If we want a better original idea, we must generate our own before we screen others' suggestions. — Adam Grant Copy Share Image
“In your lifetime, if you can come up with one original idea, you have accomplished a great deal.” — Max Roach Copy Share Image
To create man was a quaint and original idea, but to add the sheep was tautology. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
An original idea. That can't be too hard. The library must be full of them. — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
My original idea for the cover was better - decapitate Paul - but he wouldn't go along with it. — John Lennon Copy Share Image
Today, people tend to credit me with having the original idea and made the first circuits. — Jack Kilby Copy Share Image
The original idea of the web was that it should be a collaborative space where you can communicate through sharing information. — Tim Berners-Lee 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
It's true that the original idea was mine, but what you see today is the work of probably tens of thousands of… — Jack Kilby Copy Share Image
Our original idea was to help three or four hundred candidates in the first election run for the Ohio State legislature and… — Pete du Pont 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
Back then, when I had that original idea to write about the seventeenth century, the whole thing was set in 1666. I… — Danielle Dutton 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
It's not really an original idea, but there's something that goes along with power and celebrity that starts to make you feel… — Jonathan Dee Copy Share Image
I have not yet learned to live, that I can see, and I fear that I shall not very soon. I find,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Digital photography is, by definition, unfinished. You don't feel that after every 24 or 36 shots you have to change your film… — Abbas Kiarostami Copy Share Image
The way Fatboy Slim layers motifs is the same as 18th-century baroque counterpoint. You have an idea, then you have an answer… — Charles Hazlewood Copy Share Image
The original idea of blog publishing was that writer and reader would be on the same level. That it would be a… — Nick Denton Copy Share Image
Somewhere along the way, the idea, which I think was initially to get some fair transaction between people, went out the window.… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
More than often, what you see, or what we've been able to recreate, has usually been a tampered-with version of what I… — Tobias Forge Copy Share Image
The whole idea is preserving the music and the art and not having us and our faces and our individual characters distract… — Justin Chancellor Copy Share Image
My major contribution to the format was to suggest that I be able to step out of the plot and speak directly… — George Burns Copy Share Image
“When I advocate for protecting the new, then, I am using the word somewhat differently. I am saying that when someone hatches… — Ed Catmull Copy Share Image
“This is the core challenge of speaking up with an original idea. When you present a new suggestion, you’re not only hearing… — Adam M. Grant Copy Share Image
There may be no less original idea than the notion that our hearts hold dominion over our heads. — Nancy Gibbs Copy Share Image
The original idea for Justin.tv was a terrible idea. So if something like that can eventually become successful, then anyone can be… — Justin Kan Copy Share Image
Is it an original idea? Or is it something where you're literally a creative collagist? You're taking pieces of the world that… — Abigail Washburn Copy Share Image
Writing is much more satisfying on a certain level than acting ever was. Because you're not interpreting someone else's original idea, you… — Michael Beck Copy Share Image
Similarities in the vampire genre are so rampant that there's really no such thing as an original idea - only an original… — Jeaniene Frost Copy Share Image
Just because you can make an album on a laptop computer in your back bedroom doesn't mean it's going to be any… — Horace Panter Copy Share Image
The original idea before Mint was a life and goal planning system I called Carpe Viva. The idea was that all of… — Aaron Patzer Copy Share Image
All my pictures are a kind of revision of my original idea. This is surely very different from the way in which… — Antoni Tapies Copy Share Image
I love being directed. Because it's another thought, it's another fresh idea. You're so grateful for an original idea that you haven't… — Diana Rigg Copy Share Image
As cliched as it sounds, if you have an original voice and an original idea, then no matter what anybody says, you… — Damon Lindelof Copy Share Image
I often wonder why people remake movies. Is there just a lack of imagination out there that they can't come up with… — Michael Beck Copy Share Image
I work off of my early demos. I'll keep adding on top of that, but I usually gravitate towards whatever that original… — Adam Granduciel Copy Share Image
But having had your bright, fresh, original idea, the really hard part is turning it into a successful product. That's what takes… — Trevor Baylis Copy Share Image