Friday, June 19, 2009

Quotes: Originality

Originality 230 "A thought is often original, though you have uttered it a hundred times." Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. 1858. Gross, ed. Oxford Book of Aphorisms. Repetition hides creativity?


Originality 234 "Many have original minds who do not think it—they are led away by custom." Keats. 1818. Gross, ed. Oxford Book of Aphorisms. Thinking the way others think kills creativity.


Originality 299 "You may know a new utterance by the element of danger in it." D. H. Lawrence. 1923. Gross, ed. Oxford Book of Aphorisms. The power of the "sound bite"?

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