Originality Quotes
484 quotes by 369 authors
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One possible sign of low self-esteem is suppressing parts of yourself so you can fill someone else's expectations of what you should be. You try…
— Robin Meade
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In proportion as our own mind is enlarged we discover a greater number of men of originality. Commonplace people see no difference between one man…
— Blaise Pascal
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The Christian life is stamped by 'moral spontaneous originality,' consequently the disciple is open to the same charge that Jesus Christ was, viz., that of…
— Oswald Chambers
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Wherein lies a poet's claim to originality? That he invents his incidents? No. That he was present when his episodes had their birth? No. That…
— Edith Wharton
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It is part of the amazing originality of Christ that there is to be found in his teaching no word whatever which suggests a difference…
— Maude Royden
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Originality is simply a pair of fresh eyes....
— Thomas Wentworth Higginson
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Originality is... a by-product of sincerity.
— Marianne Moore
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If you fall in love with an idea, you won't see the merits of alternative approaches-and will probably miss an opportunity or two. One of…
— Roger von Oech
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Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago.
— Bernard Berenson
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Nothing is new except arrangement.
— Will Durant
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Begin with another's to end with your own.
— Baltasar Gracian
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Creativity, which is the expression of our originality, helps us stay mindful that what we bring to the world is completely original and cannot be…
— Brené Brown
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What stories are new? All types of all characters march through all fables.
— William Makepeace Thackeray
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Utter originality is, of course, out of the question.
— Ezra Pound
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Those writers who lie on the watch for novelty can have little hope of greatness; for great things cannot have escaped former observation.
— Samuel Johnson
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They who have light in themselves will not revolve as satellites.
— Seneca the Younger
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The prerequisite of originality is the art of forgetting, at the proper moment, what we know.
— Arthur Koestler
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Perhaps our originality manifests itself most strikingly in what we do with that which we did not originate. To discover something wholly new can be…
— Eric Hoffer
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Originality usually amounts only to plagiarizing something unfamiliar.
— Katharine Fullerton Gerould
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Originality is undetected plagiarism.
— William Ralph Inge
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