Quotes About Originality

My father replaced the handle and I replaced the head,' he said. 'But otherwise, it's completely original.

It seems whenever someone has a good idea like this, other people simply can't wait to rob them.

Very impressive. Where did you learn that?" Made it up just now.

I hate the man who builds his nameOn ruins of another's fame.

we are unique individuals with unique experiences

You are so busy being YOU that you have no idea how utterly unprecedented you are.

That's why I like you. Do you realize how rare it is to come across a hot girl who creates a adjectival version of the word pedophile? You are so busy being you that you have no idea how utterly unprecedented you are.

In life, finding a voice is speaking and living the truth. Each of you is an original. Each of you has a distinctive voice. When you find it, your story will be told. You will be heard.

My fear now is of cliche, of complacency, of not being able to feel authenticity in myself and those around me.

Be yourself. Above all, let who you are, what you are, what you believe, shine through every sentence you write, every piece you finish.

Es que la gente parece que le tiene miedo a los estereotipos, a los lugares comunes...

He was a man who longed to do more with his life, to investigate creativity and originality, but was afraid of the disruption this indulgence might bring to a carefully regimented life.

vemödalen n. the fear that originality is no longer possible.

How many of your snapshots could easily be replaced by a thousand identical others? Is there any value left in taking yet another photo of the moon, or the Taj Mahal, or the Eiffel Tower? Is a photograph just a kind of souvenir to prove you've been someplace, like a prefabricated piece of furniture that you happened to have assembled yourself?

It's weird not to be weird.

I'm not going to change the way I look or the way I feel to conform to anything. I've always been a freak. So I've been a freak all my life and I have to live with that, you know. I'm one of those people.

A Ming vase can be well-designed and well-made and is beautiful for that reason alone. I don't think this can be true for photography. Unless there is something a little incomplete and a little strange, it will simply look like a copy of something pretty. We won't take an interest in it.

Idiosyncratic types are sustained by the rich inner worlds of their Selves; they may or may not be successful by other people's standards or fit comfortably into the social order, but no matter what others say or convention dictates, they continue to march to their own drummer.

A person should be wise enough to come up with their own quotes

You were born an original, don't die a copy

I've never done anything because I thought it would look cool.

I think being different, going against the grain of society is the greatest thing in the world.

And then I had my greatest stroke of genius since that ham sandwich with pickles that time.

But they made me realize more than I ever had the rarity of true originality, and also the sort of alienation it might involve.