Quotes About Originality

In scientific work, creative thinking demands seeing things not seen previously, or in ways not previously imagined; and this necessitates jumping off from "normal" positions, and taking risks by departing from reality.

There are a great many sins in this world, none of them original.

He wasn't always trying to say witty things, and when he did say them, he felt no need to repeat them for changing company.

Where's the glory in repeating what others have done?

you have to flaunt the weird, my friends.

No one is like me, Sadie agreed. My amazingness is unique.

Great leaders have to think outside the box sometimes.

Her outfit looked like it been picked by a kindergartner—red sneakers, yellow tights, and a green tank dress. Perhaps she was on her way to a costume party dressed as a traffic light.

What is the glory in repeating whta others have done?

To be perfect, you have to feel perfect about yourself–avoid trying to be something you're not.

Each of us is an original.

She was dressed in a rainbow-striped jumper that looked as if it had been crocheted for a gorilla by a gorilla.

It's not my fault that the gray of everyone else's stories makes the color stand out.

the usual limits of understanding another's mind are compounded when trying to understand Lowell, a man who thought in metaphor, lived in history, and whose mind was engaged in a restless, stupendously elaborate game of three-dimensional chess. Lowell's mind was of a lurching, revising originality.

Since each of us was copied at some point from a normal person, there must be, for each of us, somewhere out there, a model getting on with his or her life.

Everyone's life is interesting, if it's different from your own.

Only dead fish swim with the stream.

He who walks out of step hears another drum.

You're making sense, old man, a sense of your own. You're not crazy the way they think. Yes...I see...

I figured, There's no sense doing anything when everything's already been done

He who- what was it?- walks out of step, hears another drum

Photographers who come up with power never get accused of imitating anyone else even though they photograph the same broom, same street, same portraits.

Far more than any other power, imagination is what sets human beings apart from every other species on earth.

Frivolity, under whatever form it appears, deprives attention of its power, thought of its originality, and sentiment of its depth.