Take here the grand secret; if not of pleasing all, yet of displeasing none, and court mediocrity, avoid originality, and sacrifice to… — Johann Kaspar Lavater Copy Share Image
I've done really well so far in my career by trusting the audience to be as dissatisfied with convention as I am,… — Christopher Nolan Copy Share Image
Individuality and originality is was separates good and great artists! How much they can move people with what they do! If they… — Hiromi 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
“There is not an oath, or at least a curse amongst them, which has not been copied over and over again out… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
Imposing an alleged uniform general method upon everybody breeds mediocrity in all but the very exceptional. And measuring originality by deviation from… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
If you're not prepared to be wrong, you're not prepared to be original. — Ken Robinson Copy Share Image
“The merit of originality is not novelty, it is sincerity. The believing man is the original man.” — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
If the original thoughts in life have been coined self with the enthusiasm, energy and effort, then the same empowered person will… — Anuj Somany Copy Share Image
In exploring new and doubtful tracts of speculation, the mind strikes out true and original views; as a drop of water hesitates… — William Hazlitt 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
The Bible is full of interest. It has noble poetry in it; and some clever fables; and some blood-drenched history; and some… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
It is the fate of every great achievement to be pounced upon by pedants and imitators who drain it of life and… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
“It's good when a man deceives your expectations, when he doesn't correspond to the preconceived notion of him. To belong to a… — Boris Pasternak Copy Share Image
What audiences end up with word-wise is a hackneyed, completely derivative copy of old Hollywood romances, a movie that reeks of phoniness… — Kenneth Turan Copy Share Image
“I don't make people comfortable but that's what couches are for.” — Donna Lynn Hope Copy Share Image
It is a human necessity no matter how bad life gets or dinghy a place can be to find the beauty inside… — Ryan Swain Copy Share Image
...When our thoughts revolve we are so often deceived into supposing that their violent movement is an indication of their vigorous originality,… — Janet Frame Copy Share Image
“I believe in the power of origins, a belief that, as Ecclesiastes put it, 'that wich is done is that wich shall… — Nick Tosches Copy Share Image
It is necessary to any originality to have the courage to be an amateur. — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
The will to originality is not the will to be peculiar and unlike anybody else; it means the desire to derive one's… — Nikolai Berdyaev 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
Do not shun this maxim because it is common-place. On the contrary, take the closest heed of what observant men, who would… — Arthur Helps Copy Share Image
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