The prerequisite of originality is the art of forgetting, at the proper moment, what we know. — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
Human nature has a much greater genius for sameness than for originality. — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
“Originality is a myth perpetuated by the naive, the romantic, and the unscrupulous.” — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
To admire on principle is the only way to imitate without loss of originality. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
“To be original is not creating your own idea; it's the essence of the idea in the reader's mind.” — Kaela Marooney Copy Share Image
If you don't design your own life plan, chances are you'll fall into someone else's plan. — Jehan Fostanes Nayga Copy Share Image
Thankfully, as much as Hollywood is interested in brands, I think people are still looking for originality and freshness. — Marc Platt Copy Share Image
He's a man of great common sense and good taste - meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
My advice to all new writers - male or female - it isn't easy, but forge ahead and be true to your… — Lucy Simon Copy Share Image
Johnny U was an American original, a piece of work like none other, excepting maybe Paul Bunyan and Horatio Alger. — Frank Deford Copy Share Image
Tradition kills originality; you keep repeating the same things in tradition! Behave like the sky; always create new and different things; be… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
“Many people fail to achieve originality because they generate a few ideas and then obsess about refining them to perfection.” — Adam M. Grant Copy Share Image
In proportion as our own mind is enlarged we discover a greater number of men of originality. Commonplace people see no difference… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
It is remarkable that when great discoveries are effected, their simplicity always seems to detract from their originality: on these occasions we… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
There is a crucial distinction to be made between innovation and originality. The second, unlike the first, can never break with what… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
True originality consists not in a new manner but in a new vision. That new, that personal, vision is attained only by… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
The aim of public education is not to spread enlightenment at all; it is simply to reduce as many individuals as possible… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
For my part, it is difficult for me to say what I owe to Ramanujan - his originality has been a constant… — G. H. Hardy Copy Share Image
I, myself, was always recognized . . . as the “slow one” in the family. It was quite true, and I knew… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
Real people conceive originality then think, write but never read of others' posts to copy to follow and the copycats follow exactly… — Anuj Copy Share Image
In European thought in general, as contrasted with American, vigor, life and originality have a kind of easy, professional utterance. American --… — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
The general advertisers and their agencies know almost nothing for sure, because they cannot measure the results of their advertising. They worship… — David Ogilvy Copy Share Image
Sometimes new voices have the most spectacular vision. It is uncluttered and organic. — Karan Johar Copy Share Image
Don't let anyone else hold your pen if you are writing your story. — Sushan R Sharma Copy Share Image
An original artist is unable to copy. So he has only to copy in order to be original. — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
I think people create MYTH so that they can hide originality of the society. — Punkinhead Abhishek Copy Share Image
As a young artist, especially in rap and at that time that I came out, originality was big. — Rakim Copy Share Image
Whatever goal, man has reached is due to his originality plus his brutality — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
The principle mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers. — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
From thee, great God, we spring, to thee we tend,- Path, motive, guide, original, and end. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Men are made by nature unequal. It is vain, therefore, to treat them as if they were equal. — James Anthony Froude Copy Share Image
