Henry David Thoreau Quotes

Coming up with a good idea, with an insight into the way the world works that is really new and that you really believe in, is a deeply satisfying experience.

There is no such thing as a new idea. We simply take a lot of old ideas and put them into a sort of mental kaleidoscope.

Millions of men have lived to fight, build palaces and boundaries, shape destinies and societies; but the compelling force of all times has been the force of originality and creation profoundly affecting the roots of human spirit.

What makes our world so fascinating is that continuously there are novel and creative ideas spurring people to leave old ways and try something new.

Art is about building a new foundation, not just laying something on top of what's already there.

True genius can be identified by the fact that its expression changes the world into something it has never been before.

Creativity is a by-product of hard work. If I never have another really new idea, it won't matter.

New ways I go, a new speech comes to me; weary I grow, like all creators, of the old tongues. My spirit no longer wants to walk on worn soles.

The collision of a great man with a great idea strikes fire in dry flax.

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.

If there's a new idea, a new invention, or a new gas, or a new whatever you know, It should be brought at least into the open instead of carrying these same old burdens around with you.

Copying isn’t particularly creative work. Being inspired by someone else’s idea to produce something new and different IS creative work.

As our case is new, we must think and act anew.

There are no new ideas. There are only new ways of making them felt.

It is only in the shadows, when some fresh wave, truly original, truly creative, breaks upon the shore, that there will be a rediscovery of the West.

I'm always looking for something new: a new inspiration, a new philosophy, a new way to look at something, new talent.

It should be one's sole endeavor to see everything afresh and create it anew.

In the creative industries, there are few things more exciting than a zinger - a thought, idea, line, plot device - anything really, that just totally works in a fundamentally new and fresh way. It's like a uniquely lovely melody or a new taste idea in cooking. Something special, something new, something wonderful. They're also very rare.

Creative thinking inspires ideas. Ideas inspire change.

You have to be as original as possible. It's a tough thing to come up with something totally original.

Novelty always sparks ideas.

As a songwriter, you always want to search for something that's right in front of you that you can twist into something new.

The antidote to stagnation is innovation.

Every time we create something new we go from zero to one.

Some of the best ideas come sort of out of nowhere and when you're not expecting it.