Howard Gardner Quotes

Originality is the only thing that counts. But the originator uses material and ideas that occur round him and pass through him. And out of his experience comes the original creation.

Creativity is a by-product of hard work. If I never have another really new idea, it won't matter.

Don't just rehash what came before. Find new things to do with it, in your unique voice.

I have nothing revolutionary or even novel to offer.

I guess I think about doing stuff that nobody else has done.

Creativity means learning where the rules exist, and then breaking them! Saying, "It's better this way." But you have to know the rules in order to break them with any grace.

Originality, of course, is what occurs when something new arises out of what's already been done.

I'm a very creative person, and the best part about creation is creating. So I always love to come up with new things, new ideas, new thoughts. I cherish things like that.

There are people who are originals and the stuff they make really is new. It isn't based on anything else. But I've decided I'm not that-I was never that. My abilities are to synthesize a wide range of references and ideas into something that feels relatively unified and coherent.

Success shuns the man who lacks ideas.

I try to never repeat a character. I always try to find something new and fresh and interesting that inspires me.

I am simply impressed by the unexpected insights which shower down on me when my job is to imagine, as contrasted with the woodenly familiar ideas which clutter my desk when my job is to tell the truth.

People with new ideas, people with the faintest capacity for saying something new, are extremely few in number, extraordinarily so, in fact.

Creativity makes life more fun and more interesting.

I don't ever want to do anything that's obvious, and I also want to find ways to do things that are extremely new and exciting and can make sense in bizarre ways. I always want things to make sense in really bizarre ways.

Always push to be creative.

There is no such thing as a new idea. We simply take a lot of old ideas and put them into a sort of mental kaleidoscope.

I've always been controversial because I offer new ideas. For me to be controversial, I think this is positive.

I'm a freestyle creative entrepreneur. Not a businessman. I like to create ventures in which creativity stands at the centre.

A truly creative person rids him or herself of all self-imposed limitations.

What makes me different as a scientist is that I'm kind of imaginative. The ideas just happen.

When you have one idea per year, it's already a miracle!

I had an immense advantage over many others dealing with the problem inasmuch as I had no fixed ideas derived from long-established practice to control and bias my mind, and did not suffer from the general belief that whatever is, is right.

You can't make experimental work by copying past work.

Originality is simply a pair of fresh eyes.