Top 100 Quotes About Original Ideas
#1. 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
#2. Only very few men have the gift of thinking new and original ideas and of changing the traditional body of creeds and doctrines.
Ludwig Von Mises
#3. 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
#4. 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
#5. But I owe something to Vincent, and that is, in the consciousness of having been useful to him, the confirmation of my own original ideas about painting. And also, at difficult moments, the remembrance that one finds others unhappier than oneself.
Paul Gauguin
#6. I do think that at a certain point, the reboot sequel mode has to give way to original ideas and back to a place where, you know, films are, you know, a medium and the cinema is a place you go to see something that is, you know, wholly new.
J.J. Abrams
#7. 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
#8. The odd thing in this world is that an eager-beaver type, with no original ideas, who mimes those in authority above him right to the last twist of necktie and scrape of chin, always gets noticed. Gets selected. Rises.
Philip K. Dick
#9. 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
#10. 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
#11. 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.
Freeman Dyson
#12. 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
#13. Really good original ideas are very hard to come up with. Good ideas - easy. Really good, original ideas - it can take months.
Nicholas Sparks
#14. Those who say there are no more original ideas need to get out of the way of those of us who are creating them.
Steven Symes
#15. 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
#16. I owe as much of my success to an uncompromising obstinacy as to any original ideas.
Albert Einstein
#17. Creativity is the process of having original ideas that have value. It is a process; it's not random.
Ken Robinson
#18. 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
#19. We think about the world in all ways we experience it ; we think visually, we think in sign, we think kinesthetically, we think in abstract term, we think in movement. Creativity is the process of having original ideas that have value.
Ken Robinson
#20. original ideas are the easy part. Actually producing the idea as a successful product is what is hard.
Donald A. Norman
#21. For original ideas to come about, you have to let them percolate under the level of consciousness in a place where we have no way to make them obey our own desires or our own direction. Their random combinations are driven by forces we don't know about.
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
#22. 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
#23. Teachers should not fear going off plan if a better learning opportunity presents itself. Plans are plans, but children are living, breathing, creative people, who deserve to have their questions answered and original ideas explored.
Adele Devine
#24. A book is not only written - after it's finished it starts writing you, the writer. You become its notebook, its sheet of paper on which it forces you to think and rethink your original ideas, your topics, your research, actually everything.
Sasa Stanisic
#25. It's important to respect and exhaustively study the masters of music, but as you grow and develop it's important to use their discoveries, not as a final destination but as a catalyst for your original ideas.
Carl Orr
#26. 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
#27. 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
#28. The longer I have been on the raw food path, the more I tend to come full circle and return to where my original ideas and inspiration of wanting to eat raw food come from - and that's natural hygiene and its principles.
Kytka Hilmar-Jezek
#29. Pavel Durov only knows how to copy great products like Facebook and 'WhatsApp'; he never had and will never have original ideas.
Jan Koum
#30. Some of us have great original ideas and some of us depend on adaptations.
Frank Darabont
#31. Oh Cecelia, you would have loved my grandmother, Miz Goodpepper said, dunking a cookie into her wine. She was so alive and full of original ideas, especially for that era. While other women were busy being proper, she was busy cultivating her spirit.
Beth Hoffman
#32. 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
#33. 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
#35. The ideas of an age are most abundant where they are not crowded by original ideas.
Franz Grillparzer
#36. 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
Rollo May
#37. I like rhyme because it is memorable, I like form because having to work to a pattern gives me original ideas.
Anne Stevenson
#38. 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
#40. The best work comes from people who are motivated by crisis. When something stops their original idea, they respond by coming up with something even better.
Pharrell Williams
#41. Is it an original idea? Or is it something where you're literally a creative collagist? You're taking pieces of the world that you see around you and that are inside of you and put them together in a way that you see fit.
Abigail Washburn
#42. To be original one needs to learn the ideas of other painters in order to be different from them.
Edgar Alwin Payne
#43. I print giclees for artists and photographers for a livelihood. My original idea was to somehow combine the two.
Donald Lambert
#44. I have not come up with anything original. It needs a better brain than mine! I have done what I can do in taking Dawkins' idea and extending it.
Susan Blackmore
#45. This modern interpretation of Machiavelli's landmark work is perhaps more useful for the modern reader than the original text. His dense ideas have been boiled down to their essence and presented in language that can be easily grasped by the modern mind.
Brandon Musk
#46. This is a sad, sad reflection on our times, when people must feed off
the carcasses of beloved stories from their youths-just because they
can't think of an original idea of their own, like I did with my
Avengers idea that I made up myself
Joss Whedon
#47. No original thought still exists. People are original, each one of them. The same ideas that others had before you are waiting for you to bring them back to life in a new way. The part of who you are that is left behind within these old ideas is what makes them original all over again.
Ashly Lorenzana
#48. Inevitably even the most original new ideas will eventually harden into dogma or stop working for everybody.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#49. If you come up with the original idea on your laptop, anything else is an embellishment of that idea. It's nice to have the option to mix inside a big studio, but at the end of the day, it comes from an original spark, which often happens while sitting on the couch.
Hudson Mohawke
#50. My major contribution to the format was to suggest that I be able to step out of the plot and speak directly to the audience, and then be able to go right back into the action. That was an original idea of mine; I know it was because I originally stole it from Thornton Wilder's play Our Town.
George Burns
#51. The finest minds seem to be formed rather by efforts at original thinking, by endeavours to form new combinations, and to discover new truths, than by passively receiving the impressions of other men's ideas.
Thomas Malthus
#52. An idea you have might not be original. But by creating a novel out of that idea you can make it original.
Umberto Eco
#53. 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
#54. It's how creativity works. Especially in humans. For every good idea, ten thousand idiotic ones must first be posed, sifted, tried out, and discarded. A mind that's afraid to toy with the ridiculous will never come up with the brilliantly original.
David Brin
#55. My experience is that an original and compelling idea for a novel is a rare thing.
James Thayer
#56. The Bolshevik slogans and ideas on the whole have been confirmed by history; but concretely things have worked out differently; they are more original, more peculiar, more varied than anyone could have expected.
Vladimir Lenin
#57. There is no idea so brilliant or original that a sufficiently-untalented writer can't screw it up.
Raymond E. Feist
#58. Once the mind has been expanded by a big idea, it will never go back to its original state.
Thomas Carlyle
#59. Every original idea is first ridiculed, then vigorously attacked, and finally taken for granted.
Arthur Schopenhauer
#60. Keep it simple. Trust your imagination. Discover what is unique about your imagination. Don't simply read a story and copy it.
I go into myself. Then I transcribe what visions I have. If those ideas are original, and you are devoted, you will go far.
Clive Barker
#61. The mind that opens to a new idea never returns to its original size
Albert Einstein
#62. I try to seek out and surround myself with people who just percolate fresh, original, and creative ideas.
Martha Stewart
#63. 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
#64. 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
#65. In my opinion nothing has contributed more to the corruption of the original idea of socialism as the belief that Russia is a socialist country.
George Orwell
#66. A book written within, contains ideas and thoughts from all over, where each page explains itself.
Auliq Ice
#67. Creativity is the ability to produce ideas that are both original and valuable.
Gerard Puccio
#68. My advice to female directors is not to wait until you feel like your ideas have been pre-certified or until you think you've gotten some approval for them. Then it's too late! Follow your gut. That's hard to do, but the only way to be original.
Abigail Disney
#69. Him & Her are born directly from the ideas behind the Panton Chair. An evolution of the hermaphroditic original, declined into the harmony of the two sexes. They assume sculpted forms like naked models of seduction ... but they feel no shame.
Fabio Novembre
#70. As Duke Ellington put it, Henderson "was liberal in giving away his ideas to people. So liberal, in fact, that it is difficult to recognize the original Fletcher Henderson through his flock of imitators."3
Jeffrey Magee
#71. Ideas which have been developed simultaneously or in immediate succession in the same mind mutually reproduce each other, and do this with greater ease in the direction of the original succession and with a certainty proportional to the frequency with which they were together.
Hermann Ebbinghaus
#72. Back then, when I had that original idea to write about the seventeenth century, the whole thing was set in 1666. I was thinking of Margaret near the end of her life, and that was the voice I heard for her.
Danielle Dutton
#73. All genuinely creative ideas are initially met with rejection, since they necessarily threaten the status quo. An enthusiastic reception for a new idea is a sure sign that it is not original.
Eric Weiner
#74. 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
#75. There is good and bad in all of us and the Church uses the idea of original sin to control us by saying that, if we do not obey the bishops, we will rot in Hell.
Tony Benn
#76. ...some of the most important work that we can do as scholars may more closely resemble contemporary editorial or curatorial practices, bringing together, highlighting and remixing significant ideas in existing texts than remaining solely focused on the production of more ostensibly original texts.
Kathleen Fitzpatrick
#77. My concern is that the leaders who are presently responsible for guiding the masses and teaching the people in the church environment, as well as business and corporate, reconnect themselves to God's original idea and that is that God created man to have dominion over the earth.
Myles Munroe
#78. A lot of people are joking about the Windows 10 error message that says 'Something Happened'. Well, that's not on me. My original idea was to not have any errors at all, and for the operating system to be called Windows RT ME One.
Satya Nadella
#79. Success is creating something original and lasting-whether it is a company, a work of art, an idea or analysis that influence others, or a happy and productive family.
Linda Chavez
#80. 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
#81. 'Original Sin' is one of those ideas that has been circulating for several years at the Marvel retreats we have a couple times a year. We have all these ideas floating around for a bit before we figure out how to align them.
Jason Aaron
#83. The original languages didn't even have he and she. They didn't have concepts of masculine and feminine. People were people. And the whole idea was that we were in a circle together, not in a hierarchy together.
Gloria Steinem
#84. 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
#85. Ideas do not need to be esoteric to be original or exciting.
Paul Rand
#86. The Mirror Empire is the most original fantasy I've read in a long time, set in a world full of new ideas, expanding the horizons of the genre. A complex and intricate book full of elegant ideas and finely-drawn characters.
Adrian Tchaikovsky
#87. Because of how much movies cost, it's dangerous to be experimental on one film after the other. But we can experiment with television. We can do things that are fringe and bring ideas to the table that are offbeat and original.
Steven Spielberg
#88. My original idea for the cover was better - decapitate Paul - but he wouldn't go along with it.
John Lennon
#89. I tend to work on a song, generate ideas, and re-arrange it like five times, and I'm glad I take the time to do that, because I think my original songs come out better.
Britta Phillips
#90. You never want to have a movie be derivative, because that's the worst if you ask me. I always want to be in original material, or an original idea, or an original vision, rather than a rehash of some other movie.
Dylan McDermott
#91. All my pictures are a kind of revision of my original idea. This is surely very different from the way in which Japanese or Chinese artists work: their themes are pre-ordained, whereas mine are invented at will.
Antoni Tapies
#92. Ideas are cheap and plentiful. The original pitch idea is such a small part of a business that it's almost negligible. The real question is how well you execute.
Jason Fried
#93. The fact is that one new idea leads to another, that to a third and so on through a course of time, until someone, with whom no one of these ideas was original, combines all together, and produces what is justly called a new invention.
Thomas Jefferson
#94. 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
#95. Great ideas often have no reference points.
We have nothing to compare them to. They are original, and awkward. And so they are the most vulnerable to people trying to kill them. They do not conform to what exists, so they challenge us.
David Hieatt
#96. If we want a better original idea, we must generate our own before we screen others' suggestions.
Adam Grant
#97. A mathematician, like a painter or a poet, is a maker of patterns.
G.H. Hardy
#98. The reason the art world doesn't respond to Kinkade is because none - not one - of his ideas about subject-matter, surface, color, composition, touch, scale, form, or skill is remotely original. They're all cliche and already told.
Jerry Saltz
#99. I think some bands thrive on the idea of changing instruments. When they're off their real instrument, the ability to go very far from the original idea is reduced.
Tom Waits
#100. Anything that has to travel all the way down from your cerebellum to your fingertips, there's a lot of things that can happen on the journey. Sometimes I'll listen to records, my own stuff, and I think god, the original idea for this was so much better than the mutation that we arrived at.
Elvis Costello
