Idea Quotes
9651 Idea quotes by 5432 unique authors
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It's that idea that you can have one drink - and no you can't. Within a week I was drinking heavily. It was so quick…
— Robin Williams
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I always putted without a glove but I have no idea why - I saw others doing it and copied them.
— Seve Ballesteros
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I knew Pluto was popular among elementary schoolkids, but I had no idea they would mobilize into a 'Save Pluto' campaign. I now have a…
— Neil deGrasse Tyson
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When you have no idea how to surrender and you're tied up in knots, JUST BREATHE!
— Judith Orloff
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The average man does not get pleasure out of an idea because he thinks it is true; he thinks it is true because he gets…
— H. L. Mencken
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The idea that leisure is of value in itself is only conditionally true. The average man simply spends his leisure as a dog spends it.…
— H. L. Mencken
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Everyone says that forgiveness is a lovely idea until he has something to forgive.
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Look round this universe. What an immense profusion of beings, animated and organized, sensible and active! You admire this prodigious variety and fecundity. But inspect…
— David Hume
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Arabia was idolatrous when, six centuries after Jesus, Muhammad introduced the worship of the God of Abraham, of Ishmael, of Moses, and Jesus. The Ariyans…
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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I no longer care about the financial system. I gave them my roadmap. OK? Thanks, bye. I've no idea what's going on. I'm disconnected. I'm…
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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The world belongs primarily to the dead, and we only rent it from them for a little while. They created it, they wrote its literature…
— Robert Bly
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What is a great life if not a youthful idea executed by a man of mature years.
— Alfred de Vigny
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The artistic impulse seems not to wish to produce finished work. It certainly deserts us half-way, after the idea is born; and if we go…
— Clarence Day
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There's no good idea that cannot be improved on.
— Michael Eisner
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After years of telling corporate citizens to 'trust the system,' many companies must relearn instead to trust their people - and encourage their people to…
— Rosabeth Moss Kanter
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Nothing is more dangerous than an idea when it is the only one you have.
— Emile Chartier
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The air is full of ideas. They are knocking you in the head all the time. You only have to know what you want, then…
— Henry Ford
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You can kill a man, but you can't kill an idea.
— Medgar Evers
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The new idea either finds a champion or it dies. No ordinary involvement with a new idea provides the energy required to cope with the…
— Tom Peters
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Every man must form himself as a particular being, seeking, however, to attain that general idea of which all mankind are constituents.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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