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Original Idea Quotes

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
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. Freeman Dyson
Barbara Grizzuti Harrison quote: "There are no original ideas. There are only original people."
There are no original ideas. There are only original people. Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
Franz Grillparzer quote: "The ideas of an age are most abundant where they are not..."
The ideas of an age are most abundant where they are not crowded by original ideas. Franz Grillparzer
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
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... Fernando Pessoa
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
I got entangled in my own data, and my conclusion directly contradicts the original idea from which I start. Starting from unlimited freedom, I conclude with unlimited despotism. I will add, however, that apart from my solution of the social formula, there can be no other. Fyodor Dostoevsky
But that's not a very original idea, is it? It's really just a platitude ... sort of like a Florida sunset, Nevertheless, it happens to be the truth, and the truth deserves to be spoken... if you can say it in a new way, I tried to put it in a picture. Stephen King
I said before that McDonald's serves a kind of comfort food, but after a few bites I'm more inclined to think they're selling something more schematic than that--something more like a signifier of comfort food. So you eat more and eat more quickly, hoping somehow to catch up to the original idea of a cheeseburger or French fry as it retreats over the horizon. And so it goes, bite after bite, until you feel not satisfied exactly, but simply, regrettably, full. Michael Pollan
Stephen Fry quote: "An original idea. That can't be too hard. The library must be..."
An original idea. That can't be too hard. The library must be full of them. Stephen Fry
Our original idea was to help three or four hundred candidates in the first election run for the Ohio State legislature and the California legislature around the country. Pete du Pont
Anne Stevenson quote: "I like rhyme because it is memorable, I like form because..."
I like rhyme because it is memorable, I like form because having to work to a pattern gives me original ideas. Anne Stevenson
Frank Darabont quote: "Some of us have great original ideas and some of us depend on..."
Some of us have great original ideas and some of us depend on adaptations. Frank Darabont
Rollo May quote: "If you do not express your own original ideas, if you do not..."
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

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