Quotes About Originality

You are a unique human who has never been seen or known on earth before. And your uniqueness will never be seen or known again. Yes, as a matter of fact, your fingerprint is peculiar, your acumen is outstanding, your reasoning is spectacular, your grasp is uncommon. In other words, everything about you is unprecedented. Thus, dare to be unique and remain uniqiue in all you do. -Emeasoba George

You are absolutely unique. Yes! so, always show your true colour to all and sundry. Besides, don't be a copycat, I mean, strive to be and remain original in all you do including your thoughts, writings, publications, speeches and actions.

You are one of a kind i.e. you're absolutely unique. So, dare to be/remain unique in whatever you are doing presently and whatever you will do subsequently.

You are one-off i.e. you are a unique/remarkable person. Yes! that's just who you are. Thus, you've got to think, speak, act and live uniquely/remarkably.

You shouldn't live and long to be like someone else. Yes, because God made you to be you and never to long to be like someone else. And believe you me, no one can be like you. And you can't be like anybody out there. So, be you and remain you for life in anything you are doing presently and whatever you will do subsequently.

You've got to stop mingling with the crowd. For, you were born and meant to stand out and never to mingle with the crowd. So what? dare to stand out and then make a difference. -Emeasoba George

We say: he has no talent, only tone. But tone is precisely what cannot be invented—we're born with it. Tone is an inherited grace, the privilege some of us have of making our organic pulsations felt—tone is more than talent, it is its essence.

Each opinion, each view is necessarily partial, truncated, inadequate. In philosophy and in anything, originality comes down to incomplete definitions.

Existing is plagiarism.

Seduzidos pelo demônio do Inédito, esquecemos rápido demais que somos os epígonos do primeiro pitecantropo que se pôs a refletir.

Beware of thinkers whose minds function only when they are fueled by a quotation

Existir es un plagio

Man will not last. Ambushed by exhaustion, he will have to pay for his too-original career. For it would be inconceivable and contra naturam that he drag on much longer and come to a good end. This prospect is depressing, hence likely.

A exista e un plagiat.

The philosophers' originality comes down to inverting terms. Since there are only three or four attitudes by which to confront the world – and about as many ways of dying – the nuances which multiply and diversify them derive from no more than the choice of words, bereft of any metaphysical range. We are engulfed in a pleonastic universe, in which the questions and answers amount to the same thing.

Panic in the face of anything—of presence, of the void, of anything. Original panic.

I find it hard to understand your ambition to make a name for yourself in an age when the epigone is de rigueur.

Style isn't what you have---it's what you do with what you have.

Creativity is taking a simple thing and bringing it to life.

After all, the original way of writing books may turn out to be the best. The first author, it is plain, could not have taken anything from books, since there were no books for him to copy from; he looked at things for himself.

Donot imitate others because it damages your personality.

Begin with another's to end with your own.

The provinces are provinces; they are only ridiculous when they mimic Paris.

What is Art, monsieur, but Nature concentrated?