By Alfred Nobel
If I have a thousand ideas and only one turns out to be good, I am satisfied.
SIMILAR QUOTES
Wake up with determination, go to bed with satisfaction.
I try to live with the idea that karma is a very real thing. So I put out what I want to get back.
Never play with the feelings in relationship, because you have no idea how karma plays the game.
The truth about karma you should know – Understanding the fundamental idea about karma and figure out how to control it.
The idea of karma is that you continually get the teachings that you need to open your heart.
Integrity is the ability to stand by an idea.
Paris is always a good idea.
It’s that wonderful old-fashioned idea that others come first and you come second. This was the whole ethic by which I was brought up. Others matter more than you do, so “don’t fuss, dear; get on with it.”
The world is my idea.
Golf is deceptively simple and endlessly complicated; it satisfies the soul and frustrates the intellect. It is at the same time rewarding and maddening – and it is without a doubt the greatest game mankind has ever invented.
It is the compelling power of great thoughts and ideas to engender phrases of equal size.
There is nothing that I shudder at more than the idea of a separation of the Union. Should such an event ever happen, which I fervently pray God to avert, from that date I view our liberty gone.
I intend to leave after my death a large fund for the promotion of the peace idea, but I am skeptical as to its results.
I am grateful for the idea that has used me.
It is the lone worker who makes the first advance in a subject: the details may be worked out by a team, but the prime idea is due to the enterprise, thought, and perception of an individual.
It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world.
Earning happiness means doing good and working, not speculating and being lazy. Laziness may look inviting, but only work gives you true satisfaction.
Almost all new ideas have a certain aspect of foolishness when they are first produced.
Fundamental progress has to do with the reinterpretation of basic ideas.
Ideas won’t keep; something must be done about them.
