One Idea Quotes

78 quotes by 63 authors

We don't see very far in the future, we are very focused on one idea at a time, one problem at a time, and all… — Daniel Kahneman
Before you can write a novel you have to have a number of ideas that come together. One idea is not enough. — Joyce Carol Oates
Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles,… — Swami Vivekananda
I've got one idea I want to do for a film and you know I just enjoy myself doing bits and pieces. — Norman Wisdom
If you happen to read fairy tales, you will observe that one idea runs from one end of them to the other--the idea that peace… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Yes, I know,' interrupted Puddleglum. 'And few return to the sunlit lands. You needn't say it again. You are a chap of one idea, aren't… — C.S. Lewis
The best thing to do is to loosen my grip on my pen and let it go wandering about until it finds an entrance. There… — Machado de Assis
There is, indeed, nothing more annoying than to be, for instance, wealthy, of good family, nice-looking, fairly intelligent, and even good-natured, and yet to have… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
Now take a human body. Why wouldn't you like to see a human body with a curling tail with a crest of ostrich feathers at… — Ayn Rand
We all have one idea of what the color blue is, but pressed to describe it specifically, there are so many ways: the ocean, lapis… — Sarah Dessen
But many intelligent people have a sort of bug: they think intelligence is an end in itself. They have one idea in mind: to be… — Muriel Barbery
One of us had loved the other more perfectly, had watched the other more closely, and one of us listened and the other hadnâ€™t, and… — Nicole Krauss
Because the beauty of the human body is that it hasn't a single muscle which doesn't serve its purpose; that there's not a line wasted;… — Ayn Rand
You refuse to listen. Because, like every other man, you can keep only one idea in your head at a time-usully the wrong one. — Loretta Chase
For me, it's been liberating to put myself in the mind of a fictitious six year-old each day, and rediscover my own curiosity. I've been… — Bill Watterson
The dangerous man is the one who has only one idea, because then he'll fight and die for it. — Francis Crick
One idea lights a thousand candles. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The world doesn't come to the clever folks, it comes to the stubborn, obstinate, one-idea-at-a-time people. — Mary Roberts Rinehart
Once children learn how to learn, nothing is going to narrow their mind. The essence of teaching is to make learning contagious, to have one… — Marva Collins
Symmetry, as wide or as narrow as you may define its meaning, is one idea by which man through the ages has tried to comprehend… — Hermann Weyl

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