Best 307 quotes in «originality quotes» category

One who thinks for himself is a threat to his enemies, a refuge to his acquaintances, a prize to his friends, and a gift to the world.

On Originality, First Pay Me

Originality and initiative are what I ask for my country.

Originality has nothing to do with producing something ’ new’ - it is about seeking the source, the primordial ground from which you draw and have always drawn your being. It comes about when one works from one’s origins, it is the dance of the eternal return… and is as ancient as the Dreamtime.

Originality is greedy - it requires full engagement.

Originality is the best form of rebellion.

Originality, not Intelligence, is the sign of a brilliant Author. All the Education in the world won't help someone who can't think for themselves.

...originality is little more than the fine blending of influences.

Originals cost more than imitations.

Original daisies are worth more than counterfeit roses.

Originality is putting its pants on while orthodoxy is ready to deliver.

Originality is the key to being memorable.

Originality is with its purity, and from that prospect, love purity is its one beloved.

Originality is everything! You don't wanna die a copy!

Originality of mind untainted, And enthusiasm for life, unlimited.

Our ancestors have invented, we can at least innovate.

Pampered content is a public resignation of artistic integrity.

Our lack of originality is something we usefully forget as we hunch over our—to us—ever-fascinating lives. My friend M., leaving his wife for a younger woman, used to complain, “People tell me it’s a cliché. But it doesn’t feel like a cliché to me.” Yet it was, and is. As all our lives would prove, if we could see them from a greater distance—from the viewpoint, say, of that higher creature imagined by Einstein.

People of different dispositions make the world go round. That's why it's insanity to try to be someone else.

Success is all about fine tuning our own original style following the process of identification and elimination of ineffective stuff and emphasizing the uniqueness in our originality.

People who copy you will always be one step behind.

Plenty of masterpieces are just one cliché after another, Mozart for example, but that's quite natural, because if you think about it, two clichés that have never met each other before can beget the most original and profound effect.

Sometimes a writer simply finds new ways of saying what has already been said because, ultimately, truth is unoriginal.

Plus, if you’re a copycat, you can never keep up. You’re always in a passive position. You never lead; you always follow. You give birth to something that’s already behind the times—just a knockoff, an inferior version of the original. That’s no way to live.

Pseudo-artists think that being an artist means opposing whatever seems to be an establishment. That is not creative at all. True creativity is the ability to gain perspective wherever you may have missed it before.

She is the only rose that doesn’t smell of plastic

Stand up. Stand out. Stand firm. Stand strong.

STAY AN ORIGINAL WORK OF ART In this short lifetime, Why not be -- True to your own voice, Your own story, Your own truths, Your own style, Beat and drum -- Instead of reflect the words, Songs and march of another? Why not use your soul's own Unique language, Instead of constantly try to toot something Not true, suitable or intended For your own instrument, Painting, Song, Or story? Why create an image you cannot produce? And if you can create a brilliant mask, How long will you really be able to hide your true soul Behind it Until its colors and plastic Begin to fade and melt with Time? Do not speak about truth when there is no truth in you. Do not speak about being yourself when you are trying hard to be someone else. Do not keep crying about your pain when you you have no shame creating pain in others. Do not step on truth, or someone else's truth, or someone who fights for truth -- And think there will be no repercussions; For there is more danger in silence, And for every action there will always be a reaction Of opposite or equal measure. Treasure integrity, Treasure your own story and truths. How will people remember you when you want to be an imitation? How will people remember your voice when you want to sound like another? Be so different that everybody will remember you. Be yourself because an original is worth more than a copy. Be true to yourself or your heart will never forgive you; For once you silence the music from your own instrument, Your true purpose and intended path will begin to fade. There is no greater crime Than ignoring your conscience And the truths intended For you to live, learn, And share. So Stay TRUE to YOU In everything You do. That itself is the purest And truest Art.

Stay unknown until you know what you want to be known for. #StokesNotes

Taco Hidde Bakker: Originality is an overrated concept. Nothing that we have can ever be properly ours. It is a good thing to acknowledge influence, and he who is open to many influences can in the end participate in a main stream (without becoming mainstream per se). Ken Schles: Linking into that stream is empowering. So much more unites us than we let ourselves believe. So much that we think original is nothing of the sort. Culture builds on itself and replicates itself. Tribal culture, capitalist culture thrives on highlighting dissimilarities, but shared aspects of culture unite us (and interest me). Our cultural regurgitations not only bind us together along points of unity, they replicate and radiate through us in thought and action. We mimic culture outright or mark it with unique signatures specific to our time in space.

Taking the road less travelled is easier; there is less congestion.

Talent silences your competition; genius deafens them.

The best way to be original is to not copy anyone.

That which is original creates a new origin. That which is original, by definition, must stray off the previously worn paths. It must wander; it must err.

The American Naming Authority, a collective of women studying the effects of names on behavior, decrees that a name should only have one user. The nearly 1 million American users of the name Mary, for example, do not constitute a unified army who might slaughter all users of the name Nancy, as was earlier supposed, but rather a saturation of the Mary Potential Quotient. Simply stated: Too many women with the same name produces widespread mediocrity and fatigue.

The best way to ensure that your writing is as good as you can make it is simply to consult your imagination and judgment as you write and take note of whether you are using an expression that has found its way into the stream simply because it's always there, swirling lifelessly in an eddy, where it was recently deposited by some other writer you have read.

The biggest prison in the universe is caring about what other people think of you.

The little children of my brain may be weakly enough, and may be sadly in want of a helping hand to aid them in their first attempts at walking on the stage of this great world; but, at any rate, they are not borrowed children.

The depth of your art is subject to originality; Your own authentic style.

The extent of creativity to which I admire in an individual is his ability to be richly creative while still, in a way, telling the truth. It is the fool who creates only his own lies, and the bore who simply repeats what he is told.

The Japanese had no idea what elements of Western culture and institutions where the crucial ones, so they ended up copying everything, from western clothes and hair styles to the European practice of colonizing foreign people. Unfortunately, they took up empire-building at precisely the moment when the cost of imperialism began to exceed the benefits.

The merit of originality is not novelty, it is sincerity. The believing man is the original man.

There is nothing higher-class than real craftsmanship, diversity, originality and the service of skilled human hands.

The most rewarding job in the universe is being yourself.

The "pathology of normalcy" rarely deteriorates to graver forms of mental illness because society produces the antidote against such deterioration. When pathological processes become socially patterned, they lose their individual character. On the contrary, the sick individual finds himself at home with all other similarly sick individuals. The whole culture is geared to this kind of pathology and arranged the means to give satisfactions which fit the pathology. The result is that the average individual does not experience the separateness and isolation the fully schizophrenic person feels. He feels at ease among those who suffer from the same deformation, in fact, it is the fully sane person who feels isolated in the insane society - and he may suffer so much from the incapacity to communicate that it is he who may become psychotic.

There can be no progress, if there is no original thinking. And there can be no original thinking, if you stick strictly to the known.

There is not an oath, or at least a curse amongst them, which has not been copied over and over again out of Ernulphus a thousand times but, like all other copies, how infinitely short of the force and spirit of the original! It is thought to be no bad oath - and by itself passes very well - "God damn you" - Set it beside Ernulphus's - "God Almighty the Father damn you - God the Son damn you - God the Holy Ghost damn you" - you see 'tis nothing. - There is an orientality in his, we cannot rise up to.

They say copying is a form of flattery, I say it's lack of originality.

Thinking outside of the box keeps you from suffocating inside of one.

The most original thing you possess in your life is your true self.