Quotes About Originality

Classes will dull your mind, destroy the potential for authentic creativity.

Each of us is an artist of our days; the greater our integrity and awareness, the more original and creative our time will become.

Uniqueness Leads To Great Success Some men see things as they are and say 'why?' I dream things that never were, and say, 'why not?' --George Bernard Shaw English Dramatist (1856-1950)

Be Different Be unique. Be different. Stop following the crowd. Listen for the sound of that distant drum. The successful person and the average person approach life differently. The average person, it seems to me, likes to take the easy way out. It's almost as if the average person wants to get through work just to rush home to do very little, or nothing at all. Television

I just want to hear something I haven't heard before

Just about every sentence we say or hear is a recombination of existing words appearing in that exact configuration for the very first time.

There's nothing wrong with making a fake that looks like a Whiteley, feels like a Whiteley, but in fact isn't a Whiteley."

every wave is a masterpiece of originality. It will ever be so. Go and see." —Willard Bascomb, Waves and Beaches

It is very important to lead the field and innovate in game design.

Hamlet could not possibly have been written by Hamlet.

If you want me to treat your ideas with more respect, get some better ideas.

Assimilate all you can from tradition and then say things in your own way.

Originality is the one thing unoriginal minds cannot feel the use of.

In this age, the man who dares to think for himself and to act independently does a service to his race

Persons of genius are, ex vi termini, more individual than any other people - less capable, consequently, of fitting themselves, without hurtful compression, into any of the small number of moulds which society provides in order to save its members the trouble of forming their character.

Genius can only breathe freely in an atmosphere of freedom. Persons of genius are, ex vi termini,5 more individual than any other people—less capable, consequently, of fitting themselves, without hurtful compression, into any of the small number of moulds which society provides in order to save its members the trouble of forming their own character.

All good things which exist are the fruits of originality.

People think genius a fine thing if it enables a man to write an exciting poem, or paint a picture. But in its true sense, that of originality in thought and action, though no one says that it is not a thing to be admired, nearly all, at heart, think that they can do very well without it.

He who lets the world, or his own portion of it, choose his plan of life for him has no need of any other faculty than the ape-like one of imitation.

Free men and women are often very eccentric.

Individuality, family, and community are, by definition, expressions of singular organization, never of "one-right-way" thinking on the grand scale. Children and families need some relief from government surveillance and intimidation if original expressions belonging to THEM are to develop. Without these freedom has no meaning.

The artist brings something into the world that didn't exist before, and he does it without destroying something else.

That which has been is that which will be, and that which has been done is that which will be done. So there is nothing new under the sun. Is there anything of which one might say, "See this, it is new"? Already it has existed for ages which were before us.…" The

My idea of an interesting person is someone who is quite proud of their seemingly abnormal life and turns their disadvantage into a career.