Quotes About Originality

We come into this world alone, unlike all who have gone before us...Nature never repeats herself, and the possibilities of one human soul will never be found in another.

The Bhagavad Gita--that ancient Indian Yogic text--says that it is better to live your own destiny imperfectly than to live an imitation of somebody else's life with perfection.

We have, all of us, invented things that others have beat us to: walking upright, a certain sort of sandwich involving avocado and an onion roll, a minty sweet cocktail, ourselves, romantic love, human life.

It bothered Veblen's mother that most people were lazy and had given up original thought a long time ago, stealing stale phrases from the media like magpies.

Then, when those amateur experts share their advice, you can smile, say "Oh, really?" and then go about your business, with quiet confidence, in your own way.

So—you're a writer. You're an artist.

Don't try to be different. Just be good. To be good is different enough.

Do not shun this maxim because it is common-place. On the contrary, take the closest heed of what observant men, who would probably like to show originality, are yet constrained to repeat. Therein lies the marrow of the wisdom of the world.

The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.

Creativity is the defeat of habit by originality.

The more original a discovery, the more obvious it seems afterwards.

If Roberts had been a poet or a painter or a musician; we might have had a masterpiece. As he was neither: we had a monster

He could think nothing and do nothing after the common fashion of the world; even when he "went wrong," he did so in a highly unusual and eccentric manner.

We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves in order to be like other people.

So the problem is not so much to see what nobody has yet seen, as to think what nobody has yet thought concerning that which everybody sees.

En cuestiones de arte, el trabajo original del yo tiene más importancia social que la filantropía.

Qué italiano es eso, ¿no le parece?… Hacer cosas que otros nunca harían porque son incapaces de imaginarlas.

Qué italiano es eso, ¿no le parece?… Hacer cosas que otros nunca harían porque son incapaces de imaginarlas. Me

I think new writers are too worried that it has all been said before. Sure it has, but not by you.

whatever it is, stay how you are

Ashton Morris

Sometimes I pretend to be normal. But it gets boring ,so I go back to being me.

The essence of success is that it is never necessary to think of a new idea oneself. It is far better to wait until somebody else does it, and then to copy him in every detail, except his mistakes.