Rejecting Creativity Quotes

#1. In the meantime, most noble Sir, you have assigned this question to the geometry of position, but I am ignorant as to what this new discipline involves, and as to which types of problem Leibniz and Wolff expected to see expressed in this way.

Leonhard Euler

#2. I was the one in charge of the kids growing up.

Robert Rodriguez

#3. Certain seeds it will not nurture, certain fruit it will not bear and when the land kills of its own volition, we acquiesce and say the victim had no right to live

Toni Morrison

#4. I'm fascinated with actors, and I've never quite understood the process.

George Saunders

#5. Perhaps the most dangerous people in the world are the ones who believe in right and wrong but what they ascribe to as "right" and "wrong" is completely insane. They are bad with the conviction that they are good. That idea is the impetus behind evil.

Heather O'Neill

#6. Do you want to make it impossible for anyone to oppress his fellow-man? Then make sure that no one shall possess power.

Mikhail Bakunin

#7. We are like plants that have the one choice of being in or out of the light.

Simone Weil

#8. I plan to stay in music. I plan to keep making records.

Joan Jett

#9. Maybe it's not about the length of time you've known someone; maybe it's about instant recognition on an unconscious level. Our souls know each other.

S.E. Hall

#10. A clever graduate student could teach Fourier something new, but
surely no one claims that he could teach Archimedes to reason
better.

Paul Halmos

#11. As a society, let's all strive to make "old fashioned" the "new fashion". Husbands make it clear to your wives that you are on a mission to become her knight in shining armor.

Lindsey Rietzsch

#12. The training of a journalist, of working with words for thousands of hours, is extraordinarily useful for a fiction writer.

Tom Rachman

#13. My errors were more fertile than I ever imagined.

Jan Tschichold

#14. We're building our own fucking cubicles.

Thor Benson

#15. The right of petition, I have said, was not conferred on the People by the Constitution, but was a pre-existing right, reserved by the People out of the grants of power made to Congress.

Caleb Cushing

#16. When boasting ends, there dignity begins.

Owen D. Young