Quotes of: Original-idea Keyword

The best way to get a good idea is to have a lot of ideas.

Linus Pauling

Do not be afraid to offer ideas that draw opposition. Remember, if no one is against your idea, then your idea probably doesn't do anything.

Marco Rubio

If your first idea could not get famous say the second idea in order to train a person to follow your first Idea.

Mohammad Rishad sakhi

The Internet is just a chance to do something. Nowhere else can you go, 'I have an idea, I can write this idea, and I can execute this idea.'

Paul Scheer

Although scientists can often be as resistant to new ideas as anyone, the process of science ensures that, over time, good ideas and theories prevail.

Dean Ornish

Human beings are accustomed to think of intellect as the power of having and controlling ideas and of ability to learn as synonymous with ability to have ideas. But learning by having ideas is really one of the rare and isolated events in nature.

Edward Thorndike

I never said I had no idea about most of the things you said I said I had no idea about.

Elliott Abrams

An idea that is developed and put into action is more important than an idea that exists only as an idea.

Edward de Bono

Getting an idea for a book is not the problem, but you need 300 ideas - an idea a page.

Barbara Mertz

This idea that a book can either be about character and feeling, or about politics and idea, is just a false binary. Ideas are an expression of the feelings and the intense emotions we hold about the world.

Richard Powers

I have been taunted on various platforms recently for becoming a neo-conservative, and have been the object of some fascinating web-site and blog stuff, from the isolationist Right as well as from the peaceniks, who both argue in a semi-literate way ...

Christopher Hitchens and His Critics: Terror, Iraq, and the Left

While most science moves in a sort of curve, being constantly corrected by new evidence, this science flies off into space in a straight line uncorrected by anything. But the habit of forming conclusions, as they can really be formed in more fruitful...

The Everlasting Man

In principle, to be sure, the Reformation idea of the universal priesthood of all believers meant that not only the clergy but also the laity, not only the theologian but also the magistrate, had the capacity to read, understand, and apply the teachi...

Jesus Through the Centuries: His Place in the History of Culture

It was in the attempt to ascertain the interrelationships between species that experiments n genetics were first made. The words "evolution" and "origin of species" are now so intimately associated with the name of Darwin that we are apt to forger th...

Mendel's Principles of Heredity

Given the freedom to create, everybody is creative. All of us have an innate, instinctive desire to change our environment, to put our original stamp on this world, to tell a story never told before. I’m absolutely thrilled at the moment of creativ...

Up Till Now

Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it.

Laurence J. Peter

Hippies? Why, I'm the original.

Jerry Lee Lewis

I feel as though, if I were to extend my hand just a little toward the pool where the ideas ferment, I could grab at the idea and pull it out of the pool and onto the floor where ideas must stand before the jury of the brain. There, it must present i...

The Asylum for Wayward Victorian Girls

(In reply to the question, 'Would you like some suggestions for a plot for your next book?') There are three problems with getting plot suggestions from other people. The first is that ideas are the easy part of writing; finding the time and energy t...

Patricia C. Wrede

I can discover nothing in any mere animal but an ingenious machine, to which nature has given senses to wind itself up, and guard, to a certain degree, against everything that might destroy or disorder it.

A Discourse Upon the Origin and the Foundation of the Inequality Among Mankind

The Scots (originally Irish, but by now Scotch) were at this time inhabiting Ireland, having driven the Irish (Picts) out of Scotland; while the Picts (originally Scots) were now Irish (living in brackets) and vice versa. It is essential to keep thes...

1066 and All That: A Memorable History of England