Being original is more important than fitting in, especially if you have to change to fit in — Lauren Willcox Copy Share Image
“a ship could be built entirely from foreign planks, but it must have its own form” — Osip Mandelstam Copy Share Image
What the world calls originality is only an unaccustomed method of tickling it. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Those writers who lie on the watch for novelty can have little hope of greatness; for great things cannot have escaped former… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Creativity starts with a little touch of insanity and culminates with the highest trust on its beauty, but throughout it maintains the… — Anuj Copy Share Image
“I'd rather be interesting, original, & unique then follow the pack. Revel in who you truly are & be liberated!” — Amy Leigh Mercree Copy Share Image
“No one has claim to originality in literature; all writers are more or less faithful amanuenses of the spirit, translators and annotators… — James E. Irby Copy Share Image
The majority of business men are not capable of an original thought, simply because they cannot escape the tyranny of reason. — David Ogilvy Copy Share Image
Don't be afraid to experiment. Stop living under laws. If it looks or sounds good to you stick with it. There is… — Anette Sandberg Copy Share Image
Originality implies a return to the origins, original is returning to the simplicity of the first solutions. — Antonio Gaudi Copy Share Image
Originality is the only thing that counts. But the originator uses material and ideas that occur round him and pass through him.… — George Gershwin Copy Share Image
Well, the way I play, I try not to be a 'repeater pencil', ya dig? Originality's the thing. You can have tone… — Lester Young Copy Share Image
The Great don't innovate, they fertilize seeds planted by lackeys, they leave to others the inhaling of the flowers whose roots they've… — Ned Rorem Copy Share Image
Through reproductive technology, postmodernist art dispenses with the aura. The fiction of the creating subject gives way to a frank confiscation, quotation,… — Douglas Crimp Copy Share Image
Tell the image makers and magazine sellers and the plastic surgeons that you are not afraid. That what you fear the most… — Marion Woodman Copy Share Image
What is originality? To see something that has no name as yet and hence cannot be mentioned although it stares us all… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“The mind is sharper and keener in seclusion and uninterrupted solitude. No big laboratory is needed in which to think. Originality thrives… — Tesla Copy Share Image
Kindle Worlds is a clever way to monetize a formerly underground trend, and to enable its participants to be remunerated. But it… — Russell Smith Copy Share Image
If anything, it's a little intimidating because there's usually a lot of brilliant work and a lot of brilliant ideas out there… — Chris Wedge Copy Share Image
Artists have their existential questions as human beings, and they address these questions in their works. But they are also thinking in… — Gunnar Kvaran Copy Share Image
The term "rational" and its variants (rationality, rationalism) are used in a lot of contexts in economic debate, both positively and negatively,… — John Quiggin Copy Share Image
What I sought in books was imagination. It was depth, depth of thought and feeling; some sort of extreme of subject matter;… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
“Your real, new self (which is Christ's and also yours, and yours just because it is His) will not come as long… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Walking along the tables, my spirits sank even lower. Almost all the better fiddles, the ones made by professionals, were antiqued copies.… — James N McKean Copy Share Image
“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… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
“The truth is that we never know from whom we originally get the ideas and beliefs that shape us, those that make… — Javier Marías Copy Share Image
“In light of this evidence, Bryan suggests that we should embrace nouns more thoughtfully. “Don’t Drink and Drive” could be rephrased as:… — Adam M. Grant Copy Share Image
