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There are no original ideas. There are only original people. -- Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
Some of us have great original ideas and some of us depend on adaptations. -- Frank Darabont
If you do not express your own original ideas, if you do not listen to your own being, you will have betrayed yourself. -- Rollo May
As usual the Liberals offer a mixture of sound and original ideas. Unfortunately none of the sound ideas is original and none of the original ideas is sound. -- Harold MacMillan
A good scientist is a person with original ideas. A good engineer is a person who makes a design that works with as few original ideas as possible. There are no prima donnas in engineering. -- Freeman Dyson
What I'm saying is individuals have better ideas if they're connected to rich, diverse networks of other individuals. If you put yourself in an environment with lots of different perspectives, you yourself are going to have better, sharper, more original ideas. It's not that the network is smart. -- Steven Johnson
Creativity is the process of having original ideas that have value -- Ken Robinson
An original idea. That can't be too hard. The library must be full of them. -- Stephen Fry
The real Antichrist is he who turns the wine of an original idea into the water of mediocrity. -- Eric Hoffer
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 had. -- Diana Rigg
Some people have no original ideas because they do not think well enough of themselves to consider their ideas worth noticing and developing. -- Eric Hoffer
Creativity is the process of having original ideas that have value - more often than not, comes about through the interaction of different disciplinary ways of seeing things -- Ken Robinson
It can certainly happen that characters in more sophisticated stories can "take over" as they develop and change the author's original ideas. Well, it certainly happens to me at times. -- Margaret Mahy
As cliched as it sounds, if you have an original voice and an original idea, then no matter what anybody says, you have to find a way to tell that story. -- Damon Lindelof
Men want to be reminded, who do not want to be taught; because those original ideas of rectitude to which the mind is compelled to assent when they are proposed, are not always as present to us as they ought to be. -- Edmund Burke
We Americans love original ideas. But truly, there are already plenty of good ones out there, ours for the taking. If I were too proud to copy the ideas of others, I likely wouldnt have even a fraction of my current success. -- Mohnish Pabrai
The only problem with Microsoft is they just have no taste. They have absolutely no taste. And I don't mean that in a small way, I mean that in a big way, in the sense that they don't think of original ideas, and they don't bring much culture into their products. -- Steve Jobs
Well, it was never supposed to be like that. Walt died before we had finished. The original idea of Walt's was that you came down there, into the caves, and there were no pirates. But they had been there just seconds before! There was a hot meal on the table, steaming. -- John Hench
Essayists must not only be succinct but have original ideas and, even harder to come by, or to fake, likable voices. Consciously or not, they endeavor to win us over by charm. If an essayist can not only charm but write the unforgettable sentence, one that reveals the heart in a few words, I'm her slave. -- Cyra McFadden
Before I start carving the idea must be almost complete. I say 'almost' because the really important thing seems to be the sculptor's ability to let his intuition guide him over the gap between conception and realization without compromising the integrity of the original idea; the point being that the material has vitality - it resists and makes demands... -- Barbara Hepworth
Really, the moment you have any idea, the second thought that enters your mind after the original idea is, "What is this? Is it a book, is it a movie, is it a this, is it a that, is it a short story, is it a breakfast cereal?" Really, from that moment, your decision about what kind of thing it is then determines how it develops. -- Douglas Adams
Some of the best inventive moments are born out of 'wrong thinking'. Most people start with the right way so they all follow the same path. The wrong way will lead to mistakes from which you can learn and create new discoveries-the kind of original ideas that come to life when we dare to be different, keep an open mind, and have no fear of failure. -- James Dyson
We want to be known for having original ideas, inspired hunches, and gut feelings that make a difference. Indeed, a "well-honed sixth sense"' is considered a measure of the good clinician. But being a good doctor also requires sticking with the best medical evidence, even if it contradicts your personal experience. We need to distinguish between gut feeling and testable knowledge, between hunches and empirically tested evidence. -- Robert A. Burton
Disney usually doesn't do pitches for original ideas. -- Richard LaGravenese
The ideas of an age are most abundant where they are not crowded by original ideas. -- Franz Grillparzer
Creativity is the process of having original ideas that have value. It is a process; it's not random. -- Ken Robinson
I like rhyme because it is memorable, I like form because having to work to a pattern gives me original ideas. -- Anne Stevenson
In big science, the role of the individual scientist must be carefully preserved. So is the one of original ideas and of contributions. -- Carlo Rubbia
Couture has copied my things for years, in addition to countless other costume designers, claiming theirs were the original ideas. It's all part of the business, unfortunately. -- Edith Head
It can certainly happen that characters in more sophisticated stories can 'take over' as they develop and change the author's original ideas. Well, it certainly happens to me at times. -- Margaret Mahy
We Americans love original ideas. But truly, there are already plenty of good ones out there, ours for the taking. If I were too proud to copy the ideas of others, I likely wouldn't have even a fraction of my current success. -- Mohnish Pabrai
Ideas are infinite, original, and lively divine thoughts. -- Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
No Ideas original - there is nothing new under the sun... -- Nas
Ideas do not need to be esoteric to be original or exciting. -- Paul Rand
Creativity is the ability to produce ideas that are both original and valuable. -- Gerard Puccio
I owe as much of my success to an uncompromising obstinacy as to any original ideas. -- Albert Einstein
I try to seek out and surround myself with people who just percolate fresh, original, and creative ideas. -- Martha Stewart
To be original one needs to learn the ideas of other painters in order to be different from them. -- Edgar Alwin Payne
One of the most original and most important ideas advanced by Hayek is the role of the 'division of knowledge' in economic society. -- Fritz Machlup
The ideas of the wise have been tested by centuries. Everything medium is lost and only original, deep and useful things are left. -- Leo Tolstoy
Really good original ideas are very hard to come up with. Good ideas - easy. Really good, original ideas - it can take months. -- Nicholas Sparks
I don't know if there's a problem with original ideas... I think a healthy film industry should have a good supply of good, original writing. -- Colin Firth
The emphasis and value on ideas and original thinking is an innate part of British culture, and in many ways, that describes the traditions of design. -- Jonathan Ive
There are many selfish people who are extremely original, then they take those pure ideas and use them to raise themselves up, that is an insincere move. -- Daniel Smith
I'm bored with the same genre, the same remakes of things. I like original ideas and high-concept things where it's off the page and kind of fantastical. -- Nina Dobrev
Keep on the lookout for novel ideas that others have used successfully. Your idea has to be original only in its adaptation to the problem you're working on. -- Thomas A. Edison
Because ideas have to be original only with regard to their adaptation to the problem at hand, I am always extremely interested in how others have used used them.... -- Thomas A. Edison
A great idea is usually original to more than one discoverer. Great ideas come when the world needs them. Great ideas surround the world's ignorance and press for admission. -- Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward
A great idea is usually original to more than one discoverer. Great ideas come when the world needs them. Great ideas surround the world's ignorance and press for admission. -- Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward
Most "original" ideas aren't completely original, but instead are the result of two basic methods for generating ideas: problems in search of solutions and solutions in search of problems. -- Barry Nalebuff
I get it that remakes are a drag to hear about. I'm on the Internet all the time. I know what they say. Like there's no original ideas in Hollywood. -- Michael De Luca
Humanity needs more than merely information. We express original ideas, humor, and our personal wills. We express passions and emotions. A person's point of view conveys all of these aspects of identity. -- Hideo Kojima
As for borrowing Mr. Whistler's ideas about art, the only thoroughly original ideas I have heard him express have had reference to his own superiority as a painter over painters greater than himself. -- Oscar Wilde

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