A man of great common sense and good taste is a man without originality or moral courage. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
If you want to be average, do what others do. If you want to be awesome, do what no one does. — Alexander Den Heijer Copy Share Image
Originality is the one thing which unoriginal minds cannot feel the use of. — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
“Literature is too full of 'acknowledgments' and squabbles about originality...” — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
It is necessary to any originality to have the courage to be an amateur. — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
Originality houses many rooms, and the views from the windows are all different. — Guy Davenport Copy Share Image
It's better to fail in originality then it is to succeed in imitation. — Conor Maynard Copy Share Image
Just keep thinking about the good side of ADD - the creativity and the originality it can stimulate. — David Neeleman Copy Share Image
Now in creative thought common sense is a bad master. Its sole criterion for judgement is that the new ideas shall look… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
For me, the arts are just an endless source of intelligence, brilliance, imagination, and originality. — Gail Levin Copy Share Image
“Madness, genius, originality - it's all the same thing; it's a breaking of our normal value structure and the substitution of another… — Malcolm Bradbury Copy Share Image
We prefer to think that the absence of inverted commas guarantees the originality of a thought, whereas it may be merely that… — Clifton Fadiman Copy Share Image
Self-projection is, more often than not, the move of the minor craftsman, of the tactics of the hour whose inherent weakness is,… — George Steiner Copy Share Image
I'm someone who speaks my mind, so it was important to me that my publisher value originality and creative expression. — Ava Max Copy Share Image
Some writers confuse authenticity, which they ought always to aim at, with originality, which they should never bother about. — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
As an aspiring artist, you should strive for originality of vision. Have something to say and a fresh way of saying it.… — Maurice Sendak Copy Share Image
Perhaps our originality manifests itself most strikingly in what we do with that which we did not originate. To discover something wholly… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
With its claims to profundity, boldness and originality, thinking still limits itself provisionally to the exclusively rational and scientific. ... As soon… — Robert Musil Copy Share Image
To be an artist and to be recognized by another artist who is, you know, just something you can't even put into… — Misty Copeland Copy Share Image
Object to merit and distinction, and you're setting your face against quality, independence, originality, genius against all the richness and variety of… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
“Originality has nothing to do with producing something ’ new’ - it is about seeking the source, the primordial ground from which… — Billy Marshall Stoneking Copy Share Image
To vest a few fallible men — prosecutors, judges, jurors — with vast powers of literary or artistic censorship, to convert them… — Jerome Frank Copy Share Image
One possible sign of low self-esteem is suppressing parts of yourself so you can fill someone else's expectations of what you should… — Robin Meade Copy Share Image
If you walk in the footprints of others, you wont make any of your own. — Gusso Montanna Copy Share Image
When people are very original, sometimes they are original as a way to resist the mainstream. — Michel Gondry Copy Share Image
Assimilate all you can from tradition and then say things in your own way. — John French Sloan Copy Share Image
“Conformism and non-conformism are symmetrical expressions of a lack of originality.” — Nicolás Gómez Dávila Copy Share Image
What a good thing Adam had. When he said a good thing he knew nobody had said it before. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Originality is genius. If you respect and care for it, it will take you on the ride of your life. — Barbara Sher Copy Share Image
Our purity lies in our originality. Our intuition lies in our innocence. — Harbhajan Singh Yogi Copy Share Image
Don't regret anything you do cause in the end it makes you who you are. We are all unique. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Originality is dangerous. It challenges, questions, overturns assumptions, unsettles moral codes. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Anyone who attempts anything original in the world must expect a bit of ridicule. — Alberto Juantorena Copy Share Image
“I was not born in a vacuum. Every thought I have belongs to someone else.” — Lenny Bruce Copy Share Image
What is the point of being on this Earth if you are going to be like everyone else? — Arnold Schwarzenegger Copy Share Image