Quotes About Borrowing Ideas

#1. God has given you the same brain, so use your own in stead of borrowing ideas from somebody else. Think about and fathom the ideas before following them.

Raj Singh

#2. Caltech is a very adventurous place. Part of the culture is that we tolerate people doing things that seem impossible, and also synthesizing and borrowing ideas across very kooky and unusual boundaries.

Colin Camerer

#3. I scarcely ever," he said, with an unconscious and colossal arrogance, "hear of anything on the face of the earth that I do not understand at once, without going to see it." And he led the way out into the purple night.
The Club of Queer Trades

G.K. Chesterton

#4. What good does it do me if Christ was born in Bethlehem once if he is not born again in my heart through faith?

Origen

#5. 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

#6. Nothing you did made sense
and nothing you'll ever do.

Michael Hogan

#7. Surprisingly, I'm not a fan of guns or anything like that!

Caitlin Stasey

#8. Ideas excite me, and as soon as I get excited, the adrenaline gets going and the next thing I know I'm borrowing energy from the ideas themselves.

Ray Bradbury

#9. No, not rich. I am a poor man with money, which is not the same thing.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#10. I was a middle child. I grew up in Brooklyn with three sisters and a brother. You know what that means: everybody is constantly fighting with everybody and you are in the middle of the storm trying to make peace. That is your life. Making everybody work and play well together.

Richard Parsons

#11. Don't let yourself off the hook with excuses.

Jason Fried

#12. Seeing other people do great work is its own form of inspiration and far more powerful than borrowing their ideas.

Kody Chamberlain

#13. [I'm concerned with] aesthetics and this idea of how the passage between life and death goes. I can visually present that by borrowing this Buddhist statue.

Hiroshi Sugimoto

#14. I am no longer going to go along with this idea that we're going to keep spending and borrowing and taking over and raising taxes, that I'm going to do everything I can to change things.

Chris Matthews