. 'So I'm simply going to pretend it was coherent, then move on.

  Brandon Sanderson

  Children, Moving, Ideas

  Brandon Sanderson (2011). “Mistborn Trilogy”, p.393, Macmillan

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• I don't know. I don't know at all. And that's what's frightening the life out of me. To have no idea.

  Agatha Christie

  Ideas, Frightening, Knows

  Agatha Christie (1986). “Agatha Christie: five complete novels of murder and detection”, Random House Value Publishing

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• You have no idea how hard I've looked for a gift to bring You. Nothing seemed right. What's the point of bringing gold to the gold mine, or water to the ocean. Everything I came up with was like taking spices to the Orient. It's no good giving my heart and my soul because you already have these. So I've brought you a mirror. Look at yourself and remember me.

  Rumi

  Ocean, Heart, Mirrors

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• We have no idea, but its not like we're going to win any awards for normalcy anytime soon. So you get into people's heads? The two of us can throw people around like toys. Zu once blew up an AC unit, and all she did was walk by it.

  Alexandra Bracken

  Winning, Awards, Ideas

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• Actually this is really funny - one time she accidentally forgot to leave a note and I had no idea she had even moved. I was living in the house with a beautiful Mexican family for three months before I realized they weren't my cousins visiting from out of town. They were so nice. They called me "Quien es, quien es," which I thought was a beautiful name.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Beautiful, Cousin, Nice

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