Browsing Topic Best Original Ideas Quotes

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.

Believe in something larger than yourself … to get involved in some of the big ideas of our time.

Every original idea is first ridiculed, then vigorously attacked, and finally taken for granted.

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.

I like rhyme because it is memorable, I like form because having to work to a pattern gives me original ideas.

There are no original ideas. There are only original people.

Almost all new ideas have a certain aspect of foolishness when they are first produced.

If I have a thousand ideas and only one turns out to be good, I am satisfied.

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.

I owe as much of my success to an uncompromising obstinacy as to any original ideas.

Every really new idea looks crazy at first.

How very seldom do you encounter in the world a man of great abilities, acquirements, experience, who will unmask his mind, unbutton his brains, and pour forth in careless and picturesque phrase all the results of his studies and observation; his knowledge of men, books, and nature. On the contrary, if a man has by any chance an original idea, he hoards it as if it were old gold; and rather avoids the subject with which he is most conversant, from fear that you may appropriate his best thoughts.

Ideas won’t keep. Something must be done about them.

New ideas pass through three periods: 1) It can’t be done. 2) It probably can be done, but it’s not worth doing. 3) I knew it was a good idea all along!

So with science, it’s original idea was to ignore the spiritual or nebulous side of reality and to strictly work on concrete things. Say there’s a brick which we cut it in half and then see there’s two half’s of a brick. If we keep cutting we can then see there’s particles and so on and so forth.

There’s a lot [of coaches], and I think in this profession, none of us invented this game, we got it from someone else, and if there’s an idea, there’s probably never been an original idea in football.

Somewhere along the way, the idea, which I think was initially to get some fair transaction between people, went out the window. And what came in was, the most you can get and the least you can give. That’s why cars are the way they are nowadays. It’s just an erosion of all the things that were true and right about the original idea.

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.

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.

Deceit for personal gain is one of history’s most recurring crimes. Man’s first step towards change would be thinking, counter-arguing, re-thinking, twisting, straightening, perfecting, then believing every original idea he intends to make public before making it public. There is always an angle from which an absolute truth may appear askew just as there is always a personal emotion, or a personal agenda, which alienates the ultimate good of mankind.

My own view, which does not rely solely on religious faith or even on an original idea, but rather on ordinary common sense, is that establishing binding ethical principles is possible when we take as our starting point the observation that we all desire happiness and wish to avoid suffering.

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.

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.

The poor Constitution itself is hardly paid any attention to. It’s necessary to ignore it because most of what government does these days is clearly unconstitutional. The original idea, as expressed by James Madison, was that states would do 95 percent of the governing. Today, they are little more than administrative subdivisions of the central empire.

For someone who is starting out on developing their critical skills, just being aware of its existence is great: it can make the difference between trying to write a story around a cliche or an original idea, and better still, studying it can eventually clue you in on how to breathe new life into tired tropes.

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.

So long as new ideas are created, sales will continue to reach new highs.

What’s given, in fact, always depends on the person or thing it’s given to. A minor incident in the street brings the cook to the door and entertains him more than I would be entertained by contemplating the most original idea, by reading the greatest book, or by having the most gratifying of useless dreams. If life is basically monotony, he has escaped it more than I. And he escapes it more easily than I. The truth isn’t with him or with me, because it isn’t with anyone, but happiness does belong to him.

The ideas of an age are most abundant where they are not crowded by original ideas.

I print giclees for artists and photographers for a livelihood. My original idea was to somehow combine the two.

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.

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.

Don’t worry about people stealing your ideas.

Everyone is a genius at least once a year.

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.