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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• 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 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 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 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 I was part of what was going to be a big mega-hit. I thought I was doing a B sci-fi movie [Independence Day]. And, actually, it was Jeff Goldblum who looked at me one day and said, "You know, I think this is going to be really something." And I said, "Well, I hope you're right." And sure enough, it turned out to be.

  Brent Spiner

  Thinking, Ideas, Independence

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Most people have no idea how much goes into designing a typeface. Twenty-six letters in the alphabet, usually with two versions of each, upper and lower case. Punctuation and alternate characters and numbers - let's not forget numbers - can add another 40 or so.

  Michael Bierut

  Character, Ideas, Two

  Source: scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org

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• I have no idea what's going to happen with America in the future.

  Jackie Mason

  Ideas, America, Happens

  Source: spectator.org

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• I jump out of the boat [in The Lost World], and I'm trying to swim to the kid, and my boots fill with water, and I start to drown, and the director has no idea why I'm flailing around. He's, "Come on, come on!" And I managed to rescue myself. I'm wet and sitting on the banks of the river, and John walks over to me and says, "Are you all right, dear boy?" "Yeah, I'm all right."

  Eric McCormack

  Kids, Boys, Ideas

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I have no idea and I think Steven King strongest suit is the characters that he does create, all in the same area where he lives. The way he describes them is one of his fortes and it boggles my mind how he's able to do that and to create so many. It must be thousands by now.

  Kathy Bates

  Kings, Character, Thinking

  Source: guff.com

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• Obviously, [Wham!] made me a lot more comfortable as a musician. I was very confident that I would become a successful musician, but I had no idea I would be a celebrity.

  George Michael

  Successful, Ideas, Musician

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• What can you say of a leader who starts drinking as soon as he wakes up and doesn't stop until he goes to bed? You've no idea how painful it was to deal with Yahya Khan. He was really Jack the Ripper.

  Zulfikar Ali Bhutto

  Drinking, Ideas, Leader

  Source: dhakadigest.net

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• We have no idea how much the government knows and how much the CIA even knows about average citizens. The government is not supposed to be doing this in this country. They listen in on our phone calls. I am not exaggerating because I have studied this a long time.

  Nat Hentoff

  Country, Phones, Government

  Source: www.lewrockwell.com

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• [ Bernie Sanders' popularity] is exactly the same as Donald Trump's.It is a bunch of people who are disaffected with what the establishment has done, and they are striking out. Do they have any clear idea of what they want as an alternative? No. The candidates that they have surrounded themselves with either have no idea or are promising things that are so impractical they will never get done.

  Michael Bloomberg

  Ideas, People, Alternatives

  Source: asia.nikkei.com

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• Every joke is an experiment. When you sit, alone, and write a script, or just a joke, you really have no idea if it will succeed.

  Judd Apatow

  Writing, Ideas, Scripts

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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