Charles Lamb Quotes

Teaching for creativity aims to encourage self-confidence, independence of mind, and the capacity to think for oneself.

Students must have initiative; they should not be mere imitators. They must learn to think and act for themselves - and be free.

Think your own thoughts.

I've never been resigned to ready-made ideas as I was to ready-made clothes, perhaps because although I couldn't sew, I could think.

Take the risk of thinking for yourself

When we can't think for ourselves, we can always quote

I think it's very desirable to be an individual and a free thinker.

As soon as you can say what you think and not what some other person has thought for you, you are on the way to being a remarkable man.

The human mind prefers to be spoon-fed with the thoughts of others, but deprived of such nourishment it will, reluctantly, begin to think for itself - and such thinking, remember, is original thinking and may have valuable results.

Each one of us has something to contribute. This really depends on each one doing their own thinking, but not following any kind of rule.

I think the enemy of creativity in the world today is that so much thinking is done for you.

In a society that tries to standardize thinking, individuality is not highly prized.

The supreme lesson of any education should be to think for yourself and to be yourself; absent this attainment, education creates dangerous, stupefying conformity.

I agree with no one's opinion. I have some of my own.

It's a question of not copying the masters, to look for something, good or bad, for oneself. To enter this liberated state of mind, one cannot copy the others.

The creative individual has the capacity to free himself from the web of social pressures in which the rest of us are caught. He is capable of questioning the assumptions that the rest of us accept.

I think as a director you have to make it your own. It'd be a mistake to approach a project with the idea of 'I'm going to do this the way I think somebody else would,' because then you'd never be clear on your idea.

The finest minds seem to be formed rather by efforts at original thinking, by endeavors to form new combinations, and to discover new truths, than by passively receiving the impressions of other men's ideas.

Well as I say, don't believe everything that you read and don't be afraid to think and it is alright to understand what has gone before but don't just rely on copying but develop your internal voice and your own internal means of interpreting.

I don't like mimicking people. I don't like repeating talking points. I don't like arguing with people just to argue. I like actually coming up with an interesting thing to say that I don't think has been said before in that way.

Don't be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people's thinking.

No doubt another may also think for me; but it is not therefore desirable that he should do so to the exclusion of my thinking for myself.

An opinion, though it is original, does not necessarily differ from the accepted opinion; the important thing is that it does not try to conform to it.

Even if it's such a lowly art as TV, you've got to get stuff off your chest, because that's what makes something different and original, your particular take on stuff.

...I'm no longer prepared to accept what people say and what's written in books. I must think things out for myself, and try to find my own answer.