Originality in literature is only a new coat of paint on an old house. — Austin O'Malley Copy Share Image
Always be the first version of yourself rather than being a second version of someone else. — Jaseem Kapoor Copy Share Image
“In your lifetime, if you can come up with one original idea, you have accomplished a great deal.” — Max Roach Copy Share Image
Nature is the fountain's head, the source from whence all originality must spring. — John Constable Copy Share Image
Never change your originality for the sake of others because no one can play your role better than you. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“You are the salt that adds flavor to the earth, and the whole universe is waiting to savor your uniqueness.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
Cinema reflects culture and there is no harm in adapting technology, but not at the cost of losing your originality. — Jackie Chan Copy Share Image
I was not born to fit in, I am born to stand out. How can you love someone if you don't love… — Apple Homecillo Copy Share Image
For all filmmakers: True originality is the key, only direct your own unique movie scripts, be a megalomaniac and not give a… — Tom Six Copy Share Image
A Bird Asked A Bee: You Work So Had To Get Honey And People Steal That From You. Don't You Feel Bad?… — Pacifiersucker Copy Share Image
Nast is an artist of uncommon abilities. His works evince originality of conception, freedom of manner, lofty appreciation of national ideas and… — James Jackson Jarves Copy Share Image
I don't ever want to blend in...I want to stand out. I want people to look at me and wish they could… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Small business people have gotten us out of nearly all modern recessions - not by waiting for others to fix things or… — Oliver DeMille Copy Share Image
It is not possible to be original by trying to be original - those who attempt this in the arts will be… — Michael Foley Copy Share Image
I believe that... my first successes in my out-of-focus pictures were a fluke. That is to say, that when focusing and coming… — Julia Margaret Cameron Copy Share Image
The proponents of Steinitz' theory - Tarrasch and his supporters - tried to express Steinitz' teaching in the form of laconic rules,… — Alexander Kotov Copy Share Image
“It’s clear that you want to seem original. But is it possible that you—?” “It is clear,” interrupted I-330, “that to be… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
People are always talking about originality; but what do they mean? As soon as we are born, the world begins to work… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
[Six principles that make for a good story:] 1. Absence of lengthy verbiage of a political-social-economic nature; 2. total objectivity; 3. truthful… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
Hollywood. It lacks originality. Remake sucks.' But I had to look deeper into it from my own perspective. We are not trying… — Colin Farrell Copy Share Image
In Japan we have the phrase, "Shoshin," which means "beginner's mind." Our "original mind" includes everything within itself. It is always rich… — Shunryu Suzuki Copy Share Image
What tender and devoted mother wouldn't be dismayed and ill with terror at her son's or daughter's stepping even one hair's breath… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
“Every text is unique and, at the same time, it is the translation of another text. No text is entirely original because… — Octavio Paz Copy Share Image
Steve Grand is the creator of what I think is the nearest approach to artificial life so far, and his first book,… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Last summer I was staying at a house in Hampshire which was famous for the brilliance and the originality of its gardens.… — Beverley Nichols Copy Share Image
Ignorance of the law of irreducibility was no excuse. I could no longer excuse myself with the claim that I didn't know… — Clarice Lispector Copy Share Image
The so-called ‘crank’ may be quite original in his ideas. … Invention, however, in the engineering sense involves originality; but not that… — Elihu Thomson Copy Share Image
“That uncertainty can make us uncomfortable. We humans like to know where we are headed, but creativity demands that we travel paths… — Ed Catmull Copy Share Image