Quotes About Originality

You are not required to perform like them, you are required to perform like you.

See what no one else can see.Be what no one else can be.Do what no one else can do.

Inception. Invention. Innovation.

Every invention began as an imagination.

Cookie cutters are for baking, not branding.

Everyone is born with an instinct of success, and ability to make it, but only the ones who think out of the box succeed.

The key to success for Sony, and to everything in business, science and technology for that matter, is never to follow the others.

If you do what everyone else does, you will get what everyone else gets.

God hasn't called you to walk in someone else's shoes (purpose). He wants you to walk in the shoes that fit you, for which He made you. You aren't going to succeed walking in another woman's shoes.

When you stop comparing yourself with others, you begin respecting your own uniqueness.

You can follow others into mediocrity, or you can create something that will be remembered

Those who distinguish themselves in what they do and become disinct always score distinction. Don't follow the crowd. Distinguish yourself with a special commitment and you will excel.

If you are saying the same thing as everyone else, then why would and why should anyone think you are different from everyone else?

Life's too short to live someone else's

Creativity is especially expressed in the ability to make connections, to make associations, to turn things around and express them in a new way.

I'm a sworn enemy of convention. I despite the conventional in anything, even the arts. I paint canvasses on the floor and drove one art teacher out of his mind. But that's just the way I paint best.

Creativity: Take the obvious, add a cupful of brains, a generous pinch of imagination, a bucketful of courage and daring, stir well and bring to a boil.

The bad teacher imposes his ideas and his methods on his pupils, and such originality as they may have is lost in the second-rate art of imitation.

To think is to differ.

Don't teach necessarily what others teachers are teaching. Find what it is that you have to offer and teach that.

The art, the new, the ability to connect the dots and to make an impact - sooner or later, that can only come from one who creates, not from a teacher and not from a book.

A painter may be an abandoned mimic; at school he copies his teachers, which is only right, but he copies in turn every artist in town, which is not. He may do you that honour.

In the scientific community you find competent teachers and original researchers, just as in the musical community you find many good performers but very few good composers.

With all these great (guitar teachers) around here, don't cop their licks, COP THEIR ATTITUDE.