Quotes & Sayings About Stolen Ideas

On her daughter Melissa: The only time she really cried is when I sat her down and told her that she was not adopted. — Joan Rivers

Of course, your ideas can be stolen ... I used to think it was immoral; now I think of it as a compliment ... Ultimately, an idea isn't yours; it's only your take on something. — Peter Wolf

Cautionary Moral: Don't let your heart overrule your head. — Kris Waldherr

All fiction is to some degree contrived. If it is not contrived, then it actually happened, therefore making it a stolen idea. Ideas and concepts in this world, in our lives, and in our imagination are much more finite than any of us would care to believe. — Connor De Bruler

Never fear having your ideas stolen. Your creative idea is a image you are painting like a picture on a canvas, they may "steal" your idea, however they cannot steal your paints. — Sumner Davenport

For several years the researchers did not let anyone else in on their work, not because they were afraid it would be stolen, but because they were afraid that their colleagues would laugh at their seemingly crazy ideas. — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

I have been an unabashed fan of NPR for many years, and have stolen untold excellent ideas from its programming. — Ted Koppel

The lobby of the Nelson Hotel always smells of the river
it's in the pores of the place
but this evening the smell is heavier than usual. It's a smell that makes us think of bad ideas, blown investments, forged checks, deteriorating health, stolen office supplies, unpaid alimony, empty promises, skin tumors, lost ambition, abandoned sample cases filled with cheap novelties, dead hope, dead skin, and fallen arches.
This is the kind of place you don't come to unless you've been here before and all your other options are pretty much foreclosed. It's a place where men who left their families two decades before now lie on narrow beds with pee-stained mattresses, coughing and smoking cigarettes. — Stephen King

Rules are meant to be broken. — Donald J. Trump

You always hope that the cloak of inspiration will fall, and you'll be O.K. — Gary Oldman

Keep watch and pray, so that you will not give in to temptation. For the spirit is willing, but the body is weak. — Anonymous

From the day whe arrived at her husband's home, no one called her by her name. — Lauretta Ngcobo

Your poetry--it doesn't deserve to be locked away, hidden from the rest of the world. And neither do you. — Tessa Emily Hall

I found powerful the idea that everything we have is, in effect, stolen from everybody else. — Daniel Handler

Even though I've never met my dad and don't really want to, I share some of his talents. Along with being the messenger of the gods, Hermes is the god of merchants-which explains why I'm good with money-and travelers, which explains why the divine jerk left my mom and never came back. He's also the god of thieves. He's stolen things like-oh, Apollo's cattle, women, good ideas, wallets, my mom's sanity, and my chance at a decent life.
Sorry, did that sound bitter? — Rick Riordan

Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet. — Aristotle.

Confound these ancestors ... They've stolen our best ideas! — Ben Jonson

As you get older, you have to force yourself to have new dreams. For instance, I've been flying for 37 years, but now teaching others to fly is interesting for me. Sometimes you have to find new angles on life to keep you interested, like sharing successes and inspiring and helping others. — John Travolta

I have stolen ideas from every book I have ever read. — Philip Pullman

The hardest part about writing fiction is finding long stretches of time to do it: for me, this means writing mostly on Saturdays and Sundays. But I am always thinking about my characters, jotting down ideas in stolen moments and hoping I'll be able to make sense of them when the weekend rolls around. — J. Courtney Sullivan

We have stolen many ideas from many intellectuals we have ever read. — Abdul'Rauf Hashmi

I've always had the opinion that we have shamelessly stolen any good ideas, — Brad Stone

There are many things that you can avoid by just knowing something. Knowledge of self is the most notable knowledge I pursue. By knowing myself, I avoided dead dreams and a meaningless life. — Innocent Mwatsikesimbe

Step into this moment, because it is the only one you have right now. It is not wasted or thrown away. The divine opportunity could be stolen unless you tell yourself it is here right now; available to you this moment, to make of it anything you choose. Why not choose this moment, right now, to be available to yourself by declaring, I AM GOOD! ... The richness of the present is here. The fullness of now is present. If you are not here now, it means you could be missing the love, joy, peace and brand-new ideas that are here right now. — Iyanla Vanzant