Creativity Quote by Adam M. Grant

To achieve originality we need to abandon the comforts of habit, reason, and the approval of our peers, and strike out in new directions.

— Marty Neumeier

“We achieve originality of style not by avoiding the influences of others but by blending them into a combination that has not been heard…

— Scott Norton

“I want to debunk the myth that originality requires extreme risk taking and persuade you that originals are actually far more ordinary than we…

— Adam M. Grant

“In light of this evidence, Bryan suggests that we should embrace nouns more thoughtfully. “Don’t Drink and Drive” could be rephrased as: “Don’t Be…

— Adam M. Grant

Nothing is original.. Steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration or fuels your imagination. Devour old films, new films, music, books, paintings, photographs, poems,…

— Jim Jarmusch

We loved the Beach Boys, bands like that, but our originality came out of our lack of ability as copiers. They did mostly complicated,…

— Russell Mael

“Disappointment leads to clarity, which leads to conviction and true originality.”

— Conan O'Brien

Solitude produces originality, bold and astonishing beauty, poetry. But solitude also produces perverseness, the disproportianate, the absurd and the forbidden.

— Thomas Mann

Wherein lies a poet's claim to originality? That he invents his incidents? No. That he was present when his episodes had their birth? No.…

— Mark Twain

To be original is to discover the commonplace of a thousand years--to face at first the sneer that no one would have thought of…

— Gerald Stanley Lee

I pretend no originality in observing that mass education was motivated in part by the perceived need to "educate them to keep them from…

— Noam Chomsky

Original minds are not distinguished by being the first to see a new thing, but instead by seeing the old, familiar thing that is…

— Friedrich Nietzsche