Original Quotes - page 9

The conventional mind is passive - it consumes information and regurgitates it in familiar forms. The dimensional mind is active, transforming everything it digests into something new and original, creating instead of consuming. (Robert Greene)
Happiness is your original nature, it is YOU, minus your neurosis. View quote
Robert Holden
All too often, when creative people pick out someone else's creative work as an inspiration, what they end up with is very, very far from the original. View quote
Samuel R. Delany
I always say that the characters in Jane Austen's original books are rather like zombies because they live in this bubble of immense wealth and privilege and no matter what's going on around them they have a singular purpose to maintain their rank and to impress others. View quote
Seth Grahame-Smith
In keeping with original Mormon teachings, much of the property in Hildale and Colorado City is held in trust for the church. Striving to be as self-sufficient as possible, the community grows a wide variety of fruits and vegetables, and everyone, including children, is expected to help bring in the yield. View quote
Scott Anderson
What I'm saying is individuals have better ideas if they're connected to rich, diverse networks of other individuals. If you put yourself in an environment with lots of different perspectives, you yourself are going to have better, sharper, more original ideas. It's not that the network is smart. View quote
Steven Johnson
The odd thing in this world is that an eager-beaver type, with no original ideas, who mimes those in authority above him right to the last twist of necktie and scrape of chin, always gets noticed. Gets selected. Rises. View quote
Philip K. Dick
What I haven't apologised for is the original concept of seeking to bring justice to all South Africans through the concept of nation states. View quote
F. W. de Klerk
We never set up Yandex to imitate what others were doing. We've been in the business longer than other search engines and have created many original products. View quote
Arkady Volozh
Ever wonder why the gods created man, Grom? I personally think that we're the original reality show. They were so effing bored that they created us just so that they could feel better about themselves. View quote
Sherrilyn Kenyon
If you, like, consciously think about being cool, you're not cool. If you consciously think about being, like, different or original, you ain't different or original. (Junot Diaz)
I like learning stuff. The more information you can get about a person or a subject, the more you can pour into a potential project. I made a decision to do different things. I want to do things that have a better chance of being thought of as original. I do everything I can to disrupt my comfort zone. View quote
Brian Grazer
I recently watched Peter Brook's Lord of the Flies, and it wasn't a favorite film. Then I saw the one that was made in 1990, which in my opinion didn't match up to the original. View quote
Brendan Fraser
According to Buddhism, each person is a Buddha who has forgotten their original nature. If we in the pampered West, having grown up with so many advantages, could not claim our own health and our agency, preferring to see ourselves as helpless victims, then who would do it? Who would take responsibility for the world? View quote
Daniel Pinchbeck
This is the thing they don't tell you about being a third wheel - it's not like you're the wheel that's added on. You were one of the original two wheels, but suddenly you're not so important anymore. The relationship drives fine without you. View quote
David Levithan
It is a truth universally acknowledged on Wall Street that original research is on life support. Serious research can be bad for business, as well as expensive. View quote
Alex Berenson
I've written original material before, where I've come up with the idea and the characters myself, and that's definitely very different to working with someone else's characters and stories. View quote
Alex Garland
Stigler's Law: No scientific discovery is named after its original discoverer. View quote
George Stigler
Seeds and nuts are indispensable for cardiovascular health. The protective properties of nuts against coronary heart disease were first recognized in the early 1990s, and a strong body of literature has followed, confirming these original findings. View quote
Joel Fuhrman
There was something disruptive about Christmas and not only in the merely material way. The original Christmas had proved exceedingly disrupting to the entire world and the tremors of the original event vibrated through every life year by year. View quote
Elizabeth Goudge
A shudder runs through the viewer of old photographs. For they make visible not the knowledge of the original but the spatial configuration of a moment; what appears in the photograph is not the person but the sum of what can be subtracted from him or her. (Siegfried Kracauer)
I do believe that the original sources of all religions should be taught, because with that we will find our similarities, not just our differences. I believe that if Mohammed, Buddha, Jesus, and Moses all got together they would be best of friends because the spiritual basis of all religions is something that builds unity. View quote
Yehuda Berg
The original fairy tale was about the youngest sister going into a room in the castle and finding all the bodies of the wives that came before her - she is confronted with truth, thinking about how often we think we know people and we really don't. View quote
Alice Hoffman
Sometimes you have the trends that's not that cool. You may have certain artists portraying these trends and don't really have that lifestyle, and then it gives off the wrong thing. And it becomes kinda corny after awhile. It's really about keeping hip-hop original and pushing away the corniness in it. View quote
Kendrick Lamar
The most advanced, creative and original thinking is always a product of historical context and the influences of previous geniuses, mentors, and collaborators on the mind of the originator. View quote
Michael J. Gelb