Quotes About Originality

When there is no room for individualism in ballparks, then there will be no room for individualism in life.

I think being individual in the show business is what gives you life and longevity.

I think you don't break new ground in anything in life if you are willing to just follow the rules.

Paul Simon is my absolute hero. He's one of a kind. He wrote his own ticket in life by being himself.

The only thing you will get from common sense, is a common life. Be uncommon and have uncommon sense.

There is a great gulf between the really creative person and normal people. The totally creative person does not have the rest of his life in proper proportion.

Sometimes I lie awake at night, and wonder if my life would be different if I had to do it over... Then a voice comes to me out of the dark that says, "boy, there's an original thought!

Mylife might be little and boring, but at least it's mine - not some assembly-line, secondhand, hand-me-down life.

If something doesn't creep into a drawing that you're not prepared for, you might as well not have drawn it.

No amount of skillful invention can replace the essential element of imagination.

Universal literacy was supposed to educate the common man to control his environment. Once he could read and write he would have a mind fit to rule. So ran the democratic doctrine. But instead of a mind, universal literacy has given him rubber stamps, rubber stamps inked with advertising slogans, with editorials, with published scientific data, with the trivialities of the tabloids and the platitudes of history, but quite innocent of original thought.

Creativity, after all, does not happen on schedule or on demand. It

Some people call this being a nonconformist, but that term misses the point. We don't choose not to conform. We don't even notice what the standard we're not conforming to is!

Original discoveries, to remind you, are what counts the most. Let me put that more strongly: they are all that counts. They are the silver and gold of science.

Original discoveries, to remind you, are what count the most. Let me put that more strongly: they are all that counts. They are the silver and gold of science.

What counts in science is the importance of the discovery. What matters in literature is the originality and power of the metaphor.

When subject matter is forced to fit into preconceived patterns, there can be no freshness of vision.

In the end nothing could be said of his work except that it was preposterous and true and totally unacceptable.

We are all born originals - why is it so many of us die copies?

Born Originals, how comes it to pass that we die Copies?

Changing the name, function, and location does not change the nature, originality, and reality.

Each Colour carries its Colouration Each Original reflects its Originality

One invents; whereas, another earns and benefits from that, not the inventor.

Stealing the ideas of others mirrors and certifies plagiarism.