Quotes About Originality

I don't like it when you look too styled and wear one designer from head to toe.

We never want to toe the line.

There's a million new people in the studio every day creating new stuff so I really had to be on my toes with this one so I could get it out before somebody else could.

I'm a fan of hip-hop as well. I like everybody who keeps the game on their toes and keep it pushing.

Fantasy has had some problems with being too repetitive, in my opinion. I try to read what other people are doing - and say, 'How can I add to this rather than just recycle it? How can I stand on Tolkien's shoulders rather than stand tied to his kneecaps?'

I'm the first to admit that I can't be as good as Tolkien, and a movie can never be as good as Tolkien.

There have been none like us before. And there will be none afterwards. Be careful what you write.

Trying to force creativity is never good.

He never liked things that weren't his idea first.

Being yourself is the one thing every person should excel at.

Conformity is the inspiration of much second-rate virtue.

Art is not supposed to repeat what you already know. It is supposed to ask questions.

It is sometimes necessary to repeat what we all know. All mapmakers should place the Mississippi in the same location, and avoid originality.

There's no such thing as good ideas and bad ideas. There are only your own ideas and other people's. If you want someone to like your idea, tell him he said it first last week and you just remembered it.

Howard H. Aiken, a famous inventor, said, "Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats."[

an idea is a combination of other ideas.

Don' t focus on NEW - focus on authent ic. Being or iginal isn' t being new - i t 's being you.

If you don't quote yourself, nobody else will. And you can quote me on that.

If you just write the kinds of stories you think others will want to read, you'll be competing with cartoonists who are far more enthusiastic for that kind of comic than you are, and they'll kick your ass every time.

You must be true to yourself—however, if you have a dozen editors tell you that something is a cliché, trite, or overdone, it probably is, and you need to step back and take a look at your work.

Software is easy to make, except when you want it to do something new. And then, of course, there is a corollary: The only software that's worth making is software that does something new.

Making an album should be an honest experience. It shouldn't be about trying to gauge where popular music is today it should be about artistic expression and putting down what you want to put down.

I don't ever want to be a person that I'm not. A lot of girls fall into the trap where they are trying to impress other people, and that's the time when they lose themselves.

Things you think you're saying for the first time ever, have been said better before by Shakespeare, though they may need saying again.