Sentence examples for already existing ideas from inspiring English sources

It is particularly hard to resolve this problem owing to the nature of Zoroastrianism itself as a religion that has always drawn heavily on already existing ideas and that has accommodated itself to various forms of Iranian religions.

Creativity is not a talent to produce out of nothing, but the capability to create new ideas/product by combining or reapplying already existing ideas (Plucker et al. 2004).

"Only two of this year's top 10 movies are original works - Inceptionand Despicable Me - with the rest cobbled together" from already existing ideas.

But are these revolutions, or evolutions of existing ideas?

Much of the answer is a bundle of existing ideas.

PN∗ combines several existing ideas.

Does it confirm or refute existing ideas and theories?

Most methodological aspects of the new method combine existing ideas.

Feel free to learn and build on existing ideas.

You do so by comparing your idea with already existing ones, ideally from two thousand years ago, as if your thoughts were, say, the logical conclusion of the teachings of Confucius, Buddha, or Jesus Christ, etc.

This 'contrapuntal writing', if you will, involves finding truly complimentary and also usefully abrasive passages in the already existing works and fusing them, drawing out musical ideas hidden within the originals, merely suggested or which exist at some dialogic midpoint.