Originality Quotes · Page 16

Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new after all.

— Abraham Lincoln

“Conceit makes the way God deals with me personally the binding standard for others.”

— Oswald Chambers

Originality is a concept possible only to a limited viewpoint.

— Robert Sheckley

Select only things to steal from that speak directly to your soul.

— Jim Jarmusch

Nothing is original. Steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration or fuels your imagination.

— Jim Jarmusch

Originality is so hip and cool, but to be original you must dare to be corny.

— Bradford Winters

There are too many copycats and not enough originals.

— Sonya Parker

Just be you, and if people dont like it, well, fuck them.

— Fabian Enriquez

No art form points like poetry to this originality of language as to its essential and abiding concern.

— Thomas Harrison

I think it's important for the American people to know that the position of originalism isn't itself an originalist position.

— Kimberle Williams Crenshaw

I Don't Care About Popularity. I Live In Reality. Based On Originality. Forget Looks. I Respect Personality :)

— Anonymous

The most foolish of all errors is for clever young men to believe that they forfeit their originality in recognizing a truth…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Should we all confess our sins to one another we would all laugh at one another for our lack of originality

— Anonymous

Everything has been said, and we have come too late, now that men have been living and thinking for seven thousand years…

— Jean de la Bruyere

“No man who cares about originality will ever be original. It's the man who's only thinking about doing a good job or…

— C.S. Lewis

So long as men praise you, you can only be sure that you are not yet on your own true path but…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

True originality has its foundations in the soul, not in the mind, and when there is an effort to create something different…

— Ignacy Jan Paderewski

These short stories establish Sontag's originality . . . her unique vision, her success with experiments in the form . . .…

— Doris Grumbach

Console yourself, dear man and brother; whatever you may be sure of, be sure at least of this, that you are dreadfully…

— James Russell Lowell

I think fashion today is horrible. Just open your eyes and look! What's good about it? There's no originality. Here and there,…

— Iris Apfel

The surest defense against Evil is extreme individualism, originality of thinking, whimsicality, even - if you will - eccentricity. That is, something…

— Joseph Brodsky

The thing that I was brought up to prize above everything else is the intellect. There is no problem that the intellect…

— Alan Garner

I believe the structure of 'House of Leaves' is far more difficult to explain than it is to read. And while I'd…

— Mark Z. Danielewski

There is no such thing as originality. It has all been said before, suffered before. If a person knows that, is it…

— Clive Barker

As a young artist, especially in rap and at that time that I came out, originality was big.

— Rakim

Whatever goal, man has reached is due to his originality plus his brutality

— Adolf Hitler

Style; all who have it have have one thing: originality.

— Diana Vreeland

It is the original idea that is unique, not the object itself.

— Victor Vasarely

I think people create MYTH so that they can hide originality of the society.

— Punkinhead Abhishek

“Our ancestors have invented, we can at least innovate.”

— Amit Kalantri

Sometimes new voices have the most spectacular vision. It is uncluttered and organic.

— Karan Johar

Don't let anyone else hold your pen if you are writing your story.

— Sushan R Sharma

There is nothing new under the sun, not even Manet.

— Jules Breton

An original artist is unable to copy. So he has only to copy in order to be original.

— Jean Cocteau

To admire on principle is the only way to imitate without loss of originality.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

If you don't design your own life plan, chances are you'll fall into someone else's plan.

— Jehan Fostanes Nayga

“To be original is not creating your own idea; it's the essence of the idea in the reader's mind.”

— Kaela Marooney

“Be yourself because an original is worth more than just a copy.”

— Suzy Kassem

Only through immitation do we develop toward originality.

— John Steinbeck

“Originality is a myth perpetuated by the naive, the romantic, and the unscrupulous.”

— Tom Robbins