The proponents of Steinitz' theory - Tarrasch and his supporters - tried to express Steinitz' teaching in the form of laconic rules,… — Alexander Kotov Copy Share Image
“It’s clear that you want to seem original. But is it possible that you—?” “It is clear,” interrupted I-330, “that to be… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
People are always talking about originality; but what do they mean? As soon as we are born, the world begins to work… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The heartbeat of your originality is deep within a body of thought that continually wrestles with the contradictions and limitations that we're… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
Originality is definitely missing from EDM. There are people looking for it and exploring but I feel it's so big now it… — Avicii Copy Share Image
The complaint, therefore, that all topicks are preoccupied, is nothing more than the murmur of ignorance or idleness, by which some discourage… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I advise everyone to find an island in this life. Find a place where this culture can't take energy away from you,… — RZA Copy Share Image
Without criticism of Islam, Islam will remain unassailed in its dogmatic, fanatical, medieval fortress; ossified, totalitarian and intolerant. It will continue to… — Wafa Sultan Copy Share Image
When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other. Originality is deliberate and forced, and partakes of… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
Tell the image makers and magazine sellers and the plastic surgeons that you are not afraid. That what you fear the most… — Marion Woodman Copy Share Image
The Great don't innovate, they fertilize seeds planted by lackeys, they leave to others the inhaling of the flowers whose roots they've… — Ned Rorem Copy Share Image
Through reproductive technology, postmodernist art dispenses with the aura. The fiction of the creating subject gives way to a frank confiscation, quotation,… — Douglas Crimp Copy Share Image
“The mind is sharper and keener in seclusion and uninterrupted solitude. No big laboratory is needed in which to think. Originality thrives… — Tesla Copy Share Image
What is originality? To see something that has no name as yet and hence cannot be mentioned although it stares us all… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Writing that flirts with incoherence can just as readily flounder as writing characterized by simplicity and composure. There is no reliable formula… — Joanna Scott Copy Share Image
Well, the way I play, I try not to be a 'repeater pencil', ya dig? Originality's the thing. You can have tone… — Lester Young Copy Share Image
Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Each day he made attempts … but produced nothing but quotations, thinly or well disguised, of his own work. Nothing sprang free… — Ian McEwan Copy Share Image
I am very willing to admit that I have some poetical abilities, and as few - if any - writers, either moral… — Robert Burns Copy Share Image
“but it can’t tell you where you ought to go, unless where you ought to go is a continuation of where you… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
If I could be really competent, that goes such a long way toward things, because the majority of things are not competent.… — Jon Stewart Copy Share Image
I used to make original snowmen, but it was time consuming, hard work. So I said, heck, this is crazy! Now I… — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
“Plus, if you’re a copycat, you can never keep up. You’re always in a passive position. You never lead; you always follow.… — Jason Fried Copy Share Image
“I am never forget the day I first meet the great Lobachevsky. In one word he told me secret of success in… — Tom Lehrer Copy Share Image
Perfection is the satin-lined casket of creativity and originality. If you are a perfectionist, at least stop telling everybody you're one and… — Augusten Burroughs Copy Share Image
There are the those whose own vulgar normality is so apparent and stultifying that they strive to escape it. They affect flamboyant… — Katherine Dunn Copy Share Image
Your true home is in the here and the now... You must not let your life run in the ordinary way; do… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Why should Cornishmen learn Cornish? There is no money in it, it serves no practical purpose, and the literature is scanty and… — Henry Jenner Copy Share Image
What a newspaper needs in its news, in its headlines, and on its editorial page is terseness, humor, descriptive power, satire, originality,… — Joseph Pulitzer Copy Share Image
All preceptors should have that kind of genius described by Tacitus, "equal to their business, but not above it;" a patient industry,… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
The decent moderation of today will be the least of human things tomorrow. At the time of the Spanish Inquisition, the opinion… — Maurice Maeterlinck Copy Share Image
Both the 18th and the early 20th centuries, however, feature brilliant attacks on originality, and it's no doubt one of the hallmarks… — Paul Fry Copy Share Image
It may be expecting too much to expect most intellectuals to have common sense, when their whole life is based on their… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
I believe that everyone is born original but the majority of us die otherwise because we deny ourselves. The only way of… — Markson Bero Copy Share Image
What is originality? To see something that is as yet without a name, that is as yet impossible to designate, even though… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
If you fall in love with an idea, you won't see the merits of alternative approaches-and will probably miss an opportunity or… — Roger von Oech Copy Share Image
No writer can be fully convicted of imitation except there is a concurrence of more resemblance than can be imagined to have… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
To write well, to have style ... is to paint. The master faculty of style is therefore the visual memory. If a… — Remy de Gourmont Copy Share Image
Today many American corporations spend a great deal of money and time trying to increase the originality of their employees, hoping thereby… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
“The Japanese had no idea what elements of Western culture and institutions where the crucial ones, so they ended up copying everything,… — Niall Ferguson Copy Share Image
