Original Ideas Quotes

For original ideas to come about, you have to let them percolate under the level of consciousness in a place where we have no way to make them obey our own desires or our own direction. Their random combinations are driven by forces we don't know about.

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.

For the average American, freedom of speech is simply the freedom to repeat what everyone else is saying and no more.

An original idea. That can't be too hard. The library must be full of them.

We need to remember that we are all created creative and can invent new scenarios as frequently as they are needed.

I don't think anybody came into the movie business to be unoriginal and plagiarising and not having an original idea in their brain.

Creativity is the process of having original ideas that have value. It is a process; it's not random.

A person of any mental quality has ideas of his own. This is common sense.

Pavel Durov only knows how to copy great products like Facebook and 'WhatsApp'; he never had and will never have original ideas.

Making a movie like 'Felony' is hard work because you're really putting your own ideas on the screen. You can't hide behind some other person's script; you're saying, 'This is my brain, and I want you to know what I think'.'

You have to think outside the box.

Creativity is a form of knowledge.

Nothing is more powerful than an idea whose time has come - even if it came in a - living room - or to someone - with a humble living.

A new principle is an inexhaustible source of new views.

If we thought more for ourselves we would have very many more bad books and very many more good ones.

Creative people are like a wet towel You wring them out and pick up another one.

Creativity allows people to be effective.

Creativity exists in the present moment. You can't find it anywhere else.

What counts, in the long run, is not what you read; it is what you sift through your own mind; it is the ideas and impressions that are aroused in you by your reading. It is the ideas stirred in your own mind, the ideas which are a reflection of your own thinking, which make you an interesting person

I've got to be honest: I don't listen to any music now. I don't even listen to mine! I like to walk fresh into the studio and have ideas that come straight out of me.

If artists do have ideas, they're often not great.

It is only a man's own fundamental thoughts that have truth and life in them. For it is these that he really and completely understands. To read the thoughts of others is like taking the remains of someone else's meal, like putting on the discarded clothes of a stranger.

I don't ever want to do anything that's obvious, and I also want to find ways to do things that are extremely new and exciting and can make sense in bizarre ways. I always want things to make sense in really bizarre ways.

Don't assume that the answers are out there in the form of somebody else already doing something. Sometimes they are. But you have to think beyond that.

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.