Quotes About Originality

The first thing a genius needs is to breathe free air.

If people never did silly things nothing intelligent would ever get done.

When we can't think for ourselves, we can always quote

Why have I not genius to start some new thought? Some thing that will surprise the world?

I have gathered a posy of other men's flowers and nothing but the thread that binds them is mine own.

You should always be trying to write a poem you are unable to write, a poem you lack the technique, the language, the courage to achieve. Otherwise you're merely imitating yourself, going nowhere, because that's always easiest.

The problem with popular thinking is that it doesn't require you to think at all." —Kevin Myers

You must reject common thinking if you want to accomplish uncommon results.

The hero is the one with ideas.

next time you feel ready to conform to popular thinking on an issue, stop and think.

Creativity is being able to see what everybody else has seen and think what nobody else has thought so you can do what nobody else has done.

People need your influence, but it will not come through 'lip syncing' those you admire.

Those who follow the crowd will never be followed by a crowd.

You have to be yourself while speaking someone else's language.

John C. Maxwell

Como dijo Steve Jobs: "La creatividad es simplemente conectar cosas. Cuando uno le pregunta a la gente creativa cómo hicieron algo, se sienten un poco culpables porque en realidad ellos no lo hicieron; ellos solo vieron algo, y les pareció obvio después de un rato".

He was not a practical joke nor was he a fool but he was determinedly original and had a vague and modest idea of himself as a legendary figure.

Fiction is experimentation; when it ceases to be that, it ceases to be fiction.

He was not a practical joker nor was he a fool but he was determinedly original and had a vague and modest idea of himself as a legendary figure. The day was beautiful and it seemed to him that a long swim might enlarge and celebrate its beauty.

Was his memory failing or had he so disciplined it in the repression of unpleasant facts that he had damaged his sense of the truth? He was not a practical joke nor was he a fool but he was determinedly original and had a vague and modest idea of himself as a legendary figure. He was not a practical joke nor was he a fool but he was determinedly original and had a vague and modest idea of himself as a legendary figure.

Creativity is not a talent; it's a way of operating.

New ideas are rather like small creatures. They're easily strangled.

When you're being creative there is no such thing as a mistake.

learning from something or someone you admire is not stealing. It's called "being influenced by.