Don't change your originality for the sake of others because no one else can play your role better than you! — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I sang a song in Hindi; nobody even knew what that was. Singing about Native American issues, nobody did that... I had… — Buffy Sainte-Marie Copy Share Image
Aurelie Sheehan's absorbing stories have depth miles beneath their compelling surface. They radiate a wisdom, beauty and originality rare in contemporary fiction. — Frederic Tuten Copy Share Image
It is better to fail in originality, than to succeed in imitation. He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
What we love might be awkward but as long as it's clean and we offended no one, there's no reason for us… — Jessel Jane Zozobrado Copy Share Image
“The ability to listen,watch and draw lessons from obvious and unlikely places breeds originality and growth” — Biz Stone Copy Share Image
To achieve originality we need to abandon the comforts of habit, reason, and the approval of our peers, and strike out in… — Marty Neumeier Copy Share Image
I actually believe that a lot of what people call originality has to do with persistence in the craft. — George Saunders Copy Share Image
I would rather be the author of one original thought than conqueror of a hundred battles. Yet moral excellence is so much… — William Benton Clulow Copy Share Image
It's the originality of Pauls Toutonghi's voice and vision that makes this such a remarkable novel. Toutonghi is a true daredevil of… — Skip Horack Copy Share Image
The demand in India is to have a hit, which becomes a promotion for the movie and makes people come to the… — A. R. Rahman Copy Share Image
There's not a lot of pretty, young female artists that's out. It's a lot of talent out there, but they don't know… — Tyga Copy Share Image
Every true poet, I thought, must be original and originality a condition of poetic genius; so that each poet is like a… — Gerard Manley Hopkins Copy Share Image
I'm less interested in uniqueness than in goodness. I see so many concerts where the program notes are more interesting than the… — Anna Meredith Copy Share Image
Great genial power, one would almost say, consists in not being original at all; in being altogether receptive; in letting the world… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I think that short films often contain an originality, a creative freedom, an energy and an invention that is inspiring and entertaining.… — Kenneth Branagh Copy Share Image
Never change your originality for the sake of others because in this world, no one can play your role better than you,… — Bernajoy Vaal Copy Share Image
A lot of great art comes from the Afro-American male experience. Black men are geniuses, and many times their desperation, their position… — Ishmael Reed Copy Share Image
It is what you make it. Just make it good and expose it to the world. With enough exposure people will adapt.… — Anette Sandberg Copy Share Image
A strange lot this, to be dropped down in a world of barbarians - men who see clearly enough the barbarity of… — Ernest Howard Crosby Copy Share Image
Without moving beyond a mere copy, there is no artistry, no originality or artistic advancement; only mechanics. — Jennifer Young Copy Share Image
There was a part of me that felt afraid of people in Hollywood going: '**** Hollywood with their total lack of originality!'. — Colin Farrell Copy Share Image
Originality is nothing but judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed one from another. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
I always try to improve, to find new ways of expressing myself, to keep looking for truth and originality. — Burt Lancaster Copy Share Image
Conversation is interesting in proportion to the originality of the central ideas which serve as pivots and the fitness of the little… — Philip Gilbert Hamerton Copy Share Image
Original minds are not distinguished by being the first to see a new thing, but instead by seeing the old, familiar thing… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
...it is curiosity, initiative, originality, and the ruthless application of honesty that count in research- much more than feats of logic and… — Julian Huxley Copy Share Image
No man can quite emancipate himself from his age and country, or produce a model in which the education, the religion, the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Dissenting opinions are useful even when they're wrong. So instead of speaking to highly agreeable audiences, target suggestions to people with a… — Adam Grant Copy Share Image
The qualities in music which I considered most important - and still do - were beauty, simplicity, originality, discrimination, and sincerity. — Paul Desmond Copy Share Image
Enemies are often former or potential friends who have been denied - or think that they have been denied - something. — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
From an art perspective, I don't know how you get better than 'Beetlejuice.' In terms of originality and a look, it's 100%… — Michael Keaton Copy Share Image
Originality is the most deadly mirage in all of art. You can chase it from now until doomsday, and you'll only find… — Caitlín R. Kiernan Copy Share Image
Originality is a quality that cannot be imitated. The technique of the language, on the other hand, is something that belongs to… — John French Sloan Copy Share Image
What passes for an original opinion is, generally, merely an original phrase. Old lamps for new - yes; but it is always… — Katharine Fullerton Gerould Copy Share Image
The British feel of blues has been hard, rather than emotional. Far too much emphasis on 12 bar, too little attention to… — Alexis Korner 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 Somany Copy Share Image
When I was coming up, we weren't trying to get a hit or get paid, we were just trying to do our… — Bootsy Collins Copy Share Image
I'm trying to be original I'm trying to be unique, I don't want to follow people I want them to follow me. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Our originality shows itself most strikingly not in what we wholly originate but in what we do with that which we borrow… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
