The ideas of an age are most abundant where they are not crowded by original ideas. — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping from the old ones. — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
Some of us have great original ideas and some of us depend on adaptations. — Frank Darabont Copy Share Image
Using the computer to record was a cool way to keep all the original ideas intact. — Tony Kanal Copy Share Image
To create man was a quaint and original idea, but to add the sheep was tautology. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
There are no original ideas. There are only original people. — Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Copy Share Image
Eveyone is a genius at least once a year. A real genius has his original ideas closer together. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If we want a better original idea, we must generate our own before we screen others' suggestions. — Adam Grant Copy Share Image
The real Antichrist is he who turns the wine of an original idea into the water of mediocrity. — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
The best work comes from people who are motivated by crisis. When something stops their original idea, they respond by coming up… — Pharrell Williams Copy Share Image
If you want your children to bring original ideas into the world, you need to let them pursue their passions, not yours. — Adam Grant Copy Share Image
In my opinion nothing has contributed more to the corruption of the original idea of socialism as the belief that Russia is… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Every original idea is first ridiculed, then vigorously attacked, and finally taken for granted. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
It's just like music when you reckon it up. It's like, listening to Pavement, it's just the Fall in 1985, isn't it?… — Mark E. Smith Copy Share Image
You can have brilliant ideas, but if you can't get them across, your ideas won't get you anywhere. Lee Iacocca Love is… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
We Americans love original ideas. But truly, there are already plenty of good ones out there, ours for the taking. If I… — Mohnish Pabrai Copy Share Image
It can certainly happen that characters in more sophisticated stories can ake over as they develop and change the author's original ideas.… — Margaret Mahy Copy Share Image
Look, I know you meant well creating the world and all, but how could you let it get away from you like… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
As for borrowing Mr. Whistler's ideas about art, the only thoroughly original ideas I have heard him express have had reference to… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
We all have original ideas. Even if we don't see ourselves as supercreative or as wild nonconformists, we have insights every day… — Adam Grant Copy Share Image
I think there are a substantial number of scientists who have manipulated data so that they will have dollars rolling into their… — Rick Perry Copy Share Image
The only problem with Microsoft is they just have no taste. They have absolutely no taste. And I don't mean that in… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
By the time I actually recorded Bitter Tears I carried a heavy load of sadness and outrage; I felt every word of… — Johnny Cash Copy Share Image
How very seldom do you encounter in the world a man of great abilities, acquirements, experience, who will unmask his mind, unbutton… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
It does not follow because many books are written by persons born in America that there exists an American literature. Books which… — Margaret Fuller Copy Share Image
Deceit for personal gain is one of history's most recurring crimes. Man's first step towards change would be thinking, counter-arguing, re-thinking, twisting,… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
The so-called ‘crank’ may be quite original in his ideas. … Invention, however, in the engineering sense involves originality; but not that… — Elihu Thomson Copy Share Image
“I want to debunk the myth that originality requires extreme risk taking and persuade you that originals are actually far more ordinary… — Adam M. Grant Copy Share Image
What's given, in fact, always depends on the person or thing it's given to. A minor incident in the street brings the… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
No mathematician should ever allow him to forget that mathematics, more than any other art or science, is a young man's game.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“There's a theme that appears in much of your work," I say to Maurice on my last visit to Connecticut, "and I… — Jonathan Cott Copy Share Image
We wish you more and more original ideas! An a lot of luck, of course — Hussein Nishah Copy Share Image
The original idea [ of the Pineapple Express] came from Judd [Apatow] actually. He just kind of had the loose notion of… — Seth Rogen Copy Share Image
Some people have no original ideas because they do not think well enough of themselves to consider their ideas worth noticing and… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
![“No mathematician should ever allow him to forget that mathematics, more than any other art or science, is a young man's game. ... Galois died at twenty-one, Abel at twenty-seven, Ramanujan at thirty-three, Riemann at forty. There have been men who have done great work later; ... [but] I do not…” quote by Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/876/anonymous-1_abel_no-mathematician-should-ever-allow-him-t_651008.jpg)
![“There's a theme that appears in much of your work," I say to Maurice on my last visit to Connecticut, "and I can only hint at it because it's difficult to formulate or describe. It has something to do with the lines: 'As I went over the water/the water went over me' [from As I Went over the Water]…” quote by Jonathan Cott](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/b48/jonathan-cott-68554_books_there-s-a-theme-that-appears-in-much-of_2126353.jpg)
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