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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Life turns on a dime. have no idea what tomorrow will bring... sure life would be a lot easier if we knew what was going to happen. You've got to live by faith one day at a time.

  Eddie Guerrero

  Ideas, One Day At A Time, Would Be

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• We have no idea where the world is going, except that it's going there very fast.

  Jonathan Sacks

  Ideas, World

  Speech at the Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University, 2009.

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• Others would say to me, 'It is only temporary, it will pass, you will get over it,' but of course they had no idea how I felt, although they were certain that they did. Over and over and over I would say to myself, If I can't feel, if I can't move, if I can't think, and I can't care, then what conceivable point is there in living?

  Kay Redfield Jamison

  Moving, Thinking, Ideas

  Kay Redfield Jamison (2014). “An Unquiet Mind: A memoir of moods and madness”, p.70, Pan Macmillan

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• No person, no idea, and no religion deserves to be illegal to insult, not even the Church of Emacs.

  Richard Stallman

  Ideas, Church, Insult

  "Political notes from 2007: January - April". Personal Website, www.stallman.org. March 01, 2007.

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• I think people have no idea what's coming down the pike. This is the crown jewel of socialism. And we only have next week to stop it....This is socialized medicine and like I said Sean this is the crown jewel of socialism....It's unconstitutional.

  Michele Bachmann

  Thinking, Next Week, Jewels

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• I had no idea that he was going to write that, but I've always believed that insecurity was what would keep you always in your innocence, no matter what the business did.

  Sally Kirkland

  Writing, Ideas, Insecurity

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• No idea is ever dead until those who believe in it say it's dead.

  James A. Michener

  Believe, Ideas, Belief

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• No idea will work if people don't trust your intentions toward them.

  Marcus Buckingham

  Ideas, People, Intention

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• Most people have no idea how good their body is designed to feel.

  Kevin Trudeau

  Motivational, New Year, Ideas

  Kevin Trudeau (2004). “Natural Cures "they" Don't Want You to Know about”, Alliance Publishing Group Incorporated

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• I went camping in the Maasai Mara and we moved site every night. I had no idea how spectacular it would be, how removed from ordinary life, or how many animals we would see.

  Georgina Chapman

  Night, Animal, Ideas

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• When experts say nuclear power generation is safe and doesn't cost much and this is the only way to go if we want to stop relying on coal, well, we believe them. But they've been lying to us for years. And the point is, we've never really known anything about nuclear power generation. We had little interest in it before 3/11, and we certainly had no idea how difficult it is to control nuclear energy.

  Junichiro Koizumi

  Lying, Believe, Years

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• I had no idea that history was being made. I was just tired of giving up.

  Rosa Parks

  Inspirational, Giving Up, Tired

  Rosa Parks, Gregory J. Reed (1994). “Quiet Strength: The Faith, the Hope, and the Heart of a Woman who Changed a Nation”, Zondervan

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• You have no idea
  How much you do for mankind
  When you love God unconditionally
  Even for a fleeting moment.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Love, Ideas, Fleeting

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• Letting users control your site can be terrifying at first. From day one we were asking ourselves, "What is going to be on the front page today?" You have no idea what the system will produce. But stepping back and giving consumers control is what brought more and more people to the site. They have a sense of ownership and discovery at the same time. If you give users the tools to spread and share their interests with others, they will use them to promote what is important to them.

  Kevin Rose

  Success, Business, Ideas

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• Let man then contemplate the whole of nature in her full and grand majesty... No idea approaches it. We may enlarge our conceptions beyond all imaginable space; we only produce atoms in comparison with the reality of things. It is an infinite sphere, the center of which is everywhere, the circumference nowhere.

  Blaise Pascal

  Nature, Reality, Men

  Blaise Pascal (1959). “Pascal's Pensées: Selections”, p.29, Prabhat Prakashan

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• When you live completely in each moment, without expecting anything, you have no idea of time.

  Shunryu Suzuki

  Time, Ideas, Moments

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