Quotes About Originality

A willingness to go against the conventional wisdom was one of the side effects of looking at the world in a particular light.

A man who ain't got ideas of his own should be mighty careful who he borrows 'em from.

Why do you have to be the same as the others? ...Most of them are stupid.

He Who Marches Out Of Step Hears Another Drum

If you're not prepared to be wrong, you'll never come up with anything original.

One of the enemies of creativity and innovation, especially in relation to our own development, is common sense.

There are three related ideas, which I will elaborate as we go on. They are imagination, which is the process of bringing to mind things that are not present to our senses; creativity, which is the process of developing original ideas that have value, and innovation, which is the process of putting new ideas into practice.

I define creativity as the process of having original ideas that have value.

was, "If you're not prepared to be wrong, you'll never produce anything original." The second was, "Great education depends on great teaching.

What is true is that if you're not prepared to be wrong, you'll never come up with anything original.

Creativity is the strongest example of the dynamic nature of intelligence, and it can call on all areas of our minds and being.

Creativity is a step beyond imagination because it requires that you actually do something rather than lie around thinking about it. It's a very practical process of trying to make something original. It may be a song, a theory, a dress, a short story, a boat, or a new sauce for your spaghetti. Regardless, some common features pertain.

veces, equivocarse significa simplemente equivocarse. Pero si no estás preparado para equivocarte, nunca se te ocurrirá nada original.

She just needed to be who she really was.

Haz zig cuando todo el mundo haga zag».

Kids aren't particularly worried about being wrong. If they aren't sure what to do in a particular situation, they'll just have a go at it and see how things turn out. This is not to suggest being wrong is the same thing as being creative. Sometimes being wrong is just being wrong. What is true is that if you're not prepared to be wrong, you'll never come up with anything original.

To make use of our imaginations we need to take them one step further: we need to be creative. If imagination is the ability to bring to mind things that are not present to our senses, then creativity is the process of putting your imagination to work. It is applied imagination

If you're not prepared to be wrong, you'll never come up with anything original.

Creativity is as important as literacy

Take the tech blog Boing Boing, for instance. They're one of the most visible blogs on the web, but they create very little original content. Rather they act as a filter for the morass of information, pulling up the best stuff. The fact of Boing Boing linking to something far outweighs the thing they're linking to. The culture of citation and name-checking on the web has resulted in a cascade of "re-" gestures: retweeting, reblogging, regramming, and reposting

Problem is, "everyone else" is as crowd-like as "everyone." Their opinions usually aren't unique, and their analysis often isn't any broader or better than the main crowd

I'll explain what I just said." She turned to look squarely at Captain Hudson. "I'll have to explain something else, too. I am not Lt. Charlotte Tennyson. I am her clone!

Art does not have to be dull, to be effective; the artist does not have to be a bore, to be real.

Inspiration is never genuine if it is known as inspiration at the time. True inspiration always steals on a person; its importance not being fully recognized for some time.