Quotes About Originality

Genius is independent of situation.

Destroying something, any idiot can do. Creating needs intelligence.

Almost all rich veins of original and striking speculation have been opened by systematic half-thinkers.

Try to resist copying a blueprint from another person's ministry.

The biggest mistake you can ever make it to compare yourself to others. - Gideon

Romper con el pasado es de ignorantes —decía—. No se puede anteponer la originalidad a la belleza.

Don't ask me for my resume -it's a piece of paper that won't help you or your business. Instead, ask me for unique ideas - and with that, I will give you plenty." ~ Jaxi West

You can never attain full awareness following the actions of the majority.

Ideas arise independently from the same mysterious source.

Really we create nothing. We merely plagiarize nature.

Postmodernity is said to be a culture of fragmentary sensations, eclectic nostalgia, disposable simulacra, and promiscuous superficiality, in which the traditionally valued qualities of depth, coherence, meaning, originality, and authenticity are evacuated or dissolved amid the random swirl of empty signals.

Listen carefully to first criticisms made of your work. Note just what it is about your work that critics don't like — then cultivate it. That's the only part of your work that's individual and worth keeping.

Be yourself. The world worships the original.

Listen carefully to first criticisms made of your work. Note just what it is about your work that critics don't like - then cultivate it. That's the only part of your work that's individual and worth keeping.

A true poet does not bother to be poetical. Nor does a nursery gardener scent his roses.

L'art ne vient pas coucher dans les lits qu'on a faits pour lui ; il se sauve aussitôt qu'on prononce son nom »

Good writers borrow, great writers steal, Jake was thinking.

I know the feelings of my heart, and I know men. I am not made like any of those I have seen; I venture to believe that I am not made like any of those who are in existence. If I am not better, at least I am different. Whether Nature has acted rightly or wrongly in destroying the mould in which she cast me, can only be decided after I have been read.

It is not possible to design always the same. How to be different in each different place - that is the most important work and duty of the architect to find out.

The principle goal of education in the schools should be creating men and women who are capable of doing new things, not simply repeating what other generations have done.

The principle goal of education is to create men who are capable of doing new things, not simply of repeating what other generations have done - men who are creative, inventive and discoverers.

The principle goal of education in the schools should be creating men and women who are capable of doing new things, not simply repeating what other generations have done; men and women who are creative, inventive and discoverers, who can be critical and verify, and not accept, everything they are offered.

She didn't look like Louise. She didn't look much like anybody except herself.

Acceptance of prevailing standards often means we have no standards of our own.