Creativity Quote by Tom Robbins Download Open image ““Originality is a myth perpetuated by the naive, the romantic, and the unscrupulous.”” — Tom Robbins ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.8 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Creativity Storytelling
“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 Copy Share Image
“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 merit of originality is not novelty, it is sincerity. The believing man is the original man.” — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Originality is a thing we constantly clamour for, and constantly quarrel with; as if, observes our author himself, any originality but our own could… — 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
“Many people fail to achieve originality because they generate a few ideas and then obsess about refining them to perfection.” — Adam M. Grant Copy Share Image
Originality is a thing we constantly clamour for, and constantly quarrel with. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Originality is something that is easily exaggerated, especially by authors contemplating their own work. — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
“Originality is not writing the story that has never been told, but writing the stories only you can tell.” — M. Kirin Copy Share Image
“Originality has nothing to do with producing something ’ new’ - it is about seeking the source, the primordial ground from which you draw… — Billy Marshall Stoneking 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
“To be original is not creating your own idea; it's the essence of the idea in the reader's mind.” — Kaela Marooney Copy Share Image
There are times when we can feel destiny close around us like a fist around a doorknob. Sure, we can resist. But a knob… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
Love is the ultimate outlaw. It just won't adhere to any rules. The most any of us can do is to sign on as… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
The party in Alobar’s head, which agitation and anxiety were throwing, now was crashed by a notion: existence can be rearranged. — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
The world is a wonderfully weird place, consensual reality is significantly flawed, no institution can be trusted, certainty is a mirage, security a delusion,… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
Anyone who maintains absolute standards of good and evil is dangerous. As dangerous as a maniac with a loaded revolver. — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
“I believe in everything; nothing is sacred. I believe in nothing; everything is sacred. Ha Ha Ho Ho Hee Hee.” — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
“Love is the ultimate outlaw. It just won't adhere to any rules. The most any of us can do is to sign on as… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
“The glue that holds the natural world together appears to be a harmonious balance of opposites: day and night, light and dark, winter and… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
Zippers are primal and modern at the very same time. On the one hand, your zipper is primitive and reptilian, on the other, mechanical… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
“religion is a paramount contributor to human misery. It is not merely the opium of the masses, it is the cyanide.” — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
She continued weeping until the heat of her tear water, the sheer velocity of its flow, finally obscured the already vague circumstances of its… — Tom Robbins 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
