A thought is often original, though you have uttered it a hundred times. —Oliver Wendell Holmes More about this quote Tags: thought originality repitition Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
More quotations from Oliver Wendell Holmes To be 70 years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be 40 years old. —Oliver Wendell Holmes More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become. Except in cases of necessity, which are rare, leave your friend to learn unpleasant things from his enemies; they are ready enough to tell them. —Oliver Wendell Holmes More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email If I had a formula for bypassing trouble, I would not pass it round. Trouble creates a capacity to handle it. I don't embrace trouble; that's as bad as treating it as an enemy. But I do say meet it as a friend, for you'll see a lot of it and had better be on speaking terms with it. —Oliver Wendell Holmes More about this quote Tags: trouble Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email In youth we learn; in age we understand. —Oliver Wendell Holmes More about this quote Tags: youth Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons, and you will find that it is to the soul what the water bath is to the body. —Oliver Wendell Holmes More about this quote Tags: music Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
To be 70 years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be 40 years old. —Oliver Wendell Holmes More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become. Except in cases of necessity, which are rare, leave your friend to learn unpleasant things from his enemies; they are ready enough to tell them. —Oliver Wendell Holmes More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
If I had a formula for bypassing trouble, I would not pass it round. Trouble creates a capacity to handle it. I don't embrace trouble; that's as bad as treating it as an enemy. But I do say meet it as a friend, for you'll see a lot of it and had better be on speaking terms with it. —Oliver Wendell Holmes More about this quote Tags: trouble Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
In youth we learn; in age we understand. —Oliver Wendell Holmes More about this quote Tags: youth Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons, and you will find that it is to the soul what the water bath is to the body. —Oliver Wendell Holmes More about this quote Tags: music Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
More quotations tagged with “originality” True originality consists not in a new manner but in a new vision. —Edith Wharton More about this quote Tags: vision originality Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week. —George Bernard Shaw More about this quote Tags: thinking originality Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email How many scholars are there whose single book or article has generated more intellectual energy than the collected works of other, quantitatively far more 'productive,' scholars? The commensurating device known as the 'tape measure' may tell us that a Vermeer interior and a cow plop are both twenty inches across; there, however, the similarity ends. —James C. Scott in Two Cheers for Anarchism More about this quote Tags: art thought work creativity originality Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email Beautiful things grow out of shit. Nobody ever believes that. Everyone thinks that Beethoven had his string quartets completely in his head—they somehow appeared there and formed in his head—and all he had to do was write them down and they would be manifest to the world. But what I think is so interesting, and would really be a lesson that everybody should learn, is that things come out of nothing. Things evolve out of nothing. You know, the tiniest seed in the right situation turns into the most beautiful forest. And then the most promising seed in the wrong situation turns into nothing. I think this would be important for people to understand, because it gives people confidence in their own lives to know that's how things work. If you walk around with the idea that there are some people who are so gifted—they have these wonderful things in their head but and you're not one of them, you're just sort of a normal person, you could never do anything like that—then you live a different kind of life. You could have another kind of life where you could say, well, I know that things come from nothing very much, start from unpromising beginnings, and I'm an unpromising beginning, and I could start something. —Brian Eno More about this quote Tags: art creativity effort originality Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing. —Salvador Dali More about this quote Tags: creativity originality imitation Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
True originality consists not in a new manner but in a new vision. —Edith Wharton More about this quote Tags: vision originality Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week. —George Bernard Shaw More about this quote Tags: thinking originality Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
How many scholars are there whose single book or article has generated more intellectual energy than the collected works of other, quantitatively far more 'productive,' scholars? The commensurating device known as the 'tape measure' may tell us that a Vermeer interior and a cow plop are both twenty inches across; there, however, the similarity ends. —James C. Scott in Two Cheers for Anarchism More about this quote Tags: art thought work creativity originality Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Beautiful things grow out of shit. Nobody ever believes that. Everyone thinks that Beethoven had his string quartets completely in his head—they somehow appeared there and formed in his head—and all he had to do was write them down and they would be manifest to the world. But what I think is so interesting, and would really be a lesson that everybody should learn, is that things come out of nothing. Things evolve out of nothing. You know, the tiniest seed in the right situation turns into the most beautiful forest. And then the most promising seed in the wrong situation turns into nothing. I think this would be important for people to understand, because it gives people confidence in their own lives to know that's how things work. If you walk around with the idea that there are some people who are so gifted—they have these wonderful things in their head but and you're not one of them, you're just sort of a normal person, you could never do anything like that—then you live a different kind of life. You could have another kind of life where you could say, well, I know that things come from nothing very much, start from unpromising beginnings, and I'm an unpromising beginning, and I could start something. —Brian Eno More about this quote Tags: art creativity effort originality Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing. —Salvador Dali More about this quote Tags: creativity originality imitation Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email