Quotes About Originality

Dare to do something different. Don't go with the status quo. Just bring passion and obsession together to build a masterpiece

Time for Original Thinking, Long Term Approach, Innovation, Building Great Products, Large Scales & Solving Challenging Problems. Enough of Myopic/Weak Start-Ups in India.

every person who writes poems reinvents poetry. Don

Blake, the English painter, poet and printmaker, was clearly a man stuck in the P section of potential careers. Now he is considered a great artist, but in his lifetime he was largely ignored or thought to be mad. I suspect it was because he was a gloriously original thinker, and no one ever really likes that.

I was never interested in joining, like, children's theater or anything like that. I had contempt for that kind of stuff. I needed to be the solo show. I needed it to be the Sandy Show.

I've never had any need for somebody to be my role model. I've been my own role model.

I mean, you can talk about anything that's been talked about a million times, but if it's your experience and your point of view, you can always bring something new to it.

Cookie cutter answers don't yield results. Be the true expression of yourself.

The word 'Spanx' was funny. It made people laugh. No one ever forgot it.

Don't be intimidated by what you don't know. That can be your greatest strength and ensure that you do things differently from everyone else.

I've always leaned toward a feminine, funky style, even in business settings. I used to paint my nails blue in 1993, before it was mainstream.

But you can't make someone be something they're not.

Be Yourself Not What The World Wants You To Be

I've always been attracted to stories about rebels - things that are unusual and sometimes dangerous.

Writers have a well-deserved reputation for being eccentric. Everything you've heard is true.

I had never done anything yet that was conventional – why should the love of my life be any different?

Every time a man puts a new idea across, he faces a dozen men who thought of it before he did. But they only thought of it.

The interesting thing about doing a play is to find a way to make it fresh and do it as though you were doing it for the first time.

People who take the time to be alone usually have depth, originality, and quiet reserve.

Schools stifle family originality by appropriating the critical time needed for any sound idea of family to develop - then they blame the family for its failure to be a family.

I was meticulously copying other art and then I realized I could just use a camera and put my time into an idea instead.

By the time Talking Heads were starting, my feeling was to throw out everything and start from scratch onstage; strip it down to as close to zero as you can get and then you can make it yours.

Timing is everything. That's a cliche. Now. If I'd said that a long time ago, I'd have been original.

I don't listen to music for fun. I ain't got enough time for fun! I'm always busy writing my own music. I don't try to compete or see what other people are doing.