Quotes on Original Ideas

Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.

The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.

I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.

Don't equate activity with efficiency. You are paying your key people to see the big picture. Don't let them get bogged down in a lot of meaningless meetings and paper shuffling. Announce a Friday afternoon off once in a while. Cancel a Monday morning meeting or two. Tell the cast of characters you'd like them to spend the amount of time normally spent preparing for attending the meeting at their desks, simply thinking about an original idea.

We think about the world in all ways we experience it ; we think visually, we think in sign, we think kinesthetically, we think in abstract term, we think in movement. Creativity is the process of having original ideas that have value.

The way to get good ideas is to get lots of ideas and throw the bad ones away.

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

Creativity is the process of having original ideas that have value

You do things when the opportunities come along. I've had periods in my life when I've had a bundle of ideas come along, and I've had long dry spells. If I get an idea next week, I'll do something. If not, I won't do a damn thing.

I have things in my head that are not like what anyone has taught me - shapes and ideas so near to me - so natural to my way of being and thinking that it hasn't occurred to me to put them down.

Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together.

New ideas pass through three periods: 1) It can't be done. 2) It probably can be done, but it's not worth doing. 3) I knew it was a good idea all along!

Anticipatory plagiarism occurs when someone steals your original idea and publishes it a hundred years before you were born.

To turn really interesting ideas and fledgling technologies into a company that can continue to innovate for years, it requires a lot of disciplines.

Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into practice with courageous impatience.

But I owe something to Vincent, and that is, in the consciousness of having been useful to him, the confirmation of my own original ideas about painting. And also, at difficult moments, the remembrance that one finds others unhappier than oneself.

No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change the world.

It's easy to come up with new ideas; the hard part is letting go of what worked for you two years ago, but will soon be out-of-date.

My ideas usually come not at my desk writing but in the midst of living.

In my opinion nothing has contributed more to the corruption of the original idea of socialism as the belief that Russia is a socialist country.

If I have a thousand ideas and only one turns out to be good, I am satisfied.