Quotes About Originality

There is only a very thin line which separates a genius from the eccentric.

What I want to do is to create a conversation piece and something people remember. I want to make it repetitive enough but not use what I call 'thin thinking' - the kind of thing anyone can do. A hook tells me what you are talking about and it doesn't have to be a lot of words.

The single most powerful thing I can be is to be myself.

How lucky Adam was. He knew when he said a good thing, nobody had said it before.

Don't be intimidated by what you don't know. That can be your greatest strength and ensure that you do things differently from everyone else.

Never do things others can do and will do if there are things others cannot do or will not do.

If you try to make things happen, they start to feel presented. They start to feel premeditated.

The ability to perceive or think differently is more important than the knowledge gained.

I'm an independent thinker and independent leader. I have been my whole life.

A 'new thinker', when studied closely, is merely a man who does not know what other people have thought.

The most original sin is not the thinker's but the poet's.

If you're an original thinker, you are going get told 'no' a lot, and you have to be able to hear 'no' many times from the bankers and trust that at some point, someone is going to recognize that you are an artist and not a can of soda.

The profession of being a creative thinker is not so obvious.

Our economy is built upon convergent thinkers, people that execute things, get them done. But artists and designers are divergent thinkers: they expand the horizon of possibilities.

We need true free thinkers, people who really say what they feel and have good, genuine intentions.

If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.

The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. The first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking.

I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.

I have things in my head that are not like what anyone has taught me - shapes and ideas so near to me - so natural to my way of being and thinking that it hasn't occurred to me to put them down.

I played Othello, but I didn't sit around thinking how Laurence Olivier did it when he played it. That wouldn't do me any good.

I guess I'd like to be known for being an innovator, fostering creativity, thinking outside the box. You know, keeping people playful.

I said to myself, I have things in my head that are not like what anyone has taught me - shapes and ideas so near to me - so natural to my way of being and thinking that it hasn't occurred to me to put them down.

I want to stay ahead and to stay ahead you always have to be thinking out of the box.

Creative thinking - in terms of idea creativity - is not a mystical talent. It is a skill that can be practised and nurtured.