Originality Quotes - Page 15

• If there's an original thought out there, I could use one right now.

  Bob Dylan

  Use, Original Thought, Right Now

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• The perpetual obstacle to human advancement is custom.

  John Stuart Mill

  Progress, Overcoming, Advancement

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• Many have original minds who do not think it - they are led away by custom!

  John Keats

  Thinking, Mind, Originals

  John Keats (2015). “John Keats - The Man Behind The Lyrics: Life, letters, and literary remains: Complete Letters and Two Extensive Biographies of one of the most beloved English Romantic poets”, p.439, e-artnow

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• It is not possible to be original by trying to be original - those who attempt this in the arts will be merely avant-garde. Originality is the product of an impulse to intense and overwhelming that it bursts the conventions and produces something new - again more by accident than design.

  Michael Foley

  Art, Design, Trying

  Michael Foley (2010). “The Age of Absurdity: Why Modern Life makes it Hard to be Happy”, p.10, Simon and Schuster

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• A man who has not enough originality to think out a new title for his book will be much less capable of giving it new contents.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Book, Men, Thinking

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer (illustrated)”, p.21, Full Moon Publications

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• From an art perspective, I dont know how you get better than Beetlejuice. In terms of originality and a look, its 100% unique.

  Michael Keaton

  Art, Unique, Perspective

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• The proponents of Steinitz' theory - Tarrasch and his supporters - tried to express Steinitz' teaching in the form of laconic rules, and as often happens in such cases, they went too far. The laconic tended to become dogmatic, and chess began to lose its freshness, originality and charm.

  Alexander Kotov

  Teaching, Chess, Charm

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• Profundity and originality are attributes of single, if not singular, minds.

  Edwin Land

  Individuality, Mind, Attributes

  Edwin Herbert Land (1983). “Selected papers on industry”

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• There is no such thing as group originality, group creativity or group perspicacity.

  Edwin Land

  Creativity, Individuality, Groups

  Edwin Herbert Land (1983). “Selected papers on industry”

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• Creativity is not simply originality and unlimited freedom. There is much more to it than that. Creativity also imposes restrictions. While it uses methods other than those of ordinary thinking, it must not be in disagreement with ordinary thinking-or rather, it must be something that, sooner or later, ordinary thinking will understand, accept, and appreciate. Otherwise the result would be bizarre, not creative.

  Silvano Arieti

  Art, Creativity, Thinking

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• That was the very centre of his genius - he invented things that anyone could have thought of, and men who can invent things that anyone could have thought of are very rare men.

  Terry Pratchett

  Men, Genius, Centre

  Terry Pratchett (2016). “The Last Hero”, p.37, Hachette UK

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• Yet he saw that in all places there was originality, resulting from the human efforts at decoration and ingenious methods of survival.

  Michael O'Brien

  Effort, Survival, Saws

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• Regarding The Music Man, Jay Nordlinger wrote: The Music Man (for which Willson also wrote the lyrics) is an astonishing creation. It came in a spurt of brilliance. It is shot through with originality, verve, and-why not go all the way?-genius. People love it, can't get enough of it, can't stop performing it-and they are not wrong. For closing in on a half- century now, The Music Man has been performed continually, in every American city, town, and village, and in other parts of the world as well, not excluding Peking.

  Meredith Willson

  Men, Cities, People

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• The invention of IQ did a great disservice to creativity in education. ... Individuality, personality, originality, are too precious to be meddled with by amateur psychiatrists whose patterns for a "wholesome personality" are inevitably their own.

  Joel Henry Hildebrand

  Education, Creativity, Science

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• I wonder how far Moses would have gone if he'd taken a poll in Egypt? What would Jesus Christ have preached if he'd taken a poll in Israel? Where would the Reformation have gone if Martin Luther had taken a poll?

  Harry S. Truman

  Inspirational, Change, Leadership

  "Off the Record: The Private Papers of Harry S. Truman".

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• A truly creative person rids him or herself of all self-imposed limitations.

  Gerald Jampolsky

  Inspirational Life, Creativity, Self

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• Originality is not doing something no one else has ever done, but doing what has been done countless times with new life, new breath.

  Marie Chapian

  Smoking, New Life, Done

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• By being yourself, you put something wonderful in the world that was not there before.

  Edwin Bailey Elliott

  Inspirational, Life, Being Yourself

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• While still sixteen I am put in charge of a class of forty children who are two, three or four years younger than I. I fall in love with them. They are my possession, my mob whose forty minds, under my flashy and domineering control, are to become one, a mind unsullied by errors, unmarked by blots, contaminated by misplaced originalities outside the curriculum, and as full of facts as a pomegranate seed.

  Hal Porter

  Love, Children, Fall

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• Creativity is the defeat of habit by imposing originality and change.

  Andy Law

  Creativity, Defeat, Habit

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• It is impossible to think of a man of any actual force and originality, universally recognized as having those qualities, who spent his whole life appraising and describing the work of other men.

  H. L. Mencken

  Men, Thinking, Quality

  H. L. Mencken (2009). “Prejudices: Third Series”, p.87, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Originality in art puts charm where it wasn't.

  Eli Siegel

  Art, Fairness, Charm

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• To seek in the great accumulation of the already-said the text that resembles "in advance" a later text, to ransack history in order to rediscover the play of anticipations or echoes, to go right back to the first seeds or to go forward to the last traces, to reveal in a work its fidelity to tradition or its irreducible uniqueness, to raise or lower its stock of originality, to say that the Port -Royal grammarians invented nothing, or to discover that Cuvier had more predecessors than one thought, these are harmless enough amusements for historians who refuse to grow up.

  Michel Foucault

  Growing Up, Knowledge, Science

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• Today's world needs change, alteration, renewal, and corrections of errors. It needs new ideas, new approaches, methods, plans, procedures, and new ways of doing things. Maybe you should think of going-literally or symbolically- to a circus today, where you'll see stunts you never dreamed possible. The novelty and originality there may stimulate what you need more of in this life. Have the daring to take a flight for the idea you believe in!

  Wilferd Peterson

  Believe, Thinking, Errors

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• It is altogether an extraordinary growing, swarming, glittering, pushing, chattering, good-natured, cosmopolitan place, and perhaps in some ways the best imitation of Paris that can be found (with a great originality of its own).

  Henry James

  New York, Paris, Growing

  Henry James, Leon Edel (1987). “Henry James, Selected Letters”, p.184, Harvard University Press

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