Originals Quotes - Page 14

• It has come to be practically a sort of rule in literature that a man, having once shown himself capable of original writing, is entitled thenceforth to steal from the writings of others at discretion.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Writing, Men, Literature

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.715, Library of America

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• The original insight is most likely to come when elements stored in different compartments of the mind drift into the open, jostle one another, and now and then form new combinations.

  Eric Hoffer

  Mind, Different, Elements

  Eric Hoffer (1963). “The Ordeal of Change”

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• Writing is a difficult trade which must be learned slowly by reading great authors; by trying at the outset to imitate them; by daring then to be original; by destroying one's first productions.

  Andre Maurois

  Book, Reading, Writing

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• One who is caught in thought loses one's original nature. All he knows are words and descriptions. When he sees the actual thing, he fails to perceive it.

  Dalai Lama

  Failing, Description, Caught

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• Our original title, you know, was `The Man in Lincoln`s Nose`. Couldn`t use it, though. They also wouldn`t let us shoot people on Mount Rushmore. Can`t deface a national monument. And it`s a pity, too, because I had a wonde.

  Alfred Hitchcock

  Men, People, Mount Rushmore

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• How vain painting is, exciting admiration by its resemblance to things of which we do not admire the originals.

  Blaise Pascal

  Admiration, Painting, Vain

  Pensees no. 74 (1658)

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• How vain is painting, which is admired for reproducing the likeness of things whose originals are not admired.

  Blaise Pascal

  Vanity, Painting, Vain

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• Only he who possesses a personal religion, an original view of infinity, can be an artist.

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

  Artist, Views, Individuality

  "Selected Ideas (1799-1800)". "Dialogue on Poetry and Literary Aphorisms", translated by Ernst Behler and Roman Struc, 1968.

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• Most beautiful is the sight of those near and dear to us when our original kinship makes us of one mind.

  Epicurus

  Love, Beautiful, Sight

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• If instead of a figure you put the shadow only of a person, you have found an original starting point, that strangeness of which you have calculated.

  Paul Gauguin

  Shadow, Starting, Figures

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• A whole generation of writers dined out on the dialectic between original cultures and their culture by "progress.

  Anatole Broyard

  Progress, Generations, Culture

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• Give your mind as long as possible to come up with something original.

  John Cleese

  Long, Giving, Mind

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• Finding temporary and specific causes for misfortune is the art of hope: Temporary causes limit helplessness in time, and specific causes limit helplessness to the original situation.

  Martin Seligman

  Hope, Art, Limits

  Martin E.P. Seligman (2011). “Learned Optimism: How to Change Your Mind and Your Life”, p.89, Vintage

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• The professionalism of technique and flash of dexterity are more comfortable to be around than raw creative power, hence our society generally rewards virtuoso performers more highly than it rewards original creators.

  Stephen Nachmanovitch

  Creative, Rewards, Our Society

  Stephen Nachmanovitch (1991). “Free Play: Improvisation in Life and Art”, p.120, Penguin

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• Gormenghast, that is, the main massing of the original stone, taken by itself would have displayed a certain ponderous architectural quality were it possible to have ignored the circumfusion of those mean dwellings that swarmed like an epidemic around it s Outer Walls.

  Mervyn Peake

  Wall, Taken, Mean

  Mervyn Peake (2007). “Titus Groan”, p.12, The Overlook Press

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• We've proven to be quite flexible and adept in the way that we've changed what was the original pattern of air activities into something that's now very focused on the battlefield.

  Wesley Clark

  Air, Patterns, Way

  "NATO: Aerial photo may show mass graves in Kosovo". www.cnn.com. April 11, 1999.

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• The judges of England have rarely been original thinkers or great jurists. Many have been craftsmen rather than creators.

  Patrick Devlin, Baron Devlin

  Judging, England, Craftsman

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• Mountain climbing was my original sport ... and I've never tired from the satisfaction of getting to the top of a mountain.

  Steve Fossett

  Sports, Tired, Climbing

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• Deadwood was a place created by a series of accidents. A kind of original sin.

  David Milch

  Kind, Sin, Accidents

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• My work is always a ready-made... cultural, political, or social, and also it could be art - to make people re-look at what we have done, its original position, to create new possibilities.

  Ai Weiwei

  Art, People, Political

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• The poem is a form of texting... it's the original text. It's a perfecting of a feeling in language - it's a way of saying more with less, just as texting is.

  Carol Ann Duffy

  Technology, Feelings, Texting

  "Carol Ann Duffy: 'Poems are a form of texting'". Interview with Joanna Moorhead, www.theguardian.com. September 5, 2011.

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• Copying is an art in itself, demanding the greatest technical ability, especially in watercolour. However well done, the copy invariably lacks that nascent, ineffable, but definite quality, provided by the furious enthusiasm with which an original is created, an essential spontaneity that defies reproduction.

  Walter J. Phillips

  Art, Quality, Copying

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• The risk is that you furnish the project with new suggestions to try and freshen it up; it's not always beneficial. You risk betraying the original intention with the story, forgetting what it is you really want to portray.

  Lars von Trier

  Betrayal, Risk, Trying

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• Greater consumption due to increase in population and growth of income heightens scarcity and induces price run-ups. A higher price represents an opportunity that leads inventors and businesspeople to seek new ways to satisfy the shortages. Some fail, at cost to themselves. A few succeed, and the final result is that we end up better off than if the original shortage problems had never arisen. That is, we need our problems, though this does not imply that we should purposely create additional problems for ourselves.

  Julian Simon

  Running, Opportunity, Growth

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