Sentence examples for picked up ideas from inspiring English sources

And she picked up ideas from extensive travels.

Like all good entrepreneurs, Young picked up ideas from a wide variety of sources.

She describes herself as "just a good home cook" who picked up ideas from her stays in Europe and Hawaii.

And many apps have picked up ideas and applied Twitter innovations to their own products, including Facebook.

A former buyer for Pottery Barn, Ms. Fatino recalled how she and her retailing colleagues often picked up ideas for merchandise at boutique hotels in Europe and Asia.

Dogged, and determined to educate himself, he had studied English grammar and picked up ideas about trade unionism; fascinated by Xhosa history and culture, he had written about tribal heroes for the publication Bantu World.

"Radcliffe has this terrific visual acuity where he travels around the world and picks up ideas from artists of many different backgrounds and generations, throws them into his hopper and comes out with something completely original," Mr. Rooks said.

But they hang around gabfests to pick up ideas, not to win contracts.

All along, however, Bowie was picking up ideas he would subsequently pull into focus.

"What happens is that you pick up ideas here and there," she told me.

Artists often circle back, picking up ideas that their predecessors left undeveloped and trying to push them further.