Quotes of: Original-idea Keyword

I'm a little younger than these guys, but I would say all of us are huge fans of the original 'MacGyver' series, and obviously we found that inspiration for the original pitch for 'MacGruber.'

Jorma Taccone

It seems difficult, sometimes, to believe that there was a time when sentiments now become habitual, sentiments that imply not only the original imperative of conduct, but the original metaphysic of living, were by no means altogether habitual.

Lascelles Abercrombie

I don't tend to be a nitpicker when I'm watching movies, so as long as something is true to the spirit of the original, that's very much what we got for. You try to never do something that the original author wouldn't have done themselves.

Jane Goldman

I was creator and executive producer of 'The Brady Bunch' on TV. The stage version was done by others, but it was a repeat of the old scripts. The 'Gilligan' musical is a completely original work with all seven characters and 18 original songs.

Sherwood Schwartz

... a good idea always attracts other good ideas.

Patrick Ness

Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success.

Swami Vivekananda

Old ideas can sometimes use new buildings. New ideas must use old buildings.

Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation

It's not that we need new ideas, but we need to stop having old ideas.

Edwin Land

The first symptom of the trouble appeared when Madison studied Hamilton’s proposal for the funding of the domestic debt. On the one hand, Hamilton’s recommendation looked straightforward: All citizens who owned government securities should be rei...

Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation

Thus, from the war of nature, from famine and death, the most exalted object which we are capable of conceiving, namely, the production of the higher animals, directly follows. There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having b...

The Origin of Species

The most important trait of a writer is an authentic voice. Writers have to have faith in their own voice, and their own way of doing things. Originality is the gem that every writer possesses. Originality also brings on the most merciless attacks. T...

Anne Rice

A good idea will keep you awake during the morning, but a great idea will keep you awake during the night.

Marilyn vos Savant

But in some great souls, who consider themselves as citizens of the world, and forcing the imaginary barriers that separate people from people...

Discourse on the Origin of Inequality

His own opinion, which he does not air, is that the origin of speech lie in song, and the origins of song in the need to fill out with sound the overlarge and rather empty human soul.

Disgrace

Here society is reduced to its original elements, the whole fabric of art and conventionality is struck rudely to pieces, and men find themselves suddenly brought back to the wants and resources of their original natures.

Francis Parkman

When scientific conversations cease, then dogma rather than knowledge begins to rule the day.

The Archaeology of Mind: Neuroevolutionary Origins of Human Emotions

[T]he choice of human groupings for cultural comparisons is not a natural or scientific choice, but a one.

Religion Explained: The Evolutionary Origins of Religious Thought

Evil that arises out of ordinary thinking and is committed by ordinary people is the norm, not the exception.

The Roots of Evil: The Origins of Genocide and Other Group Violence

The whole art of government consists in the art of being honest.

A Summary View of the Rights of British America: Reprinted from the Original Ed.,

[...] pluralism implies religious tolerance, not unchecked religious freedom.

No god but God: The Origins, Evolution and Future of Islam

The greatest importance of the Dead Sea Scrolls...lies in the discovery of biblical manuscripts dating back to only about 300 years after the close of the Old Testament canon.

The Origin of the Bible