Quotes About Originality

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If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.

You all laugh at me because I'm different, I laugh at you because you're all the same.

The force of originality "that made Donne so potent an influence in the seventeenth century makes him now at once for us, without his being the less felt as of his period, contemporary—obviously a living poet in the most important sense." In "The Good-Morrow" Leavis said that

Always try in interviews to avoid the cliches about the problems of public life.

What's the use in being different when it's being different that's the same.

Life doesn't imitate art...it is art!

I don't have traceable literary models because I haven't had great literary influences in my life.

Mere exactitude, of which photography and moulage [life casting] are the lowest forms, does not inspire feelings.

You need to write on your own and produce your own life.

Bring individuality into things, do not just be an imitator. To imitate is to miss life.

If I'm going to be anything more than average, if anyone is going to remember me, then I need to go further, in art, in life, in everything!

Creativity is the process that gives life to a new product.

These powers of imagination and creativity are among the few things that set us apart from the rest of life on Earth. But they make all the difference.

Why spend your whole life trying to be somebody that you're not? It's so much more fun to be yourself **** what everybody says.

The only way forward in life is innovation.

People are not enjoying life because they're trying to be something or brand themselves.

How much more interesting life would be if only more people had the courage and skill to act themselves, instead of abjectly understudying some one else!

I felt my whole life was a facsimile of a life.

We must not just patch and tinker with life. We must keep renewing it. Embrace novelty and uniqueness.

Throughout my life, there are four people I've met who were truly original people. The other three were Groucho Marx, Jim Morrison and Pablo Picasso.

Somebody who's passionate about life and does their own thing.

You need a strong sense of 'otherness' to be able to create in your life.

Originality is genius. If you respect and care for it, it will take you on the ride of your life.