Originals Quotes · Page 34

Stigler's Law: No scientific discovery is named after its original discoverer.

— George Stigler

It's important to respect and exhaustively study the masters of music, but as you grow and develop it's important to use their…

— Carl Orr

His [Marx's] most explosive and indeed most original contribution to the cause of revolution was that he interpreted the compelling needs of…

— Hannah Arendt

“Inspiration is everywhere so don't get trapped in reading and watching too much. Get out. Talk to people, friends, family, loved ones.…

— Arnold Arre

If you wanna compete, youve got to get into the original content game.

— Kevin Spacey

When reputable scientists correct flaws in an experiment that produced fantastic results, then fail to get those results when they repeat the…

— Martin Gardner

For the integrated human being there is no past: there is only the continual transformation of original experience.

— Vivian Gornick

I could identify for virtually every important figure in the history of modern continental philosophy an idea (or more than one) absolutely…

— Allen W. Wood

Every government is perpetually degenerating towards corruption, from which it must be rescued at certain periods by the resuscitation of its first…

— Samuel Johnson

My mom worked at [American] Vogue before I was born. She has always been fashion-minded. I grew up with original Yves Saint…

— Zachary Cole Smith

Affability, mildness, tenderness, and a word which I would fain bring back to its original signification of virtue,--I mean good-nature,--are of daily…

— John Dryden

For inspiration I look to those great players who consistently found original ways to shock their opponents. None did this better than…

— Garry Kasparov

The solving of almost every crime mystery depends on something which seems, at first glance, to bear no relation whatever to the…

— Elsa Barker

Unsolicited redesigns are terrific and fun and useful, and I hope designers never stop doing them. But as they do so, I…

— Khoi Vinh

The threat to man does not come in the first instance from the potentially lethal machines and apparatus of technology. The actual…

— Martin Heidegger

The hills and valleys of Heaven will be to those you now experience not as a copy is to an original, nor…

— C. S. Lewis

A lot of our favorite comedies in general are usually directed by writers, whether or not they wrote the original script themselves.

— Jon Hurwitz

We sometimes meet an original gentleman, who, if manners had not existed, would have invented them.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I'm a huge fan of director's cuts or reassemblies if they're good, but I remember being really excited about the restored version…

— William Monahan

[Liv Corfixen] very much part of my life in that she's everything in my life and we found a way to use…

— Nicolas Winding Refn

I find that with fantasy, you lose yourself in it a lot. It's great to be able to go into a dark…

— Austin Butler

If a painting of a tree was only the exact representation of the original, so that it looked just like the tree,…

— Calvin Coolidge

I speculate that the genesis of the chicken-joke lies in some situation such as the one illustrated above, but over time the…

— Ryan North

My original intention was to spend the money in my lifetime.

— George Soros

Because of the confusion surrounding the term "agnosticism," it would seem better to use the very similar term "rationalism" in its place…

— Gordon Stein