It is better to fail in originality, than to succeed in imitation.

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""I know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I'll go to it laughing.""

- Herman Melville

Courage

"I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts."

- Herman Melville

Adversity

"It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation."

- Herman Melville

Creativity

"With a frigate’s anchors for my bridle-bitts and fasces of harpoons for spurs, would I could mount that whale and leap the topmost skies, to see whether the fabled heavens with all their countless tents really lie encamped beyond my mortal sight!"

- Herman Melville

Aspirations

"To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme."

- Herman Melville

Ambition

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"You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have."

- Maya Angelou

Creativity

"Limitations live only in our minds. But if we use our imaginations, our possibilities become limitless."

- Jamie Paolinetti

Creativity

"It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation."

- Herman Melville

Creativity

"I am so clever that sometimes I don’t understand a single word of what I am saying."

- Oscar Wilde

Creativity

"Show up, show up, show up, and after a while the muse shows up, too."

- Isabel Allende

Creativity