Originality Quotes
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"Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new after all."
"I refuse to believe that Hendrix had the last possessed hand,that Joplin had the last drunken throat,that Morrison had the last enlightened mind."
"In order to share one's true brilliance one initially has to risk looking like a fool: genius is like a wheel that spins so fast, it at first glance appears to be sitting still."
"Solitude is the soil in which genius is planted, creativity grows, and legends bloom; faith in oneself is the rain that cultivates a hero to endure the storm, and bare the genesis of a new world, a new forest."
"Because even among contrarians, I’m a contrarian. But all of this is just words of bronze, third place rhetoric. What do I really mean when I say we want to shock society into awareness? Do we mean we want more originality and individuality? Less TV, more reading, writing, actual thinking? Less sheep, more shepherd pie? Yes, yes, and a little more pie, please. Oh, and some more sweet tea, too"
"Create with the heart; build with the mind."
"Once conform, once do what other people do because they do it, and a lethargy steals over all the finer nerves and faculties of the soul. She becomes all outer show and inward emptiness; dull, callous, and indifferent."
"All novels are sequels; influence is bliss."
"When most of the greatest individuals in history were misunderstood and you've spent so much of your own adult life misunderstood, you can't help but believe that the majority of people know very little worth knowing."
"Every man has a specific skill, whether it is discovered or not, that more readily and naturally comes to him than it would to another, and his own should be sought and polished. He excels best in his niche - originality loses its authenticity in one's efforts to obtain originality."
"originality and a feeling of one's own dignity are achieved only through work and struggle."
"One does not have to be a philosopher to be a successful artist, but he does have to be an artist to be a successful philosopher. His nature is to view the world in an unpredictable albeit useful light."
"I'd rather be interesting, original, & unique then follow the pack. Revel in who you truly are & be liberated!"
"You can't be a rebel without the scars that come with it. Truth is, some days scars are just as ugly as they are beautiful."
"Get off the treadmill of consumption, replication, and mediocrity. Begin lifting the weights of creativity, originality, and success."
"Our novice runs the risk of failure without additional traits: a strong inclination toward originality, a taste for research, and a desire to experience the incomparable gratification associated with the act of discovery itself."
"Animals do it largely for the REPRODUCTION, but so-called Social Animals (People) do it regularly thinking that it will give them SATISFACTION."
"Salvation lies not in the faithfulness to forms, but in the liberation from them."
"When you're socially awkward, you're isolated more than usual, and when you're isolated more than usual, your creativity is less compromised by what has already been said and done. All your hope in life starts to depend on your craft, so you try to perfect it. One reason I stay isolated more than the average person is to keep my creativity as fierce as possible. Being the odd one out may have its temporary disadvantages, but more importantly, it has its permanent advantages."
"Don’t try to be original, just try to be good."
"Our ancestors have invented, we can at least innovate."
"Originality and initiative are what I ask for my country."
"Forge your iron; shape it by force, not into a flower you already know but into what can also be a flower if you think it is and it is so."
"I need not adapt in certain ways. I am in fact but a visitor to this world, an ephemeral gasp within its long, tired history, and, before anything else, a follower of Christ. By this alone I have the power not to shuffle away from the Faith, the power to break loose from these marching-shackles of ongoing cultural and political pretense."
"Every story has already been told. Once you've read Anna Karenina, Bleak House, The Sound and the Fury, To Kill a Mockingbird and A Wrinkle in Time, you understand that there is really no reason to ever write another novel. Except that each writer brings to the table, if she will let herself, something that no one else in the history of time has ever had."; Mount Holyoke College, May 23, 1999]"
"Is it possible to say "It was a beautiful morning at the end of November" without feeling like Snoopy?"
"The best way to be original is to not copy anyone."
"Art builds upon art, builds upon art...nothing is purely original. We're all inspired by something...or someone. It's a never-ending chain of ideas...and it's magical."
"Dare to research on the originality of any information."
"All Authors come from the unified countrynent known as Australia. Authors live in the future where love is external."
"Pure wisdom is the 'fruit of life' banal platitudes are the 'bane of existence'."
"What is the point of being on this Earth if you are going to be like everyone else?"
Arnold Schwarzenegger, Total Recall: My Unbelievably True Life Story
"It is imperative you stay in touch with your inner self so you don’t lose the essence of who you truly are."
"All the good stuff has already been said by someone somewhere at some point in time. You just have to find it. Today, communication pretty much comes down to understanding - saying what you have to say clearly and effectively...and then living it."
"I never set out to be weird. It was always other people who called me weird."
"It is difficult to stop people from thinking on their own and exceedingly so, to get them to think on their own."
"If ever it's necessary to ride the bandwagon, it's done with one leg swinging out and eyes scoping the fields."
"If we had to earn our age by thinking for ourselves at least once a year, only a handful of people would reach adulthood."
"Stay true to yourself. An original is worth more than a copy."
Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
"Be yourself because an original is worth more than just a copy."
Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
"Be yourself because an original is always worth more than a copy."
Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
"Be different. Be original. Nobody will remember a specific flower in a garden filled with thousands of the same yellow flower, but they will remember the one that managed to change its color to purple."
Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
"People who copy you will always be one step behind."
"A person who is truly cool is a work of art. And remember, original works of art cost exponentially higher than imitations. Just take a look at the the coolest people in history. They will always be a part of history for being extremely original individuals, not imitations."
Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
"There is nothing new except what has been forgotten."
"A poor original is better than a good imitation."
"Absurdity and anti—absurdity are the two poles of creative energy."
"We can never be entirely original, as artists or as people. The genius and vision of those who came before us is too great for us to digress from entirely. Though, as creatures that are compelled to test and surpass our own creative abilities, we must always strive for that originality in everything we do in order to move the world forward."
"Be yourself. An original is worth more than a copy."
Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
"You were born an original work of art. Stay original."
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