Original Thought Quotes - Page 2

• Your brain, Peekay, has two functions; it is a place for original thought, but also it is a reference library. Use it to tell you where to look, and then you will have for yourself all the brains that have ever been

  Bryce Courtenay

  Two, Brain, Library

  Bryce Courtenay (1989). “The Power of One”, Random House LLC

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• Hollywood's thinking is very typical. And it's just really predictable too. And I think at Hollywood, these box office movies are flopping. I mean, there hasn't been an original thought coming out of Hollywood since the '80s.

  Andrea Tantaros

  Mean, Thinking, Office

  Source: deadline.com

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• Original thought, original artistic expression is by its very nature questioning, irreverent, iconoclastic.

  Salman Rushdie

  Expression, Artistic, Questioning

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• Thought is the original source of all wealth, all success, all material gain, all great discoveries and inventions, and of all achievement.

  Claude M. Bristol

  Motivational, Thinking, Discovery

  Claude M. Bristol (1948). “Magic of Believing”, p.21, Lulu.com

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• Hardly any original thoughts on mental or social subjects ever make their way among mankind or assume their proper importance in the minds even of their inventors, until aptly selected words or phrases have as it were nailed them down and held them fast.

  John Stuart Mill

  Mind, Phrases, Down And

  John Stuart Mill (1858). “A System of Logic, Ratiocinative and Inductive: Being a Connected View of the Principles of Evidence and the Methods of Scientific Investigation”, p.426

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• An original thought would crack your feeble skull like a thunderbolt, you craven vulture.

  Christopher Moore

  Skulls, Cracks, Thunderbolts

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• Over the years, whenever I've felt that little twinkle in the hairs on the back of my neck., as I encountered an original thought or observation in a fishing book, I've turned the corner of the page down.

  Arnold Gingrich

  Book, Lakes, Hair

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• There is a distinction between what may be called a problem and what may be considered an exercise. The latter serves to drill a student in some technique or procedure, and requires little if any, original thought... No exercise, then, can always be done with reasonbable dispatch and with a miniumum of creative thinking. In contrast to an exercise, a problem, if it is a good one for its level, should require though on the part of the student.

  Howard Whitley Eves

  Teaching, Math, Exercise

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• Genius differs from talent not by the amount of original thoughts, but by making the latter fertile and by positioning them properly, in other words, by integrating everything into a whole, whereas talent produces only fragments, no matter how beautiful.

  Franz Grillparzer

  Beautiful, Integrity, Matter

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• Before I even put pen to paper, in any sense, I'm like, "What's the coolest MacGuffin you can come up with? What are the last frames of this series?" The secret that's behind this entire thing is to be as evocative, original, thought-provoking and timely.

  Paul Scheuring

  Thought Provoking, Secret, Paper

  Source: collider.com

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• Once he could read and write he would have a mind fit to rule. So ran the democratic doctrine. But instead of a mind, universal literacy has given him rubber stamps, rubber stamps inked with advertising slogans, with editorials, with published scientific data, with the trivialities of the tabloids and the platitudes of history, but quite innocent of original thought.

  Edward Bernays

  Writing, Data, Mind

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• My mental faculties remained in suspended animation while I obeyed the orders of the higher-ups. This is typical with everyone in the military service.

  Smedley Butler

  Peace, Military, War

  "War Is A Racket". Smedley Butler's speech in the U.S. (1933); later published as a book "War Is a Racket", www.businessinsider.com. 1935.

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• Sometimes I lie awake at night, and wonder if my life would be different if I had to do it over... Then a voice comes to me out of the dark that says, "boy, there's an original thought!

  Charles M. Schulz

  Lying, Dark, Boys

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• War Is A Racket : I suspected I was just part of a racket at the time. Now I am sure of it. Like all members of the military profession I never had an original thought until I left the service. My mental faculties remained in suspended animation while I obeyed the orders of the higher- ups. This is typical with everyone in the military service

  Smedley Butler

  Military, War, Order

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• There's one difference between me and them: I know I'm not qualified. In my opinion, Arnold Schwarzenegger wasn't qualified to be governor of California. Ronald Reagan wasn't qualified to be governor, let alone president. I was a vice president of the Screen Actors Guild when he was its president. My duties consisted of attending meetings and voting. The only thing I remember is that Ronnie never had an original thought and that we had to tell him what to say. That's no way to run a union, let along a state or a country.

  James Garner

  Running, Country, California

  James Garner, Jon Winokur, Julie Andrews (2012). “The Garner Files: A Memoir”, p.98, Simon and Schuster

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• I have thought about Happy Days made into a movie. As far as the original cast not being a part of it, wow, I don't know who could be who!I just don't see it going in that direction. I can see the original cast doing the movie very easily though.

  Erin Moran

  Wow, Happy Day, Made

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• They have never affirm'd any thing, concerning the cause, till the trial was past: whereas, to do it before, is a most venomous thing in the making of Sciences: for whoever has fix'd on his Cause, before he has experimented; can hardly avoid fitting his Experiment, and his Observations, to his Own Cause, which he had before imagin'd; rather than the Cause to the Truth of the Experiment itself. Referring to experiments of the Aristotelian mode, whereby a preconceived truth would be illustrated merely to convince people of the validity of the original thought.

  Thomas Sprat

  Truth, Science, Past

  "The History of the Royal Society of London, for the Improving of Natural Knowledge".

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• The majority of business men are not capable of an original thought, simply because they cannot escape the tyranny of reason.

  David Ogilvy

  Men, Majority, Originality

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• My guess is that well over eighty per cent. of the human race goes through life without having a single original thought.

  H. L. Mencken

  Science, Race, Ideas

  H.L. Mencken (2013). “Minority Report”, p.20, Knopf

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• The average man never really thinks from end to end of his life. The mental activity of such people is only a mouthing of clichés.

  H. L. Mencken

  Men, Thinking, Average

  H.L. Mencken (2013). “Minority Report”, p.20, Knopf

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• Objectively good spaces to work rarely end up being so; in their faultlessness, quiet and well-equipped studios have a habit of rendering the fear of failure overwhelming. Original thoughts are like shy animals. We sometimes have to look the other way - towards a busy street or terminal - before they run out of their burrows.

  Alain de Botton

  Running, Animal, Space

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• To put away one's own original thoughts in order to take up a book is a sin against the Holy Ghost.

  Barbara Tuchman

  Book, Order, Ghost

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• I ain't got an original thought in my head. If it ain't got the scent of divinity to it, I ain't interested in it

  Cormac McCarthy

  Scent, Divinity, Originals

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• I love hanging out with my friends and family. I really, really, really love articulating original thought. That's probably my core, my biggest buzz. Because then it makes me feel like I know why I was born. Reaching original thought, where I know that I'm perceiving something that only I have seen, and I need to incarnate that. That's it right there.

  Caroline Myss

  Family And Friends, Needs, Buzz

  "A Conversation with Caroline Myss". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Some people rely on rumors and gossip because they are devoid of any original thought.

  Bob Saget

  Gossip, People, Rumor

  Twitter post from Nov 02, 2012

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