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Letter "O" » originality
«ORIGINALITY is unexplored territory. You get there by carrying a canoe -- you can't take a taxi.»
Author: Alan Alda
| Keywords:
canoe, canoes, carrying, originality, taxi, taxis, territories, territory, unexplored
«Originality is the one thing which unoriginal minds cannot feel the use of.»
Author: John Stuart Mill
(Economist, Logician, Philosopher)
| About:
Originality
| Keywords:
originality, unoriginal
«The bad teacher imposes his ideas and his methods on his pupils, and such originality as they may have is lost in the second-rate art of imitation.»
Author: Stephen Neill
| About:
Teachers and teaching
| Keywords:
Bad art, imitation, imposes, methods, originality, pupils, rate, second rate
«Some writers confuse authenticity, which they ought always to aim at, with originality, which they should never bother about.»
Author: W. H. Auden
(Dramatist, Editor, Poet)
| About:
Writers
| Keywords:
authenticity, bother, confuse, originality
«Originality is undetected plagiarism.»
«Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it.»
Author: Dr. Laurence J. Peter
(Educator, Writer)
| About:
Originality
| Keywords:
fine art, fine arts, forgetting, originality, remembering
«The aim of public education is not to spread enlightenment at all; it is simply to reduce as many individuals as possible to the same safe level, to breed a standard citizenry, to put down dissent and originality»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| About:
Education
| Keywords:
aim, as many, breed, citizenry, dissent, dissenting, dissents, enlightenment, individuals, level, originality, public, public education, put down, reduce, safe, spread, standard, the Enlightenment
«Originality is the art of concealing your sources»
Author: Benjamin Franklin
(Inventor, Philosopher, Printer, Scientist, Statesman, Writer)
| About:
Originality
| Keywords:
Art of, concealing, originality, sources, the art
«Perhaps our originality manifests itself most strikingly in what we do with that which we did not originate. To discover something wholly new can be a matter of chance, of idle tinkering, or even of the chronic dissatisfaction of the untalented.»
Author: Eric Hoffer
(Writer)
| Keywords:
chronic, dissatisfaction, idle, manifests, originality, originate, originate in, The Chronic, tinker, tinkering, tinkers, wholly, with that
«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
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