Nearly all our originality comes from the stamp that time impresses upon our sensibility. — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
I'd like to be an original, to be myself and not a pale copy of anyone else. — Julie Andrews Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as a completely original technique or subject. — Donald Lambert Copy Share Image
“Stay unknown until you know what you want to be known for. #StokesNotes” — Craig Stokes Copy Share Image
Find yourself and express yourself in your own particular way. Express your love openly. — Miguel Angel Ruiz Copy Share Image
I'm not only a romanticist but a romantic myself. I take it for granted the originality matters. — Paul Fry Copy Share Image
Lack of originality, everywhere, all over the world, from time immemorial, has always been considered the foremost quality and the recommendation of… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
That was the very centre of his genius - he invented things that anyone could have thought of, and men who can… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
The greater intellect one has, the more originality one finds in men. Ordinary persons find no difference between men. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
A certain strangeness, something of the blossoming of the aloe, is indeed an element in all true works of art: that they… — Walter Pater 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 Copy Share Image
Those writers who lie on the watch for novelty can have little hope of greatness; for great things cannot have escaped former… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Im Tired Of Being Called Fat And Ugly If Yhu Think That Fuck Yhu I Make Myself Like This So It Shudnt… — Angela Webb Copy Share Image
“We achieve originality of style not by avoiding the influences of others but by blending them into a combination that has not… — Scott Norton Copy Share Image
If I could be really competent, that goes such a long way toward things, because the majority of things are not competent.… — Jon Stewart Copy Share Image
“but it can’t tell you where you ought to go, unless where you ought to go is a continuation of where you… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
There are the those whose own vulgar normality is so apparent and stultifying that they strive to escape it. They affect flamboyant… — Katherine Dunn Copy Share Image
“I am never forget the day I first meet the great Lobachevsky. In one word he told me secret of success in… — Tom Lehrer Copy Share Image
Perfection is the satin-lined casket of creativity and originality. If you are a perfectionist, at least stop telling everybody you're one and… — Augusten Burroughs Copy Share Image
“Plus, if you’re a copycat, you can never keep up. You’re always in a passive position. You never lead; you always follow.… — Jason Fried Copy Share Image
The decent moderation of today will be the least of human things tomorrow. At the time of the Spanish Inquisition, the opinion… — Maurice Maeterlinck Copy Share Image
All preceptors should have that kind of genius described by Tacitus, "equal to their business, but not above it;" a patient industry,… — Charles Caleb Colton 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
As not every instance of similitude can be considered as a proof of imitation, so not every imitation ought to be stigmatised… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“For people never say anything the same way twice; no two of them ever say it the same. The greatest imaginative writer… — Nelson Algren Copy Share Image
“But what is [the] quality of originality? It is very hard to define or specify. Indeed, to define originality would in itself… — David Bohm Copy Share Image
“Think outside the box? Indeed. But to add balance to that, one should not in the process forget what the inside of… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
The wonderful thing about theater is that anything, no matter how tendentious, no matter how stupid it sounds at first glance, can… — Terry Teachout Copy Share Image
“There is nothing so annoying as to be fairly rich, of a fairly good family, pleasing presence, average education, to be "not… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
Writing itself, if not misunderstood and abused, becomes a way of empowering the writing self. It converts anger and disappointment into deliberate… — Ted Solotaroff Copy Share Image
Stop living to please everyone else. God gave you a unique heart, so do what He wants you to do. — Joyce Meyer Copy Share Image
Originality, I fear, is too often only undetected and frequently unconscious plagiarism. — William Ralph Inge Copy Share Image
Cute, weird, original girls with a big heart are so much more attractive then fake barbie wannabes. — Luke Parkes Copy Share Image
The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers. — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
While an original is always hard to find, he is easy to recognize. — John Landis Mason Copy Share Image
My originality consists in putting the logic of the visible to the service of the invisible. — Odilon Redon Copy Share Image
The more intelligent a man is, the more originality he discovers in others. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
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