Originality Quotes - Page 2

Sometimes we have to behave indifferent towards people who proclaim their love to us, just to see if they are really different.

Michael Bassey Johnson

Not like others? You may be inspired differently. Be bold, step out, follow YOUR intuition, no matter how sedate or impossible it may appear

A facility for quotation covers the absence of original thought.

Dorothy L. Sayers

Salvation lies not in the faithfulness to forms, but in the liberation from them.

Boris Pasternak

Breaking from the herd is better than getting lost in it.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Originality, not Intelligence, is the sign of a brilliant Author. All the Education in the world won't help someone who can't think for themselves.

...originality is little morethan the fine blending of influences.

Teju Cole

All the good stuff has already been said by someone somewhere at some point in time. You just have to find it. Today, communication pretty much comes down to understanding - saying what you have to say clearly and effectively...and then living it.

More than once I should have lost my soul to radicalism if it had been the originality it was mistaken for by its young converts.

Start telling the stories that only you can tell, because there’ll always be better writers than you and there’ll always be smarter writers than you. There will always be people who are much better at doing this or doing that – but you are the only you.

The reason some people put on a mask in not in their blood but it is in their fear that we judge them too soon.

Great artists are a little too gifted to be bound by boxes and labels, and in saying that, the label 'artist' is to be used lightly.

When I wrote this song I felt pretty unoriginal because everybody writes love songs, and everybody feels like their love is the most important and when their love ends and they get their heart broken, that nobody understands. And…that’s ridiculous, but so am I.

I don't make people comfortable but that's what couches are for.

Donna Lynn Hope

Why should i have fake smile on my face ,If my heart and soul suffering in unrest. it's not my duty to entertain you But its my responsibility to be Honest and Original

Mohammed Zaki Ansari

Just be yourself. An original is worth more than a copy.

The most mesmerizing of artists is always like one who was merely drawing in the sand and people came to watch.

Unlike a fountain that circulates the same water in an enclosed, perpetually recycling system, a human being circulates thoughts in an unlimited reservoir of self.Don't limit yourself to being a mere fountain when you contain an ocean.

The Japanese had no idea what elements of Western culture and institutions where the crucial ones, so they ended up copying everything, from western clothes and hair styles to the European practice of colonizing foreign people. Unfortunately, they took up empire-building at precisely the moment when the cost of imperialism began to exceed the benefits.

When we reject our origins, we become the product of whatever soil that we find ourselves planted; the colors of our leaves change as we consume borrowed nutrients with borrowed roots and, like a tree, we grow.

Every text is unique and, at the same time, it is the translation of another text. No text is entirely original because language itself, in its essence, is already a translation: firstly, of the non-verbal world and secondly, since every sign and every phrase is the translation of another sign and another phrase. However, this argument can be turned around without losing any of its validity: all texts are original because every translation is distinctive. Every translation, up to a certain point, is an invention and as such it constitutes a unique text.

The American Naming Authority, a collective of women studying the effects of names on behavior, decrees that a name should only have one user. The nearly 1 million American users of the name Mary, for example, do not constitute a unified army who might slaughter all users of the name Nancy, as was earlier supposed, but rather a saturation of the Mary Potential Quotient. Simply stated: Too many women with the same name produces widespread mediocrity and fatigue.

When you are convinced that what you offer is yours, whether it be mediocre or of standard quality, your originality will make people love you in a way you did not expect.

Michael Bassey Johnson

Some writers confuse authenticity, which they ought always to aim at, with originality, which they should never bother about.

Be Yourself. An original is worth more than a copy

Mockery is childish. It does not become you.

If everybody likes you, you are doing it wrong.

A great thinker does not necessarily have to discover a master idea but has to rediscover and to affirm a true but forgotten, ignored or misunderstood master idea and interpret it in all the diverse aspects of thought not previously done, in a powerful and consistent way, despite surrounding ignorance and opposition. This criterion we think would include all prophets and their true followers among the Muslim scholars. He is both a great and original thinker who brings new meanings and interpretations to old ideas, thereby providing both continuity and originality to the important intellectual and cultural problems of his time and through it, of mankind. Thus the brilliant interpretations of scholars and sages like al-Ghazali and Mulla Sadra then, and Iqbal and al-Attas now, deserve to be recognized and acknowledged as manifesting certain qualities of greatness and originality.

Wan Mohd Nor Wan Daud

Stay unknown until you know what you want to be known for.#StokesNotes

It's good when a man deceives your expectations, when he doesn't correspond to the preconceived notion of him. To belong to a type is the end of a man, his condemnation. If he doesn't fall into any category, if he's not representative, half of what's demanded of him is there. He's free of himself, he has achieved a grain of immortality.

Boris Pasternak

Why should anyone be so grateful for acceptance unless he doubts that he is acceptable, and why should a young, educated and successful couple have such doubts, if not due to the fact that they cannot accept themselves because they are not themselves.

Only those with no memory insist on their originality.

I've finally decided to write about profit for a changeBut before I really started I already started to feel lameBaby what's it to a beast who manely to money remains untamed

Enemies are often former or potential friends who have been denied - or think that they have been denied - something.

Literature for me… tries to heal the harm done by stories. (How much harm? Most of the atrocities of history have been created by stories, e.g., the Jews killed Jesus.) I follow Sartre that the freedom the author claims for herself must be shared with the reader. So that would mean that literature is stories that put themselves at the disposal of readers who want to heal themselves. Their healing power lies in their honesty, the freshness of their vision, the new and unexpected things they show, the increase in power and responsibility they give the reader.

It's not what you lift, it's where you carry it.

David Foster Wallace

I think the writer is initially set going by literature more than by life. When there are many writers all employing the same idiom, all looking out on more or less the same social scene, the individual writer will have to be more than ever careful that he isn't just doing badly what has already been done to completion. The presence alone of Faulkner in our midst makes a great difference in what the writer can and cannot permit himself to do. Nobody wants his mule and wagon stalled on the same track the Dixie Limited is roaring down.

Flannery O'Connor

Follow your dreams, not the crowd.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Stand up.Stand out.Stand firm.Stand strong.

Matshona Dhliwayo

To be envied for your giftedness is better than to be accepted for your untalentedness.

Matshona Dhliwayo

If it aint broke, break it. Then build something better.

Jonathan Culver

With cold eyes and indifferent mind the spectators regard the work. Connoissers admire the "skill" (as one admires a tightrope walker), enjoy the "quality of painting" (as one enjoys a pasty). But hungry souls go hungry away. The vulgar herd stroll through the rooms and pronounce the pictures "nice" or "splendid." Those who could speak have said nothing, those who could hear have heard nothing.

Wassily Kandinsky

There is nothing higher-class than real craftsmanship, diversity, originality and the service of skilled human hands.

No original thought still exists. People are original, each one of them. The same ideas that others had before you are waiting for you to bring them back to life in a new way. The part of who you are that is left behind within these old ideas is what makes them original all over again.

Ashly Lorenzana

Artistry, perhaps, is at its core being able to control change in interesting ways.

Jeff Ryan

Insanity is coasting through life in a miserable existence when you have a caged lion locked inside and the key to release it.

Up until relatively recently, creating original characters from scratch wasn't a major part of an author's job description. When Virgil wrote The Aeneid, he didn't invent Aeneas; Aeneas was a minor character in Homer's Odyssey whose unauthorized further adventures Virgil decided to chronicle. Shakespeare didn't invent Hamlet and King Lear; he plucked them from historical and literary sources. Writers weren't the originators of the stories they told; they were just the temporary curators of them. Real creation was something the gods did.All that has changed. Today the way we think of creativity is dominated by Romantic notions of individual genius and originality, and late-capitalist concepts of intellectual property, under which artists are businesspeople whose creations are the commodities they have for sale.

The value of an artist is more because of his originality than his skill.

Creativity is the ability to produce ideas that are both original and valuable.

You don't have to reinvent the wheel... just steal the hubcaps.” ― Michael P. Naughton,

michael p naughton

Originality of mind untainted,And enthusiasm for life, unlimited.

Innocent Mwatsikesimbe

Originality has nothing to do with producing something ’ new’ - it is about seeking the source, the primordial ground from which you draw and have always drawn your being. It comes about when one works from one’s origins, it is the dance of the eternal return… and is as ancient as the Dreamtime.

Billy Marshall-Stoneking

Yes, be different, but not for the vanities of being different.

Like almost all of Beefheart's recorded work, it was not even "ahead" of its time in 1969. Then and now, it stands outside time, trends, fads, hypes, the rise and fall of whole genres eclectic as walking Christmas trees, constituting a genre unto itself: truly, a musical Monolith if ever there was one.

When there is silence, Give your voice. When there is darkness, Shine your light. When there is desperation, Offer hope.

Tim Fargo

I would rather be a real Timex than a fake Rolex.

Knock-offs may look good, but they never last as long as the real thing.

Pseudo-artists think that being an artist means opposing whatever seems to be an establishment. That is not creative at all. True creativity is the ability to gain perspective wherever you may have missed it before.

If your looking to write a book, your creativity, originality and simplicity is what will distinguish you.

Creativity is easy.Originality is difficult.Relevance is a bitch.

Mark Rude

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