| "Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it." »Clive Staples Lewis |
| "Your manuscript is both good and original, but the part that is good is not original and the part that is original is not good." »Samuel Johnson |
| "You've got to be original, because if you're like someone else, what do they need you for" »Bernadette Peters |
| "The more original a discovery, the more obvious it seems afterwards." »Arthur Koestler |
| "Never solve a problem from its original perspective." »Charles Thompson |
| "I always have a quotation for everything-- it saves original thinking." »Dorothy L. Sayers |
| "The most original authors are not so because they advance what is new, but because they put what they have to say as if it had never been said before." »Johann von Goethe |
| "A thought is often original, though you have uttered it a hundred times." »Oliver Wendell Holmes |
| "A facility for quotation covers the absence of original thought." »Dorothy L. Sayers |
| "We read frequently if unknowingly, in quest of a mind more original than our own." »Harold Bloom |
| "When there is an original sound in the world, it makes a hundred echoes." »John Shedd |
| "originality is nothing by judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed one from another." »Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire |
| "A sense of curiosity is nature's original school of education." »Smiley Blanton |
| "A person's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions." »Oliver Wendell Holmes |
| "Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions." »Sri da Avabhas |
| "Don't worry about people stealing an idea. If it's original, you will have to ram it down their throats." »Howard Aiken |
| "It is nothing new or original to say that golf is played one stroke at a time. But it took me many years to realize it." »Bobby Jones |
| "One's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions." »Oliver Wendell Holmes |
| "Have you ever observed that we pay much more attention to a wise passage when it is quoted than when we read it in the original author" »Philip G. Hamerton |
| "The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found." »Calvin Trillin |
| "Excellence is a better teacher than mediocrity. The lessons of the ordinary are everywhere. Truly profound and original insights are to be found only in studying the exemplary." »Warren Bennis |
| "original Poems for Infant Minds My MotherWho ran to help me when I fell,And would some pretty story tell,Or kiss the place to make it wellMy Mother." »Anonymous |
| "In the modern world of business, it is useless to be a creative original thinker unless you can also sell what you create. Management cannot be expected to recognize a good idea unless it is presented to them by a good salesman." »David M. Ogilvy |
| "Happiness is a sunbeam, Which may pass through a thousand bosoms Without losing a particle of its original ray Nay, when it strikes on a kindred heart, Like the converged light on a mirror, It reflects itself with redoubled brightness. It is not perfected till it is shared." »Jane Porter |
| "Emc (Energy equals mass times the square of the speed of light.) original statement If a body gives off the energy L in the form of radiation, its mass diminshes by Lc." »Albert Einstein |
| "Just because the solutions of problems are not visible at any particular time does not mean that those problems will never be alleviated -- or confined to tolerable dimensions. History has a way of changing the very terms in which problems operate and of leaving them, in the end, unsolved, to be sure, yet strangely deflated of their original meaning and importance." »M. I. Abramowitz |
| "“Truth is simple. It's just the truth. But think about when someone lies. Think about all the lies they need to tell in order to keep the original lie going. It's a tangled web, and it makes getting at the truth very difficult - which is exactly what the liar wants."" »John Rocco Savalli |
| "Every human being on this earth is born with a tragedy, and it isn't original sin. He's born with the tragedy that he has to grow up. That he has to leave the nest, the security, and go out to do battle. He has to lose everything that is lovely and fight for a new loveliness of his own making, and it's a tragedy. A lot of people don't have the courage to do it." »Helen Hayes |
| "Our American past always speaks to us with two voices the voice of the past, and the voice of the present. We are always asking two quite different questions. Historians reading the words of John Winthrop usually ask, What did they mean to him Citizens ask, What do they mean to us Historians are trained to seek the original meaning all of us want to know the present meaning." »Daniel J. Boorstin |
| "There is a difference between a book of two hundred pages from the very beginning, and a book of two hundred pages which is the result of an original eight hundred pages. The six hundred are there. Only you don't see them." »Elie Wiesel |
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