Originality Quotes

484 Originality quotes by 369 unique authors

All government, in its essence, is a conspiracy against the superior man: it's one permanent object is to oppress him and cripple him.... One of… — H. L. Mencken
We are the ORIGIN of our art, its homeland. Viewed this way, ORIGINALITY is the process of remaining true to ourselves. — Julia Cameron
It is better to fail in originality, than to succeed in imitation. He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great. Failure… — Herman Melville
Originality is dangerous. It challenges, questions, overturns assumptions, unsettles moral codes. — Salman Rushdie
All originality and no plagiarism makes for dull preaching. — Charles Spurgeon
From an art perspective, I dont know how you get better than Beetlejuice. In terms of originality and a look, its 100% unique. — Michael Keaton
The proponents of Steinitz' theory - Tarrasch and his supporters - tried to express Steinitz' teaching in the form of laconic rules, and as often… — Alexander Kotov
It is altogether an extraordinary growing, swarming, glittering, pushing, chattering, good-natured, cosmopolitan place, and perhaps in some ways the best imitation of Paris that can… — Henry James
All these teachers and [screenwriting] books mean you see movies that have been worked over by more committees wielding more rules, that all originality and… — Paul Schrader
If you make a show of going against the times, flaunting your unconventional ideas and unorthodox way, people will think that you only want attention… — Robert Greene
The question for the ultimate foundations and the ultimate meaning of mathematics remains open; we do not know in which direction it will find its… — Hermann Weyl
A designer…has the true responsibility to give his audiences not what they think they want, for this is almost invariably the usual, the accustomed, the… — Lester Beall
I believe the structure of 'House of Leaves' is far more difficult to explain than it is to read. And while I'd like to lay… — Mark Z. Danielewski
Story is about originality, not duplication — Robert McKee
An invitation to innovation, Radiant Orchid encourages expanded creativity and originality, which is increasingly valued in today's society. — Leatrice Eiseman
Creativity starts with a little touch of insanity and culminates with the highest trust on its beauty, but throughout it maintains the hands of originality,humanity… — Unknown Author
Real people conceive originality then think, write but never read of others' posts to copy to follow and the copycats follow exactly the opposite direction… — Unknown Author
It has to be acknowledged that in capitalist society, with its herds of hippies, originality has become a sort of fringe benefit, a mere convention,… — Mary McCarthy
He has left off reading altogether, to the great improvement of his originality. — Charles Lamb
Do not shun this maxim because it is common-place. On the contrary, take the closest heed of what observant men, who would probably like to… — Arthur Helps
People are always talking about originality, but what do they mean? As soon as we are born, the world begins to work upon us, and… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
It is generally supposed that where there is no QUOTATION, there will be found most originality; and as people like to lay out their money… — Isaac D'Israeli
We prefer to think that the absence of inverted commas guarantees the originality of a thought, whereas it may be merely that the utterer has… — Clifton Fadiman
The mark of highest originality lies in the ability to develop a familiar idea so fruitfully that it would seem no one else would ever… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Others can give you a name or a number, but they can never tell you who you really are. That is something you yourself can… — Thomas Merton

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