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  • Don't worry about people stealing your ideas.

    "A Computer Science Reader : Selections from Abacus" by Eric A. Weiss, (p. 404), 1988.
  • 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.

    Book   Men   Ideas  
    "Coningsby". Book by Benjamin Disraeli, Book VII, Ch. 2, 1844.
  • 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.

    Source: pitchfork.com
  • The pace of change for entrepreneurs is rapidly accelerating, and the cost and risk of launching a new business and getting off the ground is just amazing. The ability to gain user feedback really quickly and adapt to what your consumers want is totally different with the web as it is now. But finding a new market, helping people and taking that original idea and turning it into a business is really exciting right now.

  • 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.

    Ideas   Two   Problem  
    Barry Nalebuff, Ian Ayres (2006). “Why Not?: How to Use Everyday Ingenuity to Solve Problems Big and Small”, p.14, Harvard Business Press
  • ...I am exceedingly anxious that this Union, the Constitution, and the liberties of the people shall be perpetuated in accordance with the original idea for which that struggle was made, and I shall be most happy indeed if I shall be an humble instrument in the hands of the Almighty, and of this, his almost chosen people, for perpetuating the object of that great struggle.

    Struggle   Humble   Hands  
    Abraham Lincoln (2008). “The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln”, p.236, Wildside Press LLC
  • The mind, once stretched by a new idea, never returns to its original dimensions.

  • 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.

    Writing   Heart   Winning  
  • It's easy to come up with new ideas; the hard part is letting go of what worked for you two years ago, but will soon be out-of-date.

    Roger Von Oech (1986). “A Kick in the Seat of the Pants: Using Your Explorer, Artist, Judge, & Warrior to Be More Creative”, Harper Perennial
  • The best way to have a good idea is to have a lot of ideas.

  • 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.

  • 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.

    Source: theindiespiritualist.com
  • I don't have big ideas. I sometimes have small ideas, which seem to work out.

    "WordPress, Matt Mullenweg". Interview With Patrick Barkham, www.theguardian.com. November 3, 2006.
  • 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.

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

  • [Liv Corfixen] very much part of my life in that she's everything in my life and we found a way to use each other much more on a creative level as well. She was kind of the idea for this movie so I wanted to acknowledge that. She gave me the original idea to make the film.

    Ideas   Creative   Way  
    Source: uk.businessinsider.com
  • There are no original ideas. There are only original people.

  • 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, Ian Angus, Sheila Davison (1998). “It is what I think, 1947-1948”, Martin Secker & Warburg Ltd
  • 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.

    "Triumph of the Nerds", June 12, 1996.
  • My ideas usually come not at my desk writing but in the midst of living.

    Life   Writing   Ideas  
  • Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.

    John Steinbeck, Thomas Fensch (1988). “Conversations with John Steinbeck”, p.124, Univ. Press of Mississippi
  • Realizing how often ingenious speculation in the complex biological world has led nowhere and how often the real advances in biology as well as in chemistry, physics and astronomy have kept within the bounds of mechanistic interpretation, we geneticists should rejoice, even with our noses on the grindstone (which means both eyes on the objectives), that we have at command an additional means of testing whatever original ideas pop into our heads.

    Real   Mean   Eye  
  • A mathematician, like a painter or poet, is a maker of patterns. If his patterns are more permanent than theirs, it is because they are made with ideas.

    Education   Math   Unique  
    G. H. Hardy (2012). “A Mathematician's Apology”, p.84, Cambridge University Press
  • I've learned mainly by reading myself. So I don't think I have any original ideas. Certainly, I talk about reading Graham. I've read Phil Fisher. So I've gotten a lot of my ideas from reading. You can learn a lot from other people. In fact, I think if you learn basically from other people, you don't have to get too many new ideas on your own. You can just apply the best of what you see.

  • 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.

    Quoted in Truth, Jan. 1890
  • Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats.

    "A Computer Science Reader : Selections from Abacus" by Eric A. Weiss, (p. 404), 1988.
  • Knowledge comes through likeness. And so because the soul may know everything, it is never at rest until it comes to the original idea, in which all things are one. And there it comes to rest in God.

    Knowledge   Ideas   Soul  
    "The Reading and Preaching of the Scriptures in the Worship of the Christian Church". Book by Hughes Oliphant Old, 1999.
  • By the time I actually recorded Bitter Tears I carried a heavy load of sadness and outrage; I felt every word of those songs... I expected there to be trouble with that album, and there was.... when it was released, many radio stations wouldn't play it.... The very idea of unconventional or even original ideas ending up on "country" radio in the late 1990s is absurd.

    Country   Song   Sadness  
  • 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.

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