Gza Quotes

Everything begins with an idea.

The most original minds borrowed from one another.

Creative drives our business; the business doesn't drive the creative.

Fundamentally there is a narrative around where innovation can come out from.

Where do ideas come from? Ideas come from other ideas.

Every piece of technology, every piece of art, basically everything manmade comes from an idea.

The hardest thing is the idea. Ideas come from somewhere but as far as we know they come from nowhere.

Most of us don't invent ideas. We take the best ideas from someone else.

Creativity is a spark. It can be excruciating when we're rubbing two rocks together and getting nothing. And it can be intensely satisfying when the flame catches and a new idea sweeps around the world.

The next Bill Gates will not start an operating system. The next Larry Page won't start a search engine. The next Mark Zuckerberg won't start a social network company. If you are copying these people, you are not learning from them.

I believe that nothing comes of nothing, even in Shakespeare. I wanted to know where he got the matter he was working with and what he did with that matter.

A lot of times, you have an idea, and all the things you are thinking about might fuel it. But that's not where the idea came from.

That's the buzz for me, the creative process. An idea is never as good as when it's in your head. And then it's just how little you ruin it.

What entrepreneurs and artists have in common is that they give the world something it didn't know it was missing.

Coming up with novel ideas and converting them into real products has always been as natural as breathing for me.

I like to come up with new ideas and see them grow.

Rarely, someone comes around that is influenced by so many things but is looking for a new way to do something.

I'm no innovator. If anything I'm a stealer, or borrower. I've stolen or borrowed from more people than you can shake a stick at.

Usually, the best ideas come from other people's good ideas, which then, after a short gestation period, become your ideas.

I think it's better to have ideas.

One musician listens to another musician, and you get inspired and then you do your thing, but it's yours.

I don't believe in originality in art. I think we exist on this earth to inspire each other, through our actions, through our deeds, and through who we are. We're always borrowing.

You'll never know how close you are to a million-dollar idea unless you're willing to listen.

That's the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you.

I'm terrible on facts. But I always have an idea. If you have an idea, you're well ahead