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A great idea is usually original to more than one discoverer. Great ideas come when the world needs them. Great ideas surround the world's ignorance and press for admission.

— Elizabeth Stuart Phelps

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

Some of the best ideas come from sheer discovery, and not by some masterminded, preconceived genius.

— Spike Jonze

An absolutely new idea is one of the rarest things known to man.

— Thomas More

Every so often in life, you encounter a brilliant idea. Usually, at least in my case, it's somebody else's idea.

— Jean Hanff Korelitz

I think having a great idea is vastly overrated. I know it sounds kind of crazy and counterintuitive. I don't think it matters what the idea is, almost. You need great execution.

— Felix Dennis

A real idea keeps changing and appears in many places.

— Mason Cooley

Theorists have wonderful ideas which take years and years to be verified.

— David Gross

I actually don't have a great surplus of ideas. Some evolve very slowly, over many years, but I sort of trust that all of the interesting ones will become something that I eventually end up doing.

— Miranda July

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

— Linus Pauling

✗Opposing Perspectives

If the idea is really new and unique and big, other people will all think it is bad and is going to fail.

— Peter Diamandis

The really good idea is always traceable back quite a long way, often to a not very good idea which sparked off another idea that was only slightly better, which somebody else misunderstood in such a way that they then said something which was really rather interesting.

— John Cleese