Top 1200 Original Idea Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

There is no original sin. You don't have to pay repentance to anything or anybody.

be yourself- not your idea of what you think somebody else's idea of yourself should be.

I first told the idea to an editor I had met who, after reading one of my novels for adults that was set in a high school, had an idea that I might write something for children.

My fans are like no other. Completely original people.

Entrepreneurship is a life idea, not a strictly business one; a global idea, not a strictly American one.

Outside of America, there are many people, myself included, who champion values that in some senses could be thought of as traditionally American: The idea that everybody is equal; the idea that the rights of women and men should be the same.

When you're writing something that is truly original it takes time.

I like to start with an idea, but then again, I might be sitting at the keyboard, and just playing a bunch of chords that sound cool together, and something just inspires an idea from that.

Love is one and the same in the original; but there are a thousand different copies of it.

The only parts left of my original body are my elbows.

Sometimes a true original doesn't need to change a thing.

The first dumb idea was to do it at all - to take 'Fargo,' this beloved classic, and turn it into a television show. The second dumb idea, when you do it and it works, was to throw everything out and start again.

A facility for quotation covers the absence of original thought.

You can't write much quality, original music on a concertina.

I went to North Hollywood High. I'm the original Val girl.

When writing poetry, it is not that produces a bright idea, but the bright idea that kindles the fire of.

Money is the original sin in politics and I am not sinless.

A sense of curiosity is nature's original school of education.

I conceived the original 'Deus Ex' and was the project director on the game.

I've heard some tunes in recent years that were pretty close to that same idea. The idea was you turn on the radio and you want to hear some music and up comes a commercial.

Original movies of any size are an endangered species.

Whether he be an original or a plagiarist, man is the novelist of himself.

I have a good idea every two years. Give me a topic, I will give you the idea! [Reputed to have been a remark made to the head of his department at Caltech.]

Because the beauty of the human body is that it hasn't a single muscle which doesn't serve its purpose; that there's not a line wasted; that every detail of it fits one idea, the idea of a man and the life of a man.

And what's strange, what would be marvelous, is not that God should really exist; the marvel is that such an idea, the idea of the necessity of God, could enter the head of such a savage, vicious beast as man.

People often tell me that they have no idea how I can do standup. The idea of trying to make a large group of strangers laugh is, for many, absolutely petrifying - and it is - but there are ways of gradually developing the material that can ease the fear.

I like films that are edgy, provocative, non-formula and original.

The more intensely we feel about an idea or a goal, the more assuredly the idea, buried deep in our subconscious, will direct us along the path to its fulfillment.

When I write a story, I have no idea what I'm doing. All I know is that I want to share something with my readers. The whole idea of writing is this place where you lose control, where you're irresponsible - it's a very liberating place.

We often mistake the original part of ourselves for a weakness.

Acting on a good idea is better than just having a good idea.

I liked the idea of being a writer more than I liked the idea of writing.

At the core, one of my original goals is to redefine what the streets expect.

We would have to invent the U.N. if we did not have it, which is not an original thought.

a novel is not born of a single idea. The stories I've tried to write from one idea, no matter how terrific an idea, have sputtered out and died by chapter three. For me, novels have invariably come from a complex of ideas that in the beginning seemed to bear no relation to each other, but in the unconscious began mysteriously to merge and grow. Ideas for a novel are like the strong guy lines of a spider web. Without them the silken web cannot be spun.

We still listen to the original lush arrangements with the orchestras.

Every spoof gives more power to the original.

I want my voice to be consistent no matter if it's an original or a translation.

The masses have no habit of self-reliance or original action.

It is very difficult to generalise. Everyone's adventure is original.

To be an original is probably the hardest quality to find if you're a young filmmaker.

The original quality in any man of imagination is imagery.

Be yourself, because an original is better than a copy.

I worked next to an elephant. And considering that she could step on your toes, it's a good idea to keep a certain distance. It's also a good idea to befriend the trainer.

And Twin Peaks, the Film is the craziest film in the history of cinema. I have no idea what happened, I have no idea what I saw, all I know is that I left the theater floating six feet above the ground.

I have an idea for a story, and if the idea is going to work, then one of the characters steps forward, and I hear her voice telling the story. This is what has happened with all the books I've written in the first person.

No artist, if he has original talent, can paint like another.

There's not a lot of original ways to get attention in the press.

In drawing, I don't erase. I believe the original gesture has to be the best.

All of our days are numbered. We cannot afford to be idle. To act on a bad idea is better than to not act at all, because the worth of an idea never becomes apparent until you do it.

A poor original is better than a good imitation.

I have a theory that the only original things we ever do are mistakes.

Coming up with something new and original is so exciting.

When you get an idea, so many things come in that one moment. You could write the sound of that idea, or the sound of the room it's in. You could write the clothes the character is wearing, what they're saying, how they move, what they look like. Instead of making up, you're actually catching an idea, for a story, characters, place, and mood - all the stuff that comes. When you put a sound to something and it's wrong, it's so obvious. When it's right, the whole is greater than the sum of the parts. That's a magical thing that can happen in cinema.

When I started the original 'Alien,' Ripley wasn't a woman, it was a guy.

Ideas improve. The meaning of words participates in the improvement. Plagiarism is necessary. Progress implies it. It embraces an author's phrase, makes use of his expressions, erases a false idea, and replaces it with the right idea.

It was during my enchanted days of travel that the idea came to me, which, through the years, has come into my thoughts again and again and always happily-the idea that geology is the music of the earth.

When there is an original sound in the world, it makes a hundred echoes.

Companies over-emphasize idea generation and under-emphasize idea execution when it comes to innovation.

The sole concern of learning is to seek one's original heart.