Quotes About Originality

Definitely not a Gertrude.

If we do not put effort into creating our original thoughts, then ready-made pseudo-thoughts, trite words and phrases, come automatically to mind and carry us along with them, resulting in "thinking almost entirely without thoughts." (Steiner).

Difference for the sake of difference is as empty an achievement as slavishly following the commercial imperative. Write only what you believe.

Creativity is choice-making.

Anticipatory plagiarism occurs when someone steals your original idea and publishes it a hundred years before you were born.

If you do what everyone else does, you'll wind up having what everyone else has.

Las naturalezas creativas no son especulativas. Eso las distingue de los imitadores.

Be not another if thou canst be thyself.

You are certainly unique. Everyone is unique. Nobody has ever suffered quite like you before because nobody has ever been you before.

Wake up! Be yourself, not a bad copy of something else!

Hawkins sought out the freshest, most original musicians, and had little patience for those who would quibble over the difference between "modern" or "progressive," "swing" or "bebop." "I don't think about music as being new, or modern, or anything of the type," he mused. "Music doesn't go seasonable to me."44

it goes something like 'There are a lot of ways to be yourself.

My capacity for invention is flash hot stark, I thought. Sucker sunshade. Disembodied radar-reconnaissance. Not to mention Bitter Chocolate Death and Killer Zebras. Pity about the rest of me.

She was unambiguously herself.

The saddest thing is that this is often all we understand about ourselves: that so often, we live our neighbor's life, instead of our own.

There is a huge value placed in our world on doing what everyone else is doing and thinking as everyone else is thinking.

El sufrimiento aporta muchas recompensas, como la empatía, la originalidad, el don de gentes y la autenticidad.

Commit to being a highly unusual human being instead of one of those timid souls who behave like everyone else, living a sloppy life instead of a magnificent one, a derivative life instead of an original one.

If people don't laugh at you and your ideas at least once a week, you're not pushing the envelope.

Being different is really cool. And eccentricity is very hip.

And in my personal life, it's the same thing: I only eat the best food, though I don't eat a lot of it. I only read the most original and thoughtful books, spend my time in the most light-filled and inspiring of spaces and visit the most enchanting of places. And when it comes to relationships, I only surround myself with human beings who fuel my joy, stoke my peace and excite me to become a better man.

There will never be a better you than you

Be Yourself. Everyone else is taken.

Please, let go of your ego, please be you and no one else. You are so beautiful how you are