Quotes About Originality

Life is not just eating, drinking, television and cinema...The human mind must be creative, must be self-generating ; it cannot depend on just gadgets to amuse itself.

Tis' better to live your own life imperfectly than to imitate someone else's perfectly.

Go boldly and honestly through the world. Learn to love the fact that there is nobody else quite like you.

A joyful life is an individual creation that cannot be copied from a recipe.

Perhaps a copy could also be superior to the original, create a new reality by avoiding old mistakes.

Jeffrey S. Young

I am who I am and that's it!

There will never be anyone exactly like you. You were given special gifts and talents to share with the world, and even though everybody has special gifts and talents, nobody will use theirs quite the same way you do.

Wanting to be someone else is a waste of the person you are.     ââ'¬â€Kurt Cobain; you know who this one is, right? When

Wanting to be someone else is a waste of the person you are.     ââ'¬â€Kurt Cobain;

Well, I am nothing like perfection." "You're better. You're you.

Who said you had to fill his shoes?" said Karen. "Wear your own shoes. They're bound to fit better. Walk your own path your own way and you'll be more likely to get to where you need to be".

I'm talkin' about you. Stop pretending you're normal. You're insane. Make that work for you.

and the question is, which one is really "you

There is nothing original about human behavior.

We've lost the ability to make things up. We've farmed out that job to the entertainment industry, and we sit around and drool on ourselves while they do it for us.

We aren't here on earth in order to bend over backwards to resemble everyone else. We're here to be ourselves, in all our gnarly brilliance.

I've always been different, but to me different is normal. i decide on a version of the truth.

She is oxygen, carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, calcium, and phosphorus. The same elements that are inside the rest of us, but I can't help thinking she's more that that and she's got other elements going on that on one's ever heard of, ones that make her stand apart from everybody else.

I mean, I know but I don't. I've always been different, but to me different is normal.

Who cares for Algebra? Who delights in solving math? I only want to live my life Along the creative path.

I've always been different, but to me different is normal.

He did look at his photos and decided he didn't like any of them: all that black and white, all that same old stuff, characters trying to be characters. He said, Are you trying to be a character?

What was Art, after all, if not simply giving out what you have inside you? ... Wasn't a bunch of carrots, yes, a bunch of carrots, studied directly and painted simply, personally, as you see it yourself, as good as any of the run-of-the-mill, made-to-measure Ecole des Beaux-Arts stuff, painted with tobacco juice? The day was not far off when one solitary, original carrot might be pregnant with revolution! (35)