Idea Quotes
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I like the idea of putting your Christmas wish list up and letting people share it.
Bill Gates
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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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Focus on execution rather than just the idea.
Anthony Robbins
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When you make a film you usually make a film about an idea.
Sydney Pollack
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Our idea of a real problem is someone else's idea of an ultimate dream. Put the 'problem' in perspective
Anthony Robbins
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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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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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Wait for the idea. It may not come at first, but you must be patient, never doubting, waiting in faith. It will come.
Ernest Holmes
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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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Worse than jokes in the morning did she hate the idea of a husband.
Elizabeth von Arnim
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First feel sure of idea, then the execution will be easier.
Eva Hesse
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To be sociable, I puffed on a marijuana cigarette, but I didn't inhale...I just hate the idea of drawing smoke into my lungs.
Tony Abbott
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There's a mass of places, really, where the idea started.
Siobhan Davies
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I try not to think about anything special while running. As a matter of fact, I usually run with my mind empty. However, when I run empty-minded, something naturally and abruptly crawls in sometime. That might become an idea that can help me with my writing.
Haruki Murakami
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I sometimes think that I don't let myself know what I'm really thinking about. That doesn't make much sense but it makes sense to me. I have this idea that the reason we have dreams is that we're thinking about things that we don't know we're thinking about—and those things, well, they sneak out of us in our dreams. Maybe we're like tires with too much air in them. The air has to leak out. That's what dreams are.
Benjamin Alire Saenz
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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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An idea, like a ghost, must be spoken to a little before it will explain itself.
Charles Dickens
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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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The persistence of an all-absorbing idea is terrible.
Victor Hugo
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I keep very weird hours. I never know when I'm going to get an idea.
Sergio Aragones
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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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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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I've very rarely worked with somebody that had such a clear idea of what Alejandro Amenábar wanted to do and what he wanted to achieve. The guy is incredibly prepared. He was clearly making a movie for himself and his own dream. I just tried to be a part of that dream. It's a rare opportunity.
Ethan Hawke
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I like the idea of a family, but I don't know that I'd like to be a single mum.
Heather Graham