Quotes About Originality

True literature can exist only where it is created, not by diligent and trustworthy functionaries, but by madmen, hermits, heretics, dreamers, rebels, and skeptics.

Stripped of audience, originality would be much less at ease with itself.

If you are only worried about not making a mistake then you will communicate nothing

If you can't imitate him, don't copy him.

Normal is a myth.

If the concept of the hero is a physical one, then, just as Alexander the Great acquired heroic stature by modeling himself on Achilles, the conditions necessary for becoming a hero must be both a ban on originality and a true faithfulness to a classical model; unlike the words of a genius, the words of a hero must be selected as the most impressive and noble from among ready-made concepts.

Young people get the foolish idea that what is new for them must be new for everybody else too. No matter how unconventional they get, they're just repeating what others before them have done.

don't confuse uniqueness with superiority.

Since AlphaZero had learned nothing from any human, many of its winning moves and strategies seemed unconventional to the human eye. They may well be considered creative, if not downright genius.

I prefer to shock rather than to bore through repetition.

Doesn't it look as though a genius is actually a person who has figured out a different way to think?

I prefer being wrong in my own way to being right in someone else's.

All attempts to create something admirable are the weapons of evil. You may think you are practising benevolence and righteousness, but in effect you will be creating a kind of artificiality. Where a model exists, copies will be made of it; where success has been gained, boasting follows; where debate exists, there will be outbreaks of hostility.

Those who seek to satisfy the mind of man by hampering it with ceremonies and music and affecting charity and devotion have lost their original nature

None of my friends know how to play imagining games the way you do," Melanie said. "Some of them can do it a little bit but they mostly don't have any very good ideas. And a lot of them only like ball games or other things that are already made up. But I like imagining games better than anything.

Be yourself to find the uniqueness of the universe.

To be a success, be yourself.

One piece of advice I think they should ignore is the value of being a "people person." No one cares if you are a people person. Have a point of view, and share it meaningfully, thoughtfully, and with conviction.

we do not have to conform to the way our life has been written for us, especially by those who are less imaginative than ourselves.

When you're true to who you are, amazing things happen.

the moment you follow someone else, you cease to be your own leader.

You're unusual. That's better than popular if you have some courage.

What we call originality is no more than ignorance of antecedents.

Originality and creativity do not result from calculated effort, but from the natural state of consciousness—an open mind at play.