The only way to be new is constantly to change yourself, and the only way to be original is to increase, enlarge, deepen your own personality.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Topic

Creativity Originality Self-improvement Personal growth

Author

W. Somerset Maugham

Source

Journals of W. Somerset Maugham

Medium

Personal journal

Language

English

Time

1949 1940s 20th century

Occupation

Novelist Writer

From

United Kingdom Europe

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Citation

Maugham, William Somerset. A Writer's Notebook. Greenwood Press, 1970.

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We have not journeyed all this way across the centuries, across the oceans, across the mountains, across the prairies, because we are made of sugar candy.

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Speech to the Canadian Parliament, December 30, 1941

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Topic
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Winston Churchill
Source
Speech to the Canadian Parliament, December 30, 1941
Medium
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Time
1941 1940s 20th century
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Original Citation

Churchill, Winston. "Some Chicken! Some Neck!" Joint session of Canadian Parliament. 30 Dec. 1941, Ottawa, Canada. Address.

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Another quote about Creativity

Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought.

Albert von Szent-Gyorgyi

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Topic
Discovery Originality Creativity
Speaker
Albert von Szent-Gyorgyi
Language
English
Time
1962 1960s 20th century
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Citation

Szent-Gyorgyi, Albert. Quoted in The Scientist Speculates: An Anthology of Partly-Baked Ideas, written by Irving John Good. Heinemann, 1962, ch. 1, sect. 6.