Be the one who speaks out above the crowd when everyone else follows the norms. — Ritu Ghatourey Copy Share Image
The personality and songwriting of Holy Ghost! trumps the originality card any day. — Anthony Fantano Copy Share Image
Real progress is progress in charity, all other advances being secondary thereto. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Originality is so hip and cool, but to be original you must dare to be corny. — Bradford Winters Copy Share Image
Knowing how to paint and to use one's colors rightly has not any connection with originality. This originality consists in properly expressing… — Thomas Couture Copy Share Image
Derivative writers seem versatile because they imitate many others, past and present. Artistic originality has only itself to copy. — Vladimir Nabokov 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
About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgment. — Josh Billings Copy Share Image
Originality exists in every individual because each of us differs from the others. We are all primary numbers divisible only by ourselves. — Jean Guitton Copy Share Image
Knowledge comes from the past, so it's safe. It is also out of date. It's the opposite of originality... Experience is the… — Paul Arden Copy Share Image
“Nothing is invented, for it’s written in nature first. Originality consists of returning to the origin.” — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
Stay positive in a world full of negativity. Stay loyal in world full of distrust. Lastly, stay original in a world full… — Ephrem Hardin Copy Share Image
“The whole of life is like that now. It’s even impossible to think naturally because opinion has been set out for you… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
“The Japanese had no idea what elements of Western culture and institutions where the crucial ones, so they ended up copying everything,… — Niall Ferguson Copy Share Image
Today many American corporations spend a great deal of money and time trying to increase the originality of their employees, hoping thereby… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
To write well, to have style ... is to paint. The master faculty of style is therefore the visual memory. If a… — Remy de Gourmont Copy Share Image
No writer can be fully convicted of imitation except there is a concurrence of more resemblance than can be imagined to have… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“Like almost all of Beefheart's recorded work, it was not even "ahead" of its time in 1969. Then and now, it stands… — Lester Bangs Copy Share Image
I think we ought to decide that man-hating is not only respectable but honorable. To be a misandrist a woman needs considerable… — Joanna Russ Copy Share Image
“McKee's a genius. And hillarious. You'll like him, too, Charles. He's all for originality, just like you. He says that we have… — Donald Kaufman Copy Share Image
“Conceit makes the way God deals with me personally the binding standard for others.” — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
Nothing is original. Steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration or fuels your imagination. — Jim Jarmusch Copy Share Image
“Disappointment leads to clarity, which leads to conviction and true originality.” — Conan O'Brien Copy Share Image
Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new after all. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
“If originality and truth are your aim, cultivate your own back garden.” — Michael Powell Copy Share Image
Sometimes you have to be worn out and burnt out to become authentic and original. — Michael Eisner Copy Share Image
He has left off reading altogether, to the great improvement of his originality. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
If you're not prepared to be wrong, you're not prepared to be original. — Ken Robinson Copy Share Image
People who take the time to be alone usually have depth, originality, and quiet reserve. — John Miller Copy Share Image
Write your own story... because you never want to end up just a footnote in somebody else's story. — JOHNREYES Copy Share Image
It's incumbent on good public servants to maintain their voices and originality of thinking. — Ronan Farrow Copy Share Image
Beware originality. In women fashion originality can lead to carnival. — Coco Chanel Copy Share Image
