Originality Quotes

Originality is the art of concealing your sources.

Anonymous

Utter originality is of course out of the question.

We do not inherit this land from our ancestors we borrow it from our children.

Why can't somebody give us a list of things that everybody thinks and nobody says and another list of things that everybody says and nobody thinks.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Originality is nothing but judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed one from another. The instruction we find in books is like fire. We fetch it from our neighbours kindle it at home communicate it to others and it becomes the property of all.

Voltaire

Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before but in saying exactly what you think yourself.

What a good thing Adam had - when he said a good thing he knew nobody had said it before.

All cases are unique and very similar to others.

T.S Eliot

I invent nothing. I rediscover.

There is nothing new under the sun.

Bible

When people are free to do as they please they usually imitate each other. Originality is deliberate and forced and partakes of the nature of a protest.

All profoundly original work looks ugly at first.

Clement Greenberg

Riding hard for glory.

What is originality? Undetected plagiarism.

Dean William R. Inge

The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new so we must think anew and act anew. We must disenthrall ourselves.

Abraham Lincoln

Originality is the art of concealing your sources.

Anonymous

Utter originality is of course out of the question.

We do not inherit this land from our ancestors we borrow it from our children.

Why can't somebody give us a list of things that everybody thinks and nobody says and another list of things that everybody says and nobody thinks.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Originality is nothing but judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed one from another. The instruction we find in books is like fire. We fetch it from our neighbours kindle it at home communicate it to others and it becomes the property of all.

Voltaire

Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before but in saying exactly what you think yourself.

What a good thing Adam had - when he said a good thing he knew nobody had said it before.

All cases are unique and very similar to others.

T.S Eliot

I invent nothing. I rediscover.

There is nothing new under the sun.

Bible

When people are free to do as they please they usually imitate each other. Originality is deliberate and forced and partakes of the nature of a protest.

All profoundly original work looks ugly at first.

Clement Greenberg

Riding hard for glory.

What is originality? Undetected plagiarism.

Dean William R. Inge

The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new so we must think anew and act anew. We must disenthrall ourselves.

Abraham Lincoln

A book written within, contains ideas and thoughts from all over, where each page explains itself.

Auliq-Ice

Originality and initiative are what I ask for my country.

Another great mistake is this; another understandable error is this: living to live the footprints of others when you have your own foot! Live your footprints! You were born unique! If possible, put the shoes of others, (they must fit you however) but don't walk as they walked and as much as possible, don't leave the same footprints they left except you were born to be like them or you can change the face of their footprints into a unique artifact!

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

People of different dispositions make the world go round. That's why it's insanity to try to be someone else.

The ethics of plagiarism have turned into the narcissism of small differences: because journalism cannot own up to its heavily derivative nature, it must enforce originality on the level of the sentence.

Malcolm Gladwell

In fact, Lig never formally resigned his editorship—he merely left his office late one morning, and has never returned since. Though well over a century has now passed, many members of the Guide staff still retain the romantic notion that he has simply popped out for a sandwich and will yet return to put in a solid afternoon's work. Strictly speaking, all editors since Lig Lury Jr., have therefore been designated acting editors, and Lig's desk is still preserved the way he left it, with the addition of a small sign that says LIG LURY, JR., EDITOR, MISSING, PRESUMED FED.

But he meant beauty in the sense of its organic connection to the material. And this is the connection that, for me, separates true stylists from decorators. The decorators are easy to recognize. That's why critics love them so.

Pampered content is a public resignation of artistic integrity.

If you fold the sentence sure you will see the other side but for sure you will loose the beauty of original one..

I am never forget the day I first meet the great Lobachevsky.In one word he told me secret of success in mathematics:Plagiarize!Plagiarize!Let no one else's work evade your eyes!Remember why the good Lord made your eyes!So don't shade your eyes,But plagiarize, plagiarize, plagiarize -Only be sure always to call it please 'resea

If an artist wants to be original, he should not look to art for inspiration, for art seeks its model in life, not art—and only life is rich enough to simulate originality.

He: "Whale you be my valentine?" She: "Dolphinitely.

Never forget the child inside

If you are saying the same thing as everyone else, then why would and why should anyone think you are different from everyone else?

The presence of hundreds of books had finally convinced Hermione that what they were doing was right.

Any local music scene at any point in time can be referred to as derivative of more well-known acts. The line separating influence from imitation is a blurry one. Very few artists are completely original; even great artists build upon what has occurred before, and add their personality and talent to create their own original expression.

You're an original, an individual, a masterpiece. Celebrate that; don't let your uniqueness make you shy. Don't be someone other than the wonder you are. Every star is important to the sky.

Any fool can do something cool and look cool, but it takes skill to make something uncool cool again.

Be yourself. An original is worth more than a copy.Style is King, 2008.

Madness, genius, originality - it's all the same thing; it's a breaking of our normal value structure and the substitution of another one.

Malcolm Bradbury

When your ideas shatter established thought, expect blowback.

Tim Fargo

Admirations are never paid in any way, try to make yourself of what you admire, and it will pay you with originality.

Auliq-Ice

It's okay to write a cliché in a first draft; it sets a marker that you can get far, far away from in the rewrites.

Stewart Stafford

Don’t try to be original, just try to be good.

Paul Rand

Following a trend is useful, until you start alienating the original. The last thing we want is to live in a world where everything is the same. Originality and individuality is key.

No mathematician should ever allow him to forget that mathematics, more than any other art or science, is a young man's game. … Galois died at twenty-one, Abel at twenty-seven, Ramanujan at thirty-three, Riemann at forty. There have been men who have done great work later; … [but] I do not know of a single instance of a major mathematical advance initiated by a man past fifty. … A mathematician may still be competent enough at sixty, but it is useless to expect him to have original ideas.

G H Hardy

When you release the illusion of control, you begin an effortless free-fall toward a grand reunion with your original self.

It is commonly said to my little friend Legion: Read the great writers for style. But I say to him: Read the great dead masters for ideas. Devour them, Fletcherize them, digest, assimilate, make them part of your blood; let the enriched blood visit your brain. The resultant activities will be fairly your own, and the little kinks and convolutions of your brain, which are entirely different from the kinks of any other brain, will furnish you all the style you will ever get.There are no really fresh ideas; just as there is not any fresh air. Air and ideas are refreshed and refreshing, vitalized and vitalizing; but the thoughts have been thought before and the air has been breathed before.

Eugene Manlove Rhodes

Originality is the key to being memorable.

Unlike written words which can mend those leaving the tip of your tongue never bend.

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