Quotes About Originality

How far my efforts agree with those of other philosophers I will not decide. Indeed what I have here written makes no claim to novelty in points of detail; and therefore I give no sources, because it is indifferent to me whether what I have thought has already been thought before me by another.

I don't believe I have ever invented a line of thinking, I have always taken one over from someone else. I have simply straightaway seized on it with enthusiasm for my work of clarification. That is how Boltzmann, Hertz, Schopenhauer, Frege, Russell, Kraus, Loos, Weininger, Spengler, Sraffa have influenced me.

Lovely was my compliment. Could you not come up with your own? Lord Paen said compliment her, he did not say we had to be creative about it, the second man pointed out with a shrug

Saí triste. Procurava um homem original e achei um maluco. Os de juízo são todos copiados uns dos outros. Consta-me até que aquele mesmo homem de Plutarco, freguês do Carceller, curado por um hábil médico, está agora tão comum como os outros. Acabou a originalidade com a maluquice.

I'm different,and I like being different.Calvin's voice was unnaturally loud. Maybe I don't like being different,Meg said.but I don't want to be like everybody else,either.

There's nothing the matter with his mind. He just does things in his own way and in his own time.

Creativity is a way of living life, no matter what our vocation, or how we earn our living. Creativity is not limited to the arts...

Maybe I don't like being different, Meg said. but I don't want to be like everybody else, either.

Ridicule is a terrible witherer of the flower of the imagination. It binds us where we should be free.

Majah, minah, and mediocah.

Someone said, 'It's all been done before.' Yes, I agreed, but we all have to say it in our own voice.

When have you been most you, the very most you?

It's all been said better before. If I thought I had to say it better than anybody else, I'd never start. Better or worse is immaterial. The thing is that it has to be said; by me; ontologically. We each have to say it, to say it our own way. Not of our own will, but as it comes out through us. Good or bad, great or little: that isn't what human creation is about. It is that we have to try; to put it down in pigment, or words, or musical notations, or we die.

Madness, genius, originality - it's all the same thing; it's a breaking of our normal value structure and the substitution of another one.

The ethics of plagiarism have turned into the narcissism of small differences: because journalism cannot own up to its heavily derivative nature, it must enforce originality on the level of the sentence.

If you are going to do something truly innovative, you have to be someone who does not value social approval. You can't need social approval to go forward.

Words belong to the person who wrote them

I never had any great desire to be well-known or to sell a lot of books. … Maybe that's paradoxically one of the reasons why I've done well. People sense that I'm doing things out of pure enjoyment. I'm not pandering to an audience or following a formula. I'm just writing about cool stuff that interests me, and people respond to that.

There's a bunch of songs that I call B-sides on the record that you could argue could maybe have some potential commercial success with another artist, but for me, they just felt really whack.

Having a me-too brand is a death sentence.

Become your own success story, not someone else's.

We need to awaken the intellectual maverick within ourselves

There is no secret ingredient

I am unique...I play by a different set of rules I am not intimidated by anything.