Offers Quote by Sean Penn

Our originality shows itself most strikingly not in what we wholly originate but in what we do with that which we borrow from others.

— Eric Hoffer

If we can just try every day to be the best versions of ourselves, we are offering to the world the best addition to…

— Erin Willett

Our debt to tradition through reading and conversation is so massive, our protest so rare and insignificant-and this commonly on the ground of other…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is no individuality if your idea of being original is to follow the trend.

— Anonymous

Our identities really are a constant negotiation between the story we tell about ourselves and the narrative our societies like to recite.

— Thomas Chatterton Williams

Whatever we, as prospective participants unaware of our specific features, would desire society to be like is what, morally speaking, we ought to institute.

— Thomas Pogge

It is no longer enough to point out what we don't like, we have to work out 'What sort of society do we want?

— Sheila Rowbotham

We are in the presence of a new organization of society. Our life has broken away from the past.

— Woodrow Wilson

“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

Originality is a thing we constantly clamour for, and constantly quarrel with.

— Thomas Carlyle

It's really important that we not replicate what came before us, but we do something of our own, that's reflective of our own time,…

— Peter Clewes

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

— Ralph Waldo Emerson