When a true genius
appears in the world, you will know him by this
sign, that all the dunces are in confederacy
against him.
— Jonathan Swift
The
radical invents the views. When he has worn them
out the conservative adopts them.
— Mark Twain
There is no
expedient to which a man will not go to avoid the
labor of thinking.
— Thomas Edison
Use your brain.
It's the little things that count.
— Graffiti
Formal education
will make you a living; self-education will make
you a fortune.
— Jim Rohn
Originality is the
one thing unoriginal minds cannot feel the use
of.
— John Stuart Mill
The
law of floatation was not discovered by
contemplating the sinking of things.
— Thomas Troward
In creating, the
only hard thing is to begin: a grass blade's no
easier to make than an oak.
— James Russell Lowell
All acts performed
in the world begin in the imagination.
— Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
We
know that the nature of genius is to provide idiots
with ideas
twenty years later.
— Louis Aragon
Creativity varies
inversely with the number of cooks involved in the
broth.
— Bernice Fitz-Gibbon
The great creative individual . . . is capable
of more wisdom and virtue than collective man ever
can be.
— John Stuart Mill
To be yourself in
a world that is doing its best, day and night to
make you like everybody else --- is to fight the
hardest battle any human being can fight; and never
stop fighting.
— e. e. cummings
If you believe it
can't be done, at least don't get in the way of the
person who is doing it.
— Unknown wise person
When starting out,
don't worry about not having enough money. Limited
funds are a blessing, not a curse. Nothing
encourages creative thinking in quite the same
way.
— H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Both the
revolutionary and the creative individual are
perpetual juveniles. The revolutionary does not
grow up because he cannot grow, while the creative
individual cannot grow up because he keeps
growing."
— Eric Hoffer
True creativity
often starts where language ends.
— Arthur Koestler
Whatever
creativity is, it is in part a solution to a
problem.
— Brian Aldiss
I don't give a
damn for any man who can spell a word only one
way.
— Mark Twain
If your house is on fire, warm yourself by
it.
— Spanish proverb
All good things which exist are the fruits of
originality.
— John Stuart Mill
In the republic of mediocrity, genius is
dangerous.
— Robert Ingersoll
True creativity often starts where language
ends.
— Arthur Koestler
Whatever creativity is, it is in part a solution
to a problem.
— Brian Aldiss
Originality is the one thing unoriginal minds
cannot feel the use of.
— John Stuart Mill
In creating, the only hard thing is to begin: a
grass blade's no easier
to make than an oak.
— James Russell Lowell
If confusion is the
first step to knowledge, I must be a genius.
— Larry Leissner
Happiness lies in the
joy of achievement and the thrill of creative
effort.
— Franklin Roosevelt
Every child is an
artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once
he grows up.
— Pablo Picasso
A man without imagination is like a bird without
wings.
— Wilhelm Raabe
If it works, it's obsolete.
— Marshall McLuhan
A man would do well to carry a pencil in his
pocket, and write down the thoughts of the moment.
Those that come unsought for are commonly the most
valuable, and should be secured, because they
seldom return.
— Francis Bacon
When you find yourself on the side of
majority, question yourself about what you are
doing and why. It is likely
wrong.
— from
Look Ma; Life's
Easy
The vitality of
thought is in adventure. Ideas won't keep.
Something must be done about them.
— Alfred North Whitehead
I merely took the energy it takes to pout
and wrote some blues.
— Duke Ellington
I always read the
last page of a book first so that if I die
before I finish, I'll know how it turned
out.
— Nora Ephron
Everything has been
thought of before, but the problem is to think
of it again.
— Johann W. von Goethe
Very few
people do anything creative after the age of
thirty-five. The reason is that very few people
do anything creative before the age of
thirty-five.
— Joel Hildebrand
The important thing
in science is not so much to obtain new facts
as to discover new ways of thinking about
them.
— Sir William Bragg
The jean! The jean
is the destructor. It is a dictator! It is
destroying creativity! The jean must be
stopped!
— Pierre Cardin
A man's mind,
stretched by new ideas, may never return to its
original
dimensions.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
There are nine
ways of poaching eggs, and each of them is
worse than the other.
— Robert Lynd
You can't depend on
your eyes when your imagination is out of
focus.
— Mark Twain
In creating, the
only hard thing is to begin: a grass blade's no
easier to make than an oak.
— James Russell Lowell
