Ideas Quotes
13167 Ideas quotes by 6467 unique authors
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If Pakistan has any ideas of annexing any part of our territories by force, she should think afresh. I want to state categorically that force…
— Lal Bahadur Shastri
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What a story that would make! How many men and women go through the same rivers, menaced by the same sharp clichés, the same jagged…
— Richard Bach
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What was the question? ...Oh. Where do I get my crazy ideas? Answer: sleep-fairy, walk-fairy, shower-fairy. Book-fairy. And in these last few years, from my…
— Richard Bach
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All my sermons are prepared in the presence of the Blessed Sacrament. As recreation is most pleasant and profitable in the sun, so homiletic creativity…
— Fulton J. Sheen
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Okay, maybe I'm not such a shitty writer. But I can't pull my ideas together, Van Houten. My thoughts are stars I can't fathom into…
— John Green
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At one time my only wish was to be a police official. It seemed to me to be an occupation for my sleepless intriguing mind.…
— Soren Kierkegaard
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Build, therefore, your own world. As fast as you conform your life to the pure idea in your mind, that will unfold it's great proportions.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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There's no way to put a limit on what one may accomplish individually if the intent is an impeccable intent. Don Juan's teachings are not…
— Carlos Castaneda
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The idea of full dress for preparation for a battle comes not from a belief that it will add to the fighting ability. The preparation…
— Wooden Leg
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The true critic is he who bears within himself the dreams and ideas and feelings of myriad generations, and to whom no form of thought…
— Oscar Wilde
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I have too much respect for the idea of God to make it responsible for such an absurd world.
— Georges Duhamel
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A great idea is usually original to more than one discoverer. Great ideas come when the world needs them. Great ideas surround the world's ignorance…
— Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward
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Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness. Concerning all acts of initiative and creation, there is one elementary…
— W H Murray
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The idea of protoplasm, which was really a name for our ignorance, [is] only a little less misleading than the expression "Vital force".
— John B. S. Haldane
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When we seek happiness through accumulation, either outside of ourselves-from other people, relationships, or material goods-or from our own self-development, we are missing the essential…
— Mark Epstein
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An acting teacher once told me, 'Greet everything with yes... Even if you abandon one idea for another one, saying yes allows you to move…
— Tina Fey
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You become that which you think you are. Or, it is not that you become it, but that the idea gets very deeply rooted and…
— Rajneesh
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I've had moments where I didn't hit the ball very good coming in, and you've got to turn it around. That's the whole idea of…
— Tiger Woods
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Ideas can no more flow backward than can a river.
— Victor Hugo
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Once a new idea springs into existence, it cannot be unthought. There is a sense of immortality in a new idea.
— Edward de Bono
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If I were required to guess off-hand, and without collusion with higher minds, what is the bottom cause of the amazing material and intellectual advancement…
— Mark Twain
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You grow your best thoughts in silence, solitude, and meditation. When you relax and think deeply, you are giving your inmost powers their best opportunity…
— Grenville Kleiser
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Good ideas, like good pickles, are crisp, enduring, and devilishly hard to make.
— Rushworth Kidder
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Put the argument into a concrete shape, into an image, some hard phrase, round and solid as a ball, which they can see and handle…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Society goes on and on and on. It is the same with ideas.
— Ramsay MacDonald
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