Action Quote by Adam Grant

“I want to debunk the myth that originality requires extreme risk taking and persuade you that originals are actually far more ordinary than we…

— Adam M. Grant

There are people who are originals and the stuff they make really is new. It isn't based on anything else. But I've decided I'm…

— Steven Soderbergh

“Originality is a device that untalented people use to impress other untalented people to protect themselves from talented people...”

— William Gaddis

Very few people are original. There's very little original anything out there. Because to be original means you have to stand alone.

— Susan Powter

When people are very original, sometimes they are original as a way to resist the mainstream.

— Michel Gondry

The premise of 'The Originals' are places that have been open 50, 60, 75, 100 years or longer that are still doing it right…

— Emeril Lagasse

Originality is merely an illusion.

— Anonymous

Originality is nothing but judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed one from another.

— Voltaire

There are more copies than originals among people.

— Pablo Picasso

What is originality? It is being one's self, and reporting accurately what we see and are.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Originality consists in trying to be like everybody else and failing.

— Raymond Radiguet

I actually believe that a lot of what people call originality has to do with persistence in the craft.

— George Saunders