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Letter "O" » Originality
«What moves those of genius, what inspires their work is not new ideas, but their obsession with the idea that what has already been said is still not enough.»
«Since there are only a few original people in the world, there is more uniformity than one might expect, in view of the large number who think they have something to say»
«Utter originality is, of course, out of the question»
Author: Ezra Pound
(Critic, Editor, Poet, Translator)
| About:
Originality
| Keywords:
originality, out of the question, utter
«Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.»
Author: Franz Kafka
(Writer)
| About:
Individuality,
Judgement,
Originality,
Right
| Keywords:
acceptable
«The secret of all effective originality in advertising is not the creation of new and tricky words and pictures, but one of putting familiar words and pictures into new relationships.»
Author: Leo Burnett
(Executive)
| About:
Advertising,
Originality
| Keywords:
familiar, originality, pictures, The Creation, tricky
«The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.»
Author: Aldous Huxley
(Critic, Novelist)
| About:
Originality
| Keywords:
incline, inclines, inclining, original, originals, solitude
«The greater intellect one has, the more originality one finds in men. Ordinary persons find no difference between men.»
Author: Blaise Pascal
(Mathematician, Philosopher, Physicist)
| About:
Originality
| Keywords:
originality
«Should we all confess our sins to one another we would all laugh at one another for our lack of originality»
Author: Kahlil Gibran
(Essayist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Originality,
Sin
| Keywords:
confess, confessing, lack, laugh, laugh at, originality, sins
«The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity.»
Author: Thomas Carlyle
(Essayist, Historian)
| About:
Originality
| Keywords:
merit, novelties, novelty, originality, sincerity
«The world in general doesn't know what to make of originality; it is startled out of its comfortable habits of thought, and its first reaction is one of anger.»
Author: William Somerset Maugham
(Novelist, Playwright, Writer)
| About:
Originality,
World
| Keywords:
in general, originality, reaction, startle, startled
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