Originality Quotes

484 Originality quotes by 369 unique authors

Frederick Turner comes across in his poems as a man of impressively broad experience, intellectual brilliance, and originality. … He’s at his best when he… — Unknown Author
Love remains a relation with the Other that turns into need, transcendent exteriority of the other, of the beloved. But love goes beyond the beloved...… — Emmanuel Levinas
These are the days when men of all social disciplines and all political faiths seek the comfortable and the accepted; when the man of controversy… — John Kenneth Galbraith
The qualities in music which I considered most important - and still do - were beauty, simplicity, originality, discrimination, and sincerity. — Paul Desmond
Today many American corporations spend a great deal of money and time trying to increase the originality of their employees, hoping thereby to get a… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
My originality consists in putting the logic of the visible to the service of the invisible. — Odilon Redon
Style is originality; fashion is fascism. The two are eternally and unalterably opposed. — Lester Bangs
Oratory is good only if it has the qualities of fitness for the occasion, propriety of style, and originality of treatment, while in the case… — Isocrates
Originality is something that is easily exaggerated, especially by authors contemplating their own work. — John Kenneth Galbraith
Geniuses and prophets do not usually excel in professional learning, and their originality, if any, is often due precisely to the fact that they do… — Joseph A. Schumpeter
Originality consists of returning to the origin. Thus, originality means returning, through one's resources, to the simplicity of the early solutions. — Antonio Gaudi
Universities are renowned for their tolerance of unusual characters, especially if they show originality and dedication to their research. I have often made the comment… — Tony Attwood
Cerebration is the enemy of originality in art. — Martin Ritt
These short stories establish Sontag's originality . . . her unique vision, her success with experiments in the form . . . Sontag makes a… — Doris Grumbach
Dedication to quality, community, and originality without exception. — Zach Klein
Our lazy embrace of Stewart and Colbert is a testament to our own impoverished comic standards. We have come to accept coy mockery as genuine… — Steve Almond
To achieve originality we need to abandon the comforts of habit, reason, and the approval of our peers, and strike out in new directions. — Marty Neumeier
I advise everyone to find an island in this life. Find a place where this culture can't take energy away from you, sap your will… — Unknown Author
Originality is a return to the origin. — Antonio Gaudi
Schools stifle family originality by appropriating the critical time needed for any sound idea of family to develop - then they blame the family for… — John Taylor Gatto
The aim of public education is not to spread enlightenment at all; it is simply to reduce as many individuals as possible to the same… — H. L. Mencken
The term "rational" and its variants (rationality, rationalism) are used in a lot of contexts in economic debate, both positively and negatively, but nearly always… — John Quiggin
John Stowell plays jazz, but he doesn’t use any of the clichés; he has an incredible originality. John is a master creator. — Larry Coryell
But the French writers always had more originality and independence than others, and that regulator, which elsewhere was religion, long since ceased to exist for… — Henryk Sienkiewicz
The principal mark of genius is not perfection, but originality. — Robert Schumann

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