Quotes About Originality

Try not to get caught up in the echo chamber. That is probably the toughest thing when you are trying to break out and do something original.

You're not the only person who looks for the best choice. Everyone does. As a result, the rewards for being first are enormous. It's not a linear scale. It's not a matter of getting a little more after giving a little more. It's a curve, and a steep one.

We need original thinkers, provocateurs, and people who care. We need marketers who can lead, salespeople able to risk making a human connection, passionate change makers willing to be shunned if it is necessary for them to make a point. Every organization needs a linchpin, the one person who can bring it together and make a difference. Some organizations haven't realized this yet, or haven't articulated it, but we need artists.

Everyone who creates feels resistance, everyone that is seriously involved in inventing original work feels the fear, that's not the question. The question is where do you put the fear.

The relentless act of invention and innovation and initiative is the best marketing asset.

Si encarga a alguien en su organización que cree una nueva Vaca Púrpura, ¡déjelo tranquilo! No use críticas internas ni pruebas de funcionalidad para comprobar si el nuevo producto es tan bueno como el que ya tiene. En lugar de eso, elija al inconformista adecuado y apártese del camino.

La razón por la que cuesta tanto seguir al líder es ésta: el líder es el líder porque hizo algo extraordinario. Y esa cosa extraordinaria ya está hecha. Ya no tiene nada de extraordinaria cuando la hacen los demás.

the reason that art (writing, engaging, leading, all of it) is valuable is precisely why I can't tell you how to do it. If there were a map, there'd be no art, because art is the act of navigating without a map. Don't you hate that? I love that there's no map.

In a battle between two ideas, the best one doesn't necessarily win. No, the idea that wins is the one with the most fearless heretic behind it.

Artists are people with a genius for finding a new answer, a new connection, or a new way of getting things done. That would be you.

The words brilliant, radical, original were more often than not the descriptors applied to Scholar Kiladi's work. There was of course a leavening of popinjay, recluse, and dangerous madman from his detractors, but those served more to relieve than alarm her. A scholar who did not make collegial enemies was a scholar who was not exercising his intellect to its fullest extent.

But Sissy had a way of bringing out the fun side of anybody if she'd a mind to. To quote Janie Mae, Sissy came out of my womb with her middle finger raised.

I'm quite aware of my differences. I wouldn't classify them as weird

Don't live up to your stereotypes.

I thought maybe if you wore different clothes at school,' Paul said, 'maybe you could start a trend. You'd be original.' 'Oh, my God,' she said. 'It's high school, Dad. People get beat up for being original.

The personality is defined by its inconsistencies, not its consistencies. It's what makes us unique and who we are.

One's life is peculiar to one's own when one has invented it.

I don't do coupons or Reeboks. Life is too short to half-step.

If you can make something genuine, then the ground is fertile for introducing something new. And that happened a few times in my life where I could sow the seeds and see something grow out of it.

It is the fate of every great achievement to be pounced upon by pedants and imitators who drain it of life and turn it into an orthodoxy which stifles all stirrings of originality.

A lot of student films in art shows are samey. It's a look at the life of someone making these boring films.

Life is composed of different inventions.

Believe me, nothing is more beautiful than to carry out crazy ideas. I'd like my whole life to be one single crazy idea.

If 'Life in Marvelous Times' can't get on the radio, then I don't need to be on the radio.