Intellect...Creativity...ORIGINALITY
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0716
“Place one idea upon paper, another will follow it, and still another, until you have written a page. You cannot fathom your mind. It is a well of thought which has no bottom. The more you draw from it, the more clear and fruitful will it be. If you neglect to think yourself, and use other people’s thoughts, giving them utterance only, you will never know what you are capable of.” — George Augustus Sala
ORIGINALITY, Procrastination, Wisdom, Arts
0717
“It hinders the creative work of the mind if the intellect examines too closely the ideas as they pour in.” — J.C.F. Schiller
ORIGINALITY, Decision Making, Judgment
0718
“The very essence of the creative is its novelty, and hence we have no standard by which to judge it.” — Carl Ransom Rogers
ORIGINALITY, Judgment
0719 P
“When Alexander the Great visited Diogenes and asked whether he could do anything for the
famed teacher, Diogenes replied: ‘Only stand out of my light.’ Perhaps some day we shall know how to heighten creativity. Until then, one of the best things we can do for creative men and women is to stand out of their light.” — John William Gardner
ORIGINALITY, Knowledge
0720
“There is the happiness which comes from creative effort. The joy of dreaming, creating, building, whether in painting a picture, writing an epic, singing a song, composing a symphony, devising a new invention, creating a vast industry. Work is the great redeemer. It has therapeutic value. It brings happiness.” — Henry Miller
ORIGINALITY, Happiness
0721
“The whole difference between construction and creation is exactly this: that a thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed, but a thing created is loved before it exists.” — G(ilbert) K(eith) Chesterton
ORIGINALITY, Love
0722 A
“We must treat ideas somewhat as if they were baby fish. Throw thousands out into the water. Only a handful will survive, but that is plenty.” — Anne Heywood
ORIGINALITY, Innovation, Decision Making
0723
“An idea is a feat of association.” — Robert Frost
ORIGINALITY, Thought, Wisdom
0724
“An inventive idea without development is quite useless.” — Peter Carl Goldmark
ORIGINALITY, Procrastination, Potential
0725
“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 Mackenzie Ogilvy
ORIGINALITY, Competition
0726 A
“Great ideas need landing gear as well as wings.” — C. D. Jackson
ORIGINALITY, Prudence
0727
“Serious minded people have few ideas. People with ideas are never serious.”
— Paul Valery
ORIGINALITY, Happiness, Sadness
0728
“He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.” — Joseph Joubert
ORIGINALITY, Knowledge
0729
“Imagination is more important than knowledge.” — Albert Einstein
ORIGINALITY, Knowledge
0730
“Imagination is the eye of the soul.” — Joseph Joubert
ORIGINALITY, Genius
0731
“I like to have a thing suggested rather than told in full, when every detail is given, the mind rests satisfied and the imagination loses the desire to use its own wings.” — Thomas Bailey Aldrich
ORIGINALITY, Leadership
0732
“Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.” — Albert Einstein
ORIGINALITY, Adversity, Genius
0733
“The nobler the truth or sentiment, the less imports the question of authorship.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
ORIGINALITY, Arts
ORIGINALITY Cross-References
Excellence—65 • Courage—192 •
Fear—334 • Ignorance—506 • Knowledge—538, 548 •
Perception—614 • Thought—629, 635-636, 641 • Vision—643 •
Decision-Making—688, 690, 696 • Genius—707, 709, 714 •
Innovation—734-735, 740-741, 745, 747 • Anger—841 •
Hate—860 • God—986 • Business—1054-1055, 1060 •
Arts—1066 • Sciences—1084, 1100-1101, 1105 • Authority—1125 •
Individualism—1343, 1347 • Communication—1385
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