“If originality and truth are your aim, cultivate your own back garden.” — Michael Powell 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
“Disappointment leads to clarity, which leads to conviction and true originality.” — Conan O'Brien Copy Share Image
He has left off reading altogether, to the great improvement of his originality. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
Beware originality. In women fashion originality can lead to carnival. — Coco Chanel Copy Share Image
It's incumbent on good public servants to maintain their voices and originality of thinking. — Ronan Farrow Copy Share Image
People who take the time to be alone usually have depth, originality, and quiet reserve. — John Miller 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
I actually believe that a lot of what people call originality has to do with persistence in the craft. — George Saunders Copy Share Image
Never change your originality for the sake of others because in this world, no one can play your role better than you,… — Bernajoy Vaal 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
“The ability to listen,watch and draw lessons from obvious and unlikely places breeds originality and growth” — Biz Stone Copy Share Image
To achieve originality we need to abandon the comforts of habit, reason, and the approval of our peers, and strike out in… — Marty Neumeier Copy Share Image
What we love might be awkward but as long as it's clean and we offended no one, there's no reason for us… — Jessel Jane Zozobrado Copy Share Image
It is better to fail in originality, than to succeed in imitation. He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
All government, in its essence, is a conspiracy against the superior man: it's one permanent object is to oppress him and cripple… — H. L. Mencken 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
I'm less interested in uniqueness than in goodness. I see so many concerts where the program notes are more interesting than the… — Anna Meredith Copy Share Image
Doing drugs is like anything else - predicated on taste, refinement, dignity, distinction, and originality. Cocaine is not cool, because it makes… — Hamilton Morris Copy Share Image
It is altogether an extraordinary growing, swarming, glittering, pushing, chattering, good-natured, cosmopolitan place, and perhaps in some ways the best imitation of… — Henry James Copy Share Image
We believe that Carlyle has, after all, more readers, and is better known to-day for thisvery originality of style, and that posterity… — Henry David Thoreau 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
The infallible criterion by which to distinguish the true from the would-be strategist is the degree of originality of his conceptions. It… — Alexander Alekhine 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
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
“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
“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
“Up until relatively recently, creating original characters from scratch wasn't a major part of an author's job description. When Virgil wrote The… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
“It takes gumption to wake up every day to face the fickle world and cleave to your morals and values Not flinch… — Emmanuella Raphaelle Copy Share Image
High culture is nothing but a child of that European perversion called history, the obsession we have with going forward, with considering… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“The bad news is, everyone looks great on paper and in interviews, but everyone also looks exactly the same. People have figured… — Dale Carnegie Training 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 be a contradiction, since whatever action can be defined in this way must evidently henceforth be unoriginal. Perhaps, then, it will be best to hint at it obliquely and by…” quote by David Bohm](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/769/david-bohm-4805_around-the-world_but-what-is-the-quality-of-originality-i_2214086.jpg)
