Creativity Quote by Haruki Murakami Download Open image ““Originality is nothing but judicious imitation. So said Voltaire, the realist.”” — Haruki Murakami ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.6 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Creativity
Originality is nothing by judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed one from another. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Originality is nothing but judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed one from another. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
“The merit of originality is not novelty, it is sincerity. The believing man is the original man.” — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
“Originality is nothing but judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed one from another. The instruction we find in books is like fire. We… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“You are an original masterpiece; imitating someone else diminishes your value.” — Matshona Dhliwayo Copy Share Image
“We should be authentic: the ‘real deal’. Neither a clone nor mimic be.” — Fennel Hudson Copy Share Image
“Originality is nothing but judicious imitation. So said Voltaire, the realist.” “You agree with that?” “Everything has boundaries. The same holds true with thought.… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Originality is a myth perpetuated by the naive, the romantic, and the unscrupulous.” — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
“No man who cares about originality will ever be original. It's the man who's only thinking about doing a good job or telling the… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“The truth about people is that there are more fakes than originals.” — Saleem Sharma Copy Share Image
I always feel like I'm struggling to become someone else. Like I'm trying to find a new place, grab hold of a new life,… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
If writing novels is like planting a forest, then writing short stories is more like planting a garden. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“The sad truth is that what I could recall in five seconds all too soon needed ten, then thirty, thena full minute...” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Intelligent teenage girls were often instinctively theatrical, purposely eccentric, mouthing highly suggestive words to confuse people.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Memory is like fiction; or else it's fiction that's like memory. This really came home to me once I started writing fiction, that memory… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
The most dangerous creature here would have to be me. So maybe I'm just scared of my own shadow. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
If you listen to the radio for a whole hour there's maybe one decent song. The rest is mass-produced garbage — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“that one of our problems was our inability to recognize and accept our own deformities” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“When I look back at myself at age twenty, what I remember most is being alone and lonely. I had no girlfriend to warm… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“There's not a branch of publishing or broadcasting that doesn't depend in some way on advertising. It'd be like an aquarium without water. Why,… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“One by one, I'll face the tasks before me and complete them as best I can. Focusing on each stride forward, but at the… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Eleven o'clock had come and gone. I had to find a way to bring this conversation to a successful conclusion and get out of… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
The prophet who fails to present a bearable alternative and yet preaches doom is part of the trap that he postulates. Not only does… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
That's the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“The Soviet “creative intelligentsia” - that is, people accustomed to thinking one thing, saying another and doing a third - is as a whole… — Andrei Amalrik Copy Share Image
It’s so important to create in your own voice, to hold onto what makes you unique, and have faith in your vision. — John Lasseter Copy Share Image
A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
By making conscious choices in our behavior and where we focus our attention, we can transform our experience of our body, decrease our biological… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
“You are the end of beauty and creativity one must have created so far.” — M.F. Moonzajer Copy Share Image
Jonah Lehrer is one of the most talented explainers of science that we’ve got. What a pleasure it is to follow his investigation of… — Joshua Foer 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
