“Originality is a device that untalented people use to impress other untalented people to protect themselves from talented people...” — William Gaddis Copy Share Image
The genius is the man who has genuine and deep human relations with others, who does not cut himself off in the… — Ignacy Jan Paderewski Copy Share Image
“A well-designed life is a life that is generative—it is constantly creative, productive, changing, evolving, and there is always the possibility of… — Bill Burnett Copy Share Image
“To be original, you don't need to be a prodigy or a revolutionary. You just need the mindset and will to challenge… — Edify.me Copy Share Image
Intelligence is just one dimension of ability. Don't limit yourself to it. Open up to instinct, intuition, creativity and thus possibility — Rasheed Ogunlaru Copy Share Image
“When you learn how to control your mind, you open a door to the vastness of creativity, inspiration, and brilliance that is… — S.J. Scott Copy Share Image
When I'm at home creating music, I usually wind up laughing. It's always, like, funny - like, what the hell did I… — Thundercat Copy Share Image
Copying isn’t particularly creative work. Being inspired by someone else’s idea to produce something new and different IS creative work. — Shia LaBeouf Copy Share Image
The wonderful thing about theater is that anything, no matter how tendentious, no matter how stupid it sounds at first glance, can… — Terry Teachout Copy Share Image
“It is our responsibility to keep telling these tales--to tell them in a way that they teach and entertain and give meaning… — Brian Jay Jones Copy Share Image
There is a theory that creativity arises when individuals are out of sync with their environment. To put it simply, people who… — Gary Taubes Copy Share Image
“Though beauty is autonomous, there seem to be occasions when human presence can become congruent with her will. In creative work no… — John O'Donohue Copy Share Image
“The end toward which mankind is inexorably developing by the constant overcoming of internal antagonisms is not the enjoyment, ownership, or use… — C.L.R. James Copy Share Image
You become more divine as you become more creative. All the religions of the world have said God is the creator. I… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The public make use of the classics of a country as a means of checking the progress of Art. They degrade the… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
By changing our inner state of mind, we can change any suffering or hardship into a source of joy, regarding it as… — Daisaku Ikeda Copy Share Image
“The psychology of places, for some imaginations at least, is very vivid; for the wanderer, especially, camps have their "note" either of… — Algernon Blackwood Copy Share Image
Dare yourself to believe in your creativity, wherever it may lead you. Trust that where it leads, is exactly where you're supposed… — Sarah Ban Breathnach Copy Share Image
“Allowing customers a creative role can then build both confidence and energy. It can help initiate the right innovation efforts and keep… — Nicholas Ind Copy Share Image
“Life is mapped out by a series of choices and coincidences … miracles and fate are figments of a dreamer’s imagination.” — Lisa De Jong Copy Share Image
“What a face this girl possessed!—Could I neither die then nor gaze at her face every day, I would need to recreate… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
I always believe it's better to have 30 imaginations working on a project, rather than one imagination telling the other 29 what to do. — Trevor Nunn Copy Share Image
Plastic metaphors and carbon copy similes that aren't going to do anything for anybody and it doesn't showcase creativity; it showcases the… — Immortal Technique Copy Share Image
I realized... that the artist is always alone. Early in life I had thought I needed other people to confirm or approve… — Beverly Pepper Copy Share Image
A great literary work can be completely, completely unpredictable. Which can sometimes make them very hard to read, but it gives them… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
Science-fiction ... can be defined as: Imaginative extrapolation of true natural phenomena, existing now, or likely to exist in the future. — Hugo Gernsback Copy Share Image
“As it says on the Tshirts:'I don't scare easily - I'm a librarian.', which was the polite version of the original:'Don't give… — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
But if you think you aren't creative that's cool, too. I think being around people who aren't creative is kind of refreshing… — Joel Hodgson Copy Share Image
Being a creative person, I'm naturally drawn towards art of any kind. But I'm more attracted to paintings because they radiate an… — Dimple Kapadia Copy Share Image
“What is perfection, anyway? It's the death of creativity, that's what I think, while change on the other hand, is the cornerstone… — Diane Keaton Copy Share Image
Nature is good for all of us. When we're exposed to trees and other natural settings - even within the city, it… — David Livermore Copy Share Image
There were a lot of fan-made trailers for 'The Originals.' The fans sort of decided it could be a show before anyone… — Joseph Morgan Copy Share Image
I have always regarded manual labour as creative and looked with respect-and, yes, wonder-at people who work with their hands. It seems… — Pablo Casals Copy Share Image
I think that's what a lot of writers do, create a totally fantastical scenario that is a reflection of something else going… — Matt Bellamy Copy Share Image
We have a vision of creating an imagination platform - the ultimate platform for play. A place for kids around the world… — David Baszucki Copy Share Image
If you've got creativity, imagination, and intelligence, and you want to be hypnotised, then there's no reason you shouldn't be able to. — Keith Barry Copy Share Image
The instant trivial as it is is all we have unless-unless things the imagination feeds upon, the scent of the rose, startle… — William Carlos Williams Copy Share Image
In its happiest efforts, translation is but approximation, and its efforts are not often happy. A translation may be good as translation,… — George Henry Lewes Copy Share Image
The misuse of extrinsic rewards, so common in business, impedes creativity, stifles personal satisfaction and turns play into work. — Daniel H. Pink Copy Share Image