Quotes About Originality

I will not jump with common spiritsAnd rank me with the barbarous multitude.

You are the first one, so we are your servants," another replies. "That makes sense," agrees another clone.

As if his whole vocationWere endless imitation.

Every great and original writer, in proportion as he is great or original, must himself create the taste by which he is to be relished.

Every great and original writer, in proportion as he is great and original, must himself create the taste by which he is to be relished.

I didn't want to be the typical teen idol. I didn't want to be Leif Garrett. I didn't want to be Shaun Cassidy, David Cassidy or Parker Stevenson. I wanted to do my own thing.

There is no such thing as a normal person. There is just you and me." - Willie Nelson

If you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.

You don't have to be a certain thing to be cool. If you're white, you don't have to act black or whatever. Just be you and know who you are.

You are creative, whoever you are. Respect your own creativity and respect the creativity and creative space of other people.

The enterprise of describing something in language that has never been described before is a very difficult thing to do. When you decide to do away with old cliches or old phraseologies, and to come up with a new way of saying something, it's extremely difficult.

You can't write with your head. I want you to write with your hand

Creativity is an inherent human quality of the highest order. When we create, we become more than the sum of our parts.

You have to follow your own voice. You have to be yourself when you write. In effect, you have to announce, 'This is me, this is what I stand for, this is what you get when you read me. I'm doing the best I can - buy me or not - but this is who I am as a writer.

The problem with all these fiercely individualistic girls was that they were all exactly the same.

At some point, I'd like to have an origina l idea. And I'd like to be fancied, or maybe loved even, but I'll wait and see.

It will help you recognize a big idea if you ask yourself five questions: 1 Did it make me gasp when I first saw it? 2 Do I wish I had thought of it myself? 3 Is it unique? 4 Does it fit the strategy to perfection? 5 Could it be used for 30 years? You

committees can criticize, but they cannot create.

In the modern world of business, it is useless to be a creative, original thinker unless you can also sell what you create.

Search all he parks in all your cities; you'll find no statues of committees.

It will help you recognize a big idea if you ask yourself five questions: 1 Did it make me gasp when I first saw it? 2 Do I wish I had thought of it myself? 3 Is it unique? 4 Does it fit the strategy to perfection? 5 Could it be used for 30 years?

You can do homework from now until doomsday, but you will never win fame and fortune unless you also invent big ideas.

The creative process requires more than reason. Most original thinking isn't even verbal. It requires 'a groping experimentation with ideas, governed by intuitive hunches and inspired by the unconscious.' The majority of business men are incapable of original thinking because they are unable to escape from the tyranny of reason. Their imaginations are blocked.

Develop your eccentricities while you are young. That way, when you get old, people won't think you're going gaga.