I actually believe that a lot of what people call originality has to do with persistence in the craft. — George Saunders Copy Share Image
A lot of great art comes from the Afro-American male experience. Black men are geniuses, and many times their desperation, their position… — Ishmael Reed Copy Share Image
It is what you make it. Just make it good and expose it to the world. With enough exposure people will adapt.… — Anette Sandberg Copy Share Image
Original minds are not distinguished by being the first to see a new thing, but instead by seeing the old, familiar thing… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I always try to improve, to find new ways of expressing myself, to keep looking for truth and originality. — Burt Lancaster Copy Share Image
Conversation is interesting in proportion to the originality of the central ideas which serve as pivots and the fitness of the little… — Philip Gilbert Hamerton Copy Share Image
...it is curiosity, initiative, originality, and the ruthless application of honesty that count in research- much more than feats of logic and… — Julian Huxley 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
As far as I am concerned, taking photographs is a means of understanding which cannot be separated from other means of visual… — Henri Cartier-Bresson 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
I think that people are really hungry for original content. I think there's a sense of reboots and remakes, and we're lacking… — Miles Millar 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
I pretend no originality in observing that mass education was motivated in part by the perceived need to "educate them to keep… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The question for the ultimate foundations and the ultimate meaning of mathematics remains open; we do not know in which direction it… — Hermann Weyl Copy Share Image
“We can never be entirely original, as artists or as people. The genius and vision of those who came before us is… — Jessica Lave Copy Share Image
All the poets are indebted more or less to those who have gone before them; even Homer's originality has been questioned, and… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
No man can quite emancipate himself from his age and country, or produce a model in which the education, the religion, the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The qualities in music which I considered most important - and still do - were beauty, simplicity, originality, discrimination, and sincerity. — Paul Desmond Copy Share Image
Originality is the most deadly mirage in all of art. You can chase it from now until doomsday, and you'll only find… — Caitlín R. Kiernan Copy Share Image
Enemies are often former or potential friends who have been denied - or think that they have been denied - something. — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
From an art perspective, I don't know how you get better than 'Beetlejuice.' In terms of originality and a look, it's 100%… — Michael Keaton Copy Share Image
Geniuses can be scintillating and geniuses can be somber, but it's that inescapable sorrowful depth that shines through-originality. — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
Strive for originality in thought and action. Be first; Be different; And be daring. Only then will you make a significant difference… — Ernie J Zelinski Copy Share Image
It may be conceit, but I believe the subject will interest the public, and I am sure that the views are original. — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
We prefer to believe that the absence of inverted commas guarantees the originality of a thought, whereas it may be merely that… — Clifton Fadiman Copy Share Image
Creativity can solve almost any problem. The creative act, the defeat of habit by originality, overcomes everything. — George Lois Copy Share Image
If in many of my productions terror has been the thesis, I maintain that terror is not of Germany, but of the… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
All my originality consists?in giving life in human fashion to beings which are impossible according to the laws of possibility. — Odilon Redon Copy Share Image
The mark of highest originality lies in the ability to develop a familiar idea so fruitfully that it would seem no one… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Don't compare yourself to anyone. Be happy to be the wonder unique, very special person that you are. — Susan Polis Schutz Copy Share Image
John Stowell plays jazz, but he doesn’t use any of the clichés; he has an incredible originality. John is a master creator. — Larry Coryell Copy Share Image
“The older I get, the less impressed I become with originality. These days, I'm far more moved by authenticity.” — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
People took the word "clean" out of context. My mother had an expression: "clean as a whistle, sharp as a tack." I… — Joe Biden Copy Share Image
“Originality is crucial. We as artists are trendsetters. People want to be like us. Every record brings out new elements of artistry.” — Lisa Goldin Copy Share Image
Originality maintains its glow even in the midst of its copies being appreciated by various people with the plenty of flow.That's the… — Anuj Somany Copy Share Image
'Deadpool' is massively successful because they made a very unique movie. That uniqueness and originality, try to imitate that. Not, 'How about… — Lexi Alexander Copy Share Image
“Common people are often enough; that is why God made so many of them. Your job is to be--- EXTRAORDINARY.” — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
Select only things to steal that speak directly to your soul. If you do this, your work (and theft) will be authentic.… — Jim Jarmusch Copy Share Image
Shadows are people who don't know the difference between being an individual, and being a close copy. Step out of the path,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“When you release the illusion of control, you begin an effortless free-fall toward a grand reunion with your original self.” — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
