Quotes About Originality

all too often, a successful new business model becomes the business model for companies not creative enough to invent their own. [2002] p.46

To discover the future it is not necessary to be a seer, but it is absolutely vital to be unorthodox.

FIGURE 2-1 US employment in occupations based on importance of originality to job performance

The difference between being smart and being really smart is looking at things in a way no one would ever expect.

As every so-called creative spirit soon learns, the rest of the world doesn't particularly give a damn.

L'imagination est une force première. Elle doit naître dans la solitude de l'être imaginant.

Moi, je ne m'exprime jamais comme les autres !... Je ne fais rien comme les autres!... Mais j'en suis bien fatigué !... bien fatigué !...

My rule is never save bits. They get in the way, and you don't think of anything new. Put 'em in. Make a big mess.

For a few minutes it didn't matter what anyone thought of me. I have created something that didn't exist the day before, from a place that didn't belong to anyone but me.

It is specially characteristic of the German that the more servile he on the one hand is, the more uncontrolled is he on the other; restraint and want of restraint—originality, is the angel of darkness that buffets us.

If everyone is thinking alike, someone isn't thinking.

a man of great common sense and good taste, meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.

Oh, well, if you want original conversations, you'd better go and talk to yourself.

I try to follow his example, not to imitate him.

I owe all my originality, such as it is, to my determination not to be a literary man. Instead of belonging to a literary club I belong to a municipal council. Instead of drinking and discussing authors and reviews, I sit on committees with capable practical greengrocers and bootmakers... Keep away from books and from men who get their ideas from books, and your own books will always be fresh.

Literature is too full of 'acknowledgments' and squabbles about originality...

The rest of the story need not be shown in action, and indeed, would hardly need telling if our imaginations were not so enfeebled by their lazy dependence on the ready-makes and reach-me-downs of the ragshop in which Romance keeps its stock of "happy endings" to misfit all stories.

Spisovate? je ?lovek, ktorému nesta?ia knihy tých druhých.

Think off center.

You can take and nail two sticks together like they've never been nailed together before and some fool will buy it.

One couldn't carry on life comfortably without a little blindness to the fact that everything has been said better than we can put it ourselves.

You are a poem- and that is to be the best part of a poet- what makes up the poet's consciousness in his best moods, said Will, showing such originality as we all share with the morning and the spring-time and other endless renewals.

Nearly all men and women are poetical, to some extent, but very few can be called poets. There are great poets, small poets, and men and women who make verses. But all are not poets, nor even good versifiers. Poetasters are plentiful, but real poets are rare. Education can not make a poet, though it may polish and develop one.

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