Original Quotes

Know yourself; keep your circle tight. Keep your friends and your work circle tight.

Women of genius commonly have masculine faces, figures and manners. In transplanting brains to an alien soil God leaves a little of the original earth clinging to the roots.

In the modern world of business, it is useless to be a creative, original thinker unless you can also sell what you create.

Since God made us originals, why stoop to be imitations.

The original is unfaithful to the translation.

A penguin cannot become a giraffe, so just be the best penguin you can be.

“Genius is divine perseverance.” Divine patience I believe he originally used, perseverance is better in my opinion. Genius I cannot claim nor even extra brightness but perseverance all can have.

Original thought is like original sin: both happened before you were born to people you could not have possibly met.

An original artist is unable to copy. So he has only to copy in order to be original.

For me, every translation is a new book, with the translator inevitably broadening the meaning of the original book in any translation.