Quotes of: Original-idea Keyword

Originally I had planned to revert to nuclear physics there, in particular the structure of the deuteron.

Walter Kohn

The highest activities of consciousness have their origins in physical occurrences of the brain just as the loveliest melodies are not too sublime to be expressed by notes.

W. Somerset Maugham

If you feel driven and compelled to make your work and to be fiercely original and have something unique to say, in a compelling way, then chances are the helpers will be there for you the doors will open some, the ice will crack.

David Knopfler

I think we do have our true, original stories that work. I can tell you that 'The King's Speech,' which we did, became a worldwide smash because people loved the personal story.

Harvey Weinstein

While listening, to things like western swing, for instance, I'd work something out in my head, then play it on my National; not the same song, but one that captured the feeling of the original tune.

Mark Knopfler

If your mind is at work, we're in danger of reproducing another cliche. If we can keep our minds out of it and our thoughts out of it, maybe we'll come up with something original.

Peter Falk

All too often, when creative people pick out someone else's creative work as an inspiration, what they end up with is very, very far from the original.

Samuel R. Delany

I am suspicious of writers who say their work is original and influenced by nobody. If it is, it is probably uninteresting. The biggest source of novels is other novels.

Teju Cole

Fernanda Andrade and Daphne Zuniga are two beautiful, inspiring women I met and became very close with while living in L.A. Daphne's father is from Central America, and Fernanda is originally from Brazil.

Torrey DeVitto

Wise men talk about ideas, intellectuals about facts, and the ordinary man talks about what he eats.

Mongolian

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.

Conversation with the Earth

An average idea enthusiastically embraced will go farther than a genius idea no one gets.

Disrupt You!: Master Personal Transformation, Seize Opportunity, and Thrive in the Era of Endless Innovation

Sure, it was your idea and your fly, but he caught the big fish. Remember, fairness is a human idea largely unknown in nature.

Death, Taxes, and Leaky Waders: A John Gierach Fly-Fishing Treasury

An idea is like a virus. Resilient. Highly contagious. The smallest seed of an idea can grow. It can grow to define...or destroy you.

Economic Warfare: Secrets of Wealth Creation in the Age of Welfare Politics

In recent times, more and more human thinking has come to assume that the idea of a universal natural law and the idea of 'God' are pointing to one and the same reality.

Ether, God and devil : cosmic superimposition

You can have many great ideas in your head, but what makes the difference is the action. Without action upon an idea, there will be no manifestation, no results, and no reward

The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom

Big oaks grow from small acorns, and activity is a precursor to accomplishment. You don't think yourself into success.

Fred 2.0: New Ideas on How to Keep Delivering Extraordinary Results

Money is not the first step to becoming a great achiever. Your ideas determine the cost you will need to pay. So if you have no ideas, you can't know the amount you will need!

The Great Hand Book of Quotes

I don't think that women ought to sit down at table with men. It ruins conversation and I'm sure it's very bad for them. It puts ideas in their heads, and women are never at ease with themselves when they have ideas.

Of Human Bondage

How to be happy starts with self love, being proud of who you are and making happiness a daily choice.

How to Be Happy in Life: Easy to Use Happiness Tips, Ideas and Strategies to Be Happy

Sometimes you want to say things, and you're missing an idea to make them with, and missing a word to make the idea with. In the beginning was the word. That's how somebody tried to explain it once. Until something is named, it doesn't exist.

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