Creativity Quote by Viet Thanh Nguyen Download Open image ““I was the kind bothered less by sinning than by unoriginality.”” — Viet Thanh Nguyen ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.0 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Creativity
“His sinner, huh? His very own personal sinner. Somehow the concept was very, very appealing.” — Jae T. Jaggart Copy Share Image
“If I never experience the ugliness of sin I would have no way of knowing how radical his grace is and the depth to… — Kimm Crandell Copy Share Image
“The plain and simple fact was everyone sinned. Either they were good at hiding their sins, or they weren't. I fell in the latter… — Tiffany King Copy Share Image
“He knew I was unworthy. He knew I was the worst of sinners. And yet I dared to come before Him.” — Grace A. Johnson Copy Share Image
“She understood the nature of sin and knew that its most volatile form was the kind that did not recognize itself.” — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
“And here is a prejudice of mine, confirmed by my lights through many years of observation. Sinners are not all dishonorable people, not by… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
“He used to say that sinning was not about the bad things you’d done and regretted but about the failure to do what you… — Marguerite Poland Copy Share Image
“I am not so much concerned about the sinful things I see in others as I am about the sinful things I see in… — Jerry Kinard Copy Share Image
“...he was so horribly unhuman, that one shuddered to think that tender women and fair children must, of necessity, confess to fellowship of kind… — Marcus Clarke Copy Share Image
“After the first blush of sin comes its indifference; and from immoral it becomes, as it were, unmoral, and not quite unnecessary to that… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“He had a Minnesotan’s admiration for resourcefulness in the face of hardship, bred by generations of people one very bad winter away from starvation… — Viet Thanh Nguyen Copy Share Image
“When was the last time an American president found it worth his while to write a speech on the importance of art and literature?… — Viet Thanh Nguyen Copy Share Image
“We don't succeed or fail because of fortune or luck. We succeed because we understand the way the world works and what we have… — Viet Thanh Nguyen Copy Share Image
“Innocence and guilt. These are cosmic issues. We’re all innocent on one level and guilty on another. Isn’t that what Original Sin is all… — Viet Thanh Nguyen Copy Share Image
“After all, nothing was more American than wielding a gun and committing oneself to die for freedom and independence, unless it was wielding that… — Viet Thanh Nguyen Copy Share Image
“She wondered what, if anything, she knew about love. Not much, perhaps, but enough to know that what she would do for him now… — Viet Thanh Nguyen Copy Share Image
“One could choose between innocence and experience, but one could not have both.” — Viet Thanh Nguyen Copy Share Image
“then, to present myself as just another immigrant, glad to be in the land where the pursuit of happiness was guaranteed in writing, which,… — Viet Thanh Nguyen Copy Share Image
“He was more embarrassed and discreet about sex than about things I thought more difficult, like killing people, which pretty much defined the history… — Viet Thanh Nguyen Copy Share Image
“While it is better to be loved than hated, it is also far better to be hated than ignored” — Viet Thanh Nguyen Copy Share Image
“Every full bottle of alcohol has a message in it, a surprise that one will not discover until one drinks it.” — Viet Thanh Nguyen 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
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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
