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Originality Quotes by Lauren Willcox
- Being original is more important than fitting in, especially if you have to change to fit in
- Just remember that when people bitch about you, they are doing it because they have their own insecurities. They feel threatened by your beauty, intellegence,…
More Originality Quotes
- I stay true to myself and my style, and I am always pushing myself to be aware of that and be original. — Aaliyah
- Originality is the essence of true scholarship. Creativity is the soul of the true scholar. — Nnamdi Azikiwe
- Some writers confuse authenticity, which they ought always to aim at, with originality, which they should never bother about. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Millions of men have lived to fight, build palaces and boundaries, shape destinies and societies; but the compelling force of all times… — Ansel Adams
- Nearly all our originality comes from the stamp that time impresses upon our sensibility. — Charles Baudelaire
- The writer of originality, unless dead, is always shocking, scandalous; novelty disturbs and repels. — Simone de Beauvoir
- About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgment. — Josh Billings
- Men often applaud an imitation and hiss the real thing. — Aesop
- U2 is an original species... there are colours and feelings and emotional terrain that we occupy that is ours and ours alone. — Bono
- The original is unfaithful to the translation. — Jorge Luis Borges
- The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity. — Thomas Carlyle
- Originality is a thing we constantly clamour for, and constantly quarrel with. — Thomas Carlyle