Write your own story... because you never want to end up just a footnote in somebody else's story. — JOHNREYES Copy Share Image
If you're not prepared to be wrong, you're not prepared to be original. — Ken Robinson Copy Share Image
Originality is so hip and cool, but to be original you must dare to be corny. — Bradford Winters 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
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
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
...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
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
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
The qualities in music which I considered most important - and still do - were beauty, simplicity, originality, discrimination, and sincerity. — Paul Desmond 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
Originality is also very important to a writer. And all of the writers I've mentioned, of course, are original, but it's important… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
In this world that we live in we have originality in literature, but we also have TV and movies. I write love… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
Our lazy embrace of Stewart and Colbert is a testament to our own impoverished comic standards. We have come to accept coy… — Steve Almond Copy Share Image
The ethics of plagiarism have turned into the narcissism of small differences: because journalism cannot own up to its heavily derivative nature,… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
...we have more faith in what we imitate than in what we originate. We cannot derive a sense of absolute certitude from… — Bruce Lee Copy Share Image
I've tried to maintain a certain bit of originality in that I don't want to necessarily sing like a soulful gospel singer… — Nadia Ali 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
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
Love remains a relation with the Other that turns into need, transcendent exteriority of the other, of the beloved. But love goes… — Emmanuel Levinas Copy Share Image
“People think genius a fine thing if it enables a man to write an exciting poem, or paint a picture, But in… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
“The most important trait of a writer is an authentic voice. Writers have to have faith in their own voice, and their… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
What you have felt and thought will by itself invent a new style, so that when people talk about style they are… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Pearl Harbor is a two-hour movie squeezed into three hours, about how on December 7, 1941, the Japanese staged a surprise attack… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
“I want to debunk the myth that originality requires extreme risk taking and persuade you that originals are actually far more ordinary… — Adam M. Grant Copy Share Image
“You couldn't get more original than Laura. Laura. Yes, she was an original, all right. One of a kind. Did they break… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
“That uncertainty can make us uncomfortable. We humans like to know where we are headed, but creativity demands that we travel paths… — Ed Catmull Copy Share Image
