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Creativity is generating ideas that are novel and useful. I define originals as people who go beyond dreaming up the ideas and take initiative to make their visions a reality.

Quotes by Adam Grant

If you've ever had a coworker actively interfere with your productivity, try to make you look bad, steal your ideas, or give you false information, you've been the victim of undermining.

Quotes by Adam Grant

I love discovering compelling new ideas and doing what I can to help spread the word about them.

Quotes by Adam Grant

If you want your children to bring original ideas into the world, you need to let them pursue their passions, not yours.

Quotes by Adam Grant

The most promising ideas begin from novelty and then add familiarity.

Quotes by Adam Grant

To generate creative ideas, it's important to start from an unusual place. But to explain those ideas, they have to be connected to something familiar.

Quotes by Adam Grant

It's cool that our stuff is received as it is, and our stuff is fairly long. But from a songwriter's purview as well as an exercise, I'm trying to write shorter material and find ways to condense ideas.

Quotes by Adam Granduciel

In the battle for Kobane on the Syrian border, everyone talks about the enemy - IS - and the frightening ideas that drive them. No one talks about the Kurdish defenders and what inspires them.

Quotes by Adam Curtis

I have a suspicion that the politicians' revival of the old behaviourist ideas and techniques will be helped and reinforced by a powerful ally - the machines we have built. The computers.

Quotes by Adam Curtis

The ideas which led to the Analytical Engine occurred in a manner wholly independent of any that were connected with the Difference Engine. These ideas are indeed, in their own intrinsic nature, independent of the latter engine and might equally...

Quotes by Ada Lovelace

But the West is trying to weaken Islam from outside and inside. They attack our people and invade our countries from outside, and they weaken us from within with ideas like secularism, liberalism and democracy. This is all designed to...

Quotes by Abu Bakar Bashir

Film is the medium for communicating not just ideas, but things of the heart.

Quotes by Abigail Disney

One great pleasure of being an academic is the ability to trade in ideas with your colleagues and students; it is not much fun being the only connoisseur of some fine point.

Quotes by Abhijit Banerjee

There is resistance to change. There's a resistance to ideas.

Quotes by Abdullah II of Jordan

I spend most of my days pacing around, muttering that I have no ideas, feeling like I'm walking a plank.

Quotes by Aaron Sorkin

One of my top tips for aspiring entrepreneurs: Tell everyone you know about your idea. This runs contrary to the instinct that most people have, because they're afraid someone is going to 'steal my ideal.' Ideas alone are worth very...

Quotes by Aaron Patzer

The Empress has been connected with the ideas of universal fecundity and in a general sense with activity.

Quotes by A. E. Waite

Universities are not here to be mediums for the coercion of other people, they're here to be mediums for the free exchange of ideas.

Quotes by A. Bartlett Giamatti

Everything I do is me. I don't like taking ideas from people unless they're the G.O.A.T.

Quotes by A Boogie wit da Hoodie

Ninety percent of my ideas come to me either when I'm reading or watching a show.

Quotes by Zara Cox

Frequently Asked Questions

Do these quotes suggest ideas come from a particular place?
One pushes back on that notion: "I do not believe that the best ideas come from Washington." It suggests good ideas can come from anywhere, not just centers of power. For more quotes questioning conventional wisdom like this, see Always quotes.
Is there a quote about free speech and access to ideas?
Yes — one connects the two directly: "free speech is not just open dissemination of ideas and information. It includes limitless instant access to those ideas." It frames free speech as more than just the right to speak — also the right to reach information. For more on the value of good access to information, check out Good quotes.
Do any quotes discuss ideas as an escape from reality?
One addresses this directly, and pushes back on the assumption: "Escapism or nostalgia, for me, is not about having a terrible life and trying to get away via imaginary ideas or something." The speaker resists the idea that using imagination means running from a bad life.
Is there a quote about turning ideas into a creative project?
Yes — a personal, honest one: "My wife, Caroline Spector, and I pitched some comic ideas to various publishers back in the '80s, but nothing ever came of it." It's a relatable look at how not every good idea leads to success. If you enjoy honest, relatable reflections like this, Like quotes has more.
What's the common theme across these idea-related quotes?
Together, they show ideas as something personal and often resistant to easy categorization — they can come from anywhere, deserve free access, aren't just escapism, and don't always pan out. For more first-person reflections like these, browse Me quotes.

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