There are no original ideas. There are only original people.
A good scientist is a person with original ideas. A good engineer is a person who makes a design that works with as few original ideas as possible. There are no prima donnas in engineering.
Creativity is the process of having original ideas that have value. It is a process; it's not random.
Some of us have great original ideas and some of us depend on adaptations.
As usual the Liberals offer a mixture of sound and original ideas. Unfortunately none of the sound ideas is original and none of the original ideas is sound.
In big science, the role of the individual scientist must be carefully preserved. So is the one of original ideas and of contributions.
If you do not express your own original ideas, if you do not listen to your own being, you will have betrayed yourself.
We Americans love original ideas. But truly, there are already plenty of good ones out there, ours for the taking. If I were too proud to copy the ideas of others, I likely wouldn't have even a fraction of my current success.
I like rhyme because it is memorable, I like form because having to work to a pattern gives me original ideas.
Couture has copied my things for years, in addition to countless other costume designers, claiming theirs were the original ideas. It's all part of the business, unfortunately.