James Altucher Quotes

Originality is really important.

All good things which exist are the fruits of originality.

An absolutely new idea is one of the rarest things known to man.

What gets me excited is the original principle.

For me, it would be pointless to write a novel that I knew I could complete within a specific length of time. I could do that only by repeating something I had done before, and I've never wanted to do that.

Nobody really invents anything that hasn't been done before.

Originality is the one thing which unoriginal minds cannot feel the use of.

Good literature can be created only with something that is different from literature.

I try to get to those peculiar and particular things that you never think of to say.

Be brave enough to live life creatively. The creative place where no one else has ever been.

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

I think we're giving people something new that people didn't know was out there before.

Creativity is the greatest expression of liberty.

There are no original ideas. There are only original people.

Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.

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

Creativity seldom thrives in an atmosphere of great discipline or scrutiny. That's one reason we tend not to want our leaders to get too creative.

Originality is simply a pair of fresh eyes.

Originality is a thing we constantly clamour for, and constantly quarrel with.

Generally what I produce is new. Of course, they are often variations on the same subject.

To us, the value of a work lies in its newness: the invention of new forms, or a novel combination of old forms, the discovery of unknown worlds or the exploration of unfamiliar areas in worlds already discovered - revelations, surprises.

I don't think as big and as creative as Joss.

Genius is essentially creative; it bears the stamp of the individual who possesses it.

In the creative industries, there are few things more exciting than a zinger - a thought, idea, line, plot device - anything really, that just totally works in a fundamentally new and fresh way. It's like a uniquely lovely melody or a new taste idea in cooking. Something special, something new, something wonderful. They're also very rare.

The very essence of the creative is its novelty, and hence we have no standard by which to judge it.