Quotes About Originality

La vie est trop courte pour que nous en perdions une part précieuse à nous contrefaire.

Vale más partir del cliché que llegar a él.

Some people say, 'Save yourself and you save your ways.' I say, 'Be yourself and you save your soul.

But why would a man in his right mind memorize another man's words instead of speaking his own? That's what a player does. Maria shrugged. He pretends to be someone he's not.

am i insane asked alice yes, but all the best people are replied her father

Tess was my first experience of a woman who had inhabited her weirdness, moved into the areas of herself that made her distinct from those around her, and learned how to display them proudly.

If my mind is crowded with ideas or thoughts or plans or other people's creations there is less room for my own.

The challenge for me is not to be a follower of Something but to embody it;

Zemlinsky, who was to be on the panel of judges, played through the first few for Schoenberg and, finding them "wonderful and truly original," agreed with him that, regrettably, "precisely on that account they would have little chance of winning the prize." Schoenberg's response was not to abandon the project but to expand it.

MAD, adj. Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence; not conforming to standards of thought, speech and action derived by the conformants from study of themselves; at odds with the majority; in short, unusual. It is noteworthy that persons are pronounced mad by officials destitute of evidence that themselves are sane.

Don't strive to be a leader in your category. Create a different category, and be the only one in it.

Don't copy. Create.

Cuántas veces en la historia personas tachadas de herejes e insensatas que sufrieron el menosprecio de los demás acabaron convirtiéndose en genios, santos o maestros? ¿Te atreves a ser original?

Lady Gaga or Amanda Palmer or something. Some cute lunatic with a piano.

In looking back on the novel, I can see a lot of things I would do differently now, but the truth of the matter is, rewriting old work does little more than dress it in new clothes, and sometimes you don't want that. You don't want to see some old guy out there in a speedo. Just doesn't look right. Also, something written with the energy of the moment and in its time makes it different than when you come back and coldly remodel it. It looses its original charm if it ever had any.

The invention of IQ did a great disservice to creativity in education. ... Individuality, personality, originality, are too precious to be meddled with by amateur psychiatrists whose patterns for a 'wholesome personality' are inevitably their own.

But if you think you aren't creative that's cool, too. I think being around people who aren't creative is kind of refreshing and nice.

Be the one to stand out in the crowd.

Be who God created you to be. You are an original. You have something to offer the world that nobody else has.

After all God doesn't want you to be an imitation of someone else. You should be the original you were created to be. There is an anointing on your life, an empowerment. Not to be somebody else, but to be you. If you let people squeeze you into their molds and you bow down to their pressure to try to please your critics, it not only takes away your uniqueness, but it also lessens the favor on your life.

The good news is, nobody can be a better you than you.

Posterity weaves no garlands for imitators.

Personality is everything in art and poetry.

Individuality of expression is the beginning and end of all art.