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.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Some of us have great original ideas and some of us depend on adaptations.
I admire American ideas.
There are many selfish people who are extremely original, then they take those pure ideas and use them to raise themselves up, that is an insincere move.
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.
I think I am too interested in my own ideas to copy anyone else's, but I find that other people's imagery, the flow of language in the outside world, games with words, and ideas about relationships are all most important to me.
If you are an American, you must allow all ideas to circulate freely in your community, not merely your own.
If the idea is really new and unique and big, other people will all think it is bad and is going to fail.
It's not that we need new ideas, but we need to stop having old ideas.
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.
There are no original ideas. There are only original people.