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• If we want a better original idea, we must generate our own before we screen others' suggestions.

  Adam Grant

  Ideas, Suggestions, Want

  "Give & Take with Adam Grant, Top Contrarian Self-Help Expert". Interview with Marty Nemko, www.psychologytoday.com. December 31, 2015.

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• 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.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Dream, Reading, Book

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• 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

  Ideas, Bored, Pages

  "Nina Dobrev’s New Chapter". Interview with Michael Peña, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 8, 2015.

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• 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.

  Warren Buffett

  Reading, Thinking, Ideas

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• 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

  Thinking, Journey, Ideas

  "Summit Talk". Option magazine Interview with Tom Waits, tomwaitsfan.com. July 1989.

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• 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

  Errors, Ideas, People

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• I try to construct a picture in which shapes, spaces, colors, form a set of unique relationships, independent of any subject matter. At the same time I try to capture and translate the excitement and emotion aroused in me by the impact with the original idea.

  Milton Avery

  Independent, Unique, Impact

  Milton Avery, Ruth Fine, M. Knoedler & Co (2007). “Magical means: Milton Avery and watercolor”

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• After a short period of time in Pakistan, it's clear that drones are not a security solution. If you believe in drones, the original idea was to go after so-called high-value targets, which according to the NYU-Stanford study 2% of the people killed by drones are high-value targets - now, who are all the rest of the people? Well, it's a secret program, so therefore the CIA doesn't have to tell us anything, yet they claim that with each attack they're getting militants. Now we have people coming forward, saying, actually, no we're not terrorists.

  Robert Greenwald

  Believe, Ideas, Nyu

  Source: www.salon.com

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• 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

  Ideas, Vision, Want

  Source: collider.com

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• 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

  Real, Thinking, Ideas

  Source: tomwaitsfan.com

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• 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

  Creativity, Thinking, Ideas

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• 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

  Thinking, Reflection, Ideas

  "Joss Whedon bares his teeth over new Buffy film" by Ben Child, www.theguardian.com. November 23, 2010.

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• 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

  Ideas, People, Motivated

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• 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.

  Thomas Hunt Morgan

  Real, Mean, Eye

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• I think there are a substantial number of scientists who have manipulated data so that they will have dollars rolling into their projects. And I think we are seeing almost weekly or even daily scientists are coming forward and questioning the original idea that man-made global warming is what is causing the climate to change.

  Rick Perry

  Men, Thinking, Numbers

  "Rick Perry accuses scientists of 'manipulating' climate data". www.theguardian.com. August 18, 2011.

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• I don't consider myself a musician who has achieved perfection and can't develop any further. But I compose my pieces with a formula that I created myself. Take a musician like John Coltrane. He is a perfect musician, who can give expression to all the possibilities of his instrument. But he seems to have difficulty expressing original ideas on it. That is why he keeps looking for ideas in exotic places. At least I don't have that problem, because, like I say, I find my inspiration in myself.

  Thelonious Monk

  Inspiration, Expression, Ideas

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• But having had your bright, fresh, original idea, the really hard part is turning it into a successful product. That's what takes all the sweat.

  Trevor Baylis

  Successful, Sweat, Ideas

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• My original idea was to produce and not make records myself.

  T Bone Burnett

  Ideas, Records, Produce

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• It's just like music when you reckon it up. It's like, listening to Pavement, it's just the Fall in 1985, isn't it? They haven't got an original idea in their heads.

  Mark E. Smith

  Fall, Ideas, Listening

  "20 Years On: Revisiting Pavement's Slanted And Enchanted" by Jim Keoghan, thequietus.com. April 27, 2012.

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• 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

  Ideas, Creative, Together

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• 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

  Passion, Views, Ideas

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• Look, I know you meant well creating the world and all, but how could you let it get away from you like this? How come you couldn't stick with your original idea of paradise? People's lives were a mess.

  Sue Monk Kidd

  Ideas, Creating, People

  Sue Monk Kidd (2003). “The Secret Life of Bees”, p.171, Penguin

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• 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.

  Meister Eckhart

  Knowledge, Ideas, Soul

  "The Reading and Preaching of the Scriptures in the Worship of the Christian Church". Book by Hughes Oliphant Old, 1999.

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• 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

  Years, Ideas, Costumes

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• An Internet meme is a hijacking of the original idea. Instead of mutating by random change and spreading by a form of Darwinian selection, Internet memes are altered deliberately by human creativity. There is no attempt at accuracy of copying, as with genes - and as with memes in their original version.

  Richard Dawkins

  Creativity, Ideas, Hijacking

  "The Very Best of Richard Dawkins: Quotes from a Devout Atheist". Book by Gordon Fisher, 2014.

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