Quotes About Originality

The Bible makes it clear that every time that there is a story of faith, it is completely original. God's creative genius is endless.

Improvisation is the ability to create something very spiritual, something of one's own.

To be alive, it seemed to me, as I stood there in all kinds of sorrow, was to be both original and reflection, and to be dead was to be split off, to be reflection alone.

To express yourself in a creative way you don't need structure you need an empty mind.

The worst thing I can be is the same as everybody else. I hate that.

I am not interested in rules or conventions. Photography is not a sport.

You are what you are.

I have never tried to compare myself to anyone else.

I know it sounds selfish, wanting to do something no one else has done. But that's what you're out here for - to separate yourself from everyone else.

I don't know. I never smoked AstroTurf.

I have never believed in comparisons, whether they are about different eras, players or coaches.

The woman who follows the crowd will usually go no further than the crowd. The woman who walks alone is likely to find herself in places no one has ever been before.

If at first the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it.

Excellence is doing a common thing in an uncommon way.

It gives me great pleasure indeed to see the stubbornness of an incorrigible nonconformist warmly acclaimed.

The person who follows the crowd will usually go no further than the crowd. The person who walks alone is likely to find himself in places no one has ever seen before.

For an idea that does not first seem insane, there is no hope.

If someone can enjoy marching to music in rank and file, I can feel only contempt for him; he has received his large brain by mistake, a spinal cord would have been enough.

It is important to foster individuality, for only the individual can produce the new ideas.

True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist.

Imagination is everything

In a world where you can be anything, be yourself.

The best that Gauss has given us was likewise an exclusive production. If he had not created his geometry of surfaces, which served Riemann as a basis, it is scarcely conceivable that anyone else would have discovered it. I do not hesitate to confess that to a certain extent a similar pleasure may be found by absorbing ourselves in questions of pure geometry.

Jeder intelligente Narr kann Dinge größer und komplexer machen. Es braucht ein Stück Genialität – und jede Menge Mut -, sich in die entgegengesetzte Richtung zu bewegen.