Idea Quotes
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Up to that time I never realized that I possessed any particular gift of discovery, but Lord Rayleigh, whom I always considered as an ideal man of science, had said so and if that was the case, I felt that I should concentrate on some big idea.
Nikola Tesla
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I don't use names or captions for my many portraits of politicians and authors for newspapers. The drawing has to be self-explanatory, so I spend a lot of time sketching to find an idea and an angle that is clear.
Siegfried Woldhek
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When I was 10 or 11, I was on this TV series called 'Dead Man's Gun' and Henry Winkler was a guest star. He hung out with me and my brother the whole time. We had no idea who he was. Our parents were star struck.
Reece Thompson
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Attention is a strange sort of being, anyway, the idea of attention if someone appreciates your work. It's always nice that someone appreciates your work.
Johnny Depp
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The persistence of an all-absorbing idea is terrible.
Victor Hugo
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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
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All of us have life; few of us have an idea of it.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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A word grows to a thought – a thought to an idea – an idea to an act. The change is slow, and the Present is a sluggish traveler loafing in the path Tomorrow wants to take.
Beryl Markham
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There is a challenge of doing something new. Sometimes you have to suspend whether you believe in yourself doing it and just give yourself over to the idea that they believe in you.
Josh Peck
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It takes courage to be creative. Just as soon as you have a new idea, you are in a minority of one.
Ellis Paul Torrance
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Initially, my father opposed the idea of joining films and did not want me to move out, but now I'm closest to him and have his full support.
Esha Gupta
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I think it would be an excellent idea.
Mahatma Gandhi
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The whole idea of boys being people you would actually choose to spend time with was pretty much totally incomprehensible to me. i could never think of anything to say to them, and they seemed equally dumbstruck by my presence.
Ellen Wittlinger
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He said it was wife’s idea to name their daughter after him but I didn’t believe him. Could have been worse, I decided. It could have been Nigella.
Ben Aaronovitch
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The idea that industry is important and therefore must be run by government is one of the ugliest and least American concepts out there.
Bill Whittle
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I'm not lost, because I haven't any idea where to go that I might get lost on the way to. I'd like to get lost, because then I'd know where I was going, you see.
Catherynne M. Valente
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The soul's house is not built on such a convenient plan; there are few soundproof partitions in it. Only when the conviction - not merely the idea - that the demand of the Spirit, however inconvenient, rules the whole of it, will those objectionable noises die down which have a way of penetrating into the nicely furnished little oratory and drowning all the quieter voices by their din.
Evelyn Underhill
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There's a mass of places, really, where the idea started.
Siobhan Davies
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A good idea is something like an emotion, you just can't keep it in.
Kevin Costner
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The only way of enduring one disaster after the next is to love the very idea of disaster: if we succeed, there are no further surprises, we are superior to whatever occurs, we are invincible victims.
Emil Cioran
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Anything that has to travel all the way down from your cerebellum to your fingertips, there's a lot of things that can happen on the journey. Sometimes I'll listen to records, my own stuff, and I think god, the original idea for this was so much better than the mutation that we arrived at.
Elvis Costello
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The very idea of making shoes by hand boggled her mind.
Scott Westerfeld
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Never reject an idea, dream or goal because it will be hard work. Success rarely comes without it.
Bob Proctor
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I love the idea of creation and creativity.
Eric Lange