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
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
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
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
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
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 we want a better original idea, we must generate our own before we screen others' suggestions. — Adam Grant Copy Share Image
Here's the thing: celebrities understand the power of original ideas because often that's why they act. They want to be in movies… — Glenda Bailey Copy Share Image
Humanity needs more than merely information. We express original ideas, humor, and our personal wills. We express passions and emotions. A person's… — Hideo Kojima 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
I try to construct a picture in which shapes, spaces, colors, form a set of unique relationships, independent of any subject matter.… — Milton Avery Copy Share Image
Right now, 70 percent of the people don't have computers. And where they're needed most, people don't have them. We think this… — Larry Ellison Copy Share Image
What I'm saying is individuals have better ideas if they're connected to rich, diverse networks of other individuals. If you put yourself… — Steven Johnson Copy Share Image
It's important to respect and exhaustively study the masters of music, but as you grow and develop it's important to use their… — Carl Orr Copy Share Image
“CopyCats use Other People’s Ideas (OPI) and often feel deeply frustrated at the overwhelming competition they face. Creatives only compete with themselves, as… — Jen Fraser Copy Share Image
Realizing how often ingenious speculation in the complex biological world has led nowhere and how often the real advances in biology as… — Thomas Hunt Morgan Copy Share Image
The pace of change for entrepreneurs is rapidly accelerating, and the cost and risk of launching a new business and getting off… — Matt Mickiewicz Copy Share Image
In my opinion, nothing has contributed so much to the corruption of the original idea of socialism as the belief that Russia… — George Orwell 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
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 real Antichrist is he who turns the wine of an original idea into the water of mediocrity. — Eric Hoffer 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
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