Quotes About Originality

Either you repeat the same conventional doctrines everybody is saying, or else you say something true, and it will sound like it's from Neptune.

To copy the truth can be a good thing, but to invent the truth is better, much better.

Be a true Heart, not a follower.

Truth is a point of view, but authenticity can't be faked.

A character to me can't be contrived. I don't like to contrive characters. They have to have an element of truth.

Do we dress with dignity, with a reflection of beauty? The entire world is wearing blue jeans and a black tee shirt. A banal sameness has covered us like wings of a black bird. Do we dress as if we were to meet Mevlana Jalauddin? Is our house clean, prepared for the possibility of a visit from Mevlana?

I don't think I could ever do a network sitcom because the humor is often based on some trite circumstance. I don't want to be a part of a show where it's mostly about coming up with the jokes.

When a woman is secure with herself, she isn't afraid to define herself and defy public opinion. She has her own look. Her own style. Her own charisma. Her own brand of charm. A man wants something he doesn't see every day. Not in terms of a redhead versus a blonde. He wants the rare woman who can think for herself.

It is always best to be an original version of yourself than a cheap, knockoff imitation of somebody else. —Karen Ehman

I saw the authentic rather than the rebuilt or enhanced.

The idea of the original had no place.

Lizzy's inarching to her own drummer

I think I can make an entirely new game experience, and if I can't do it, some other game designer will.

The guy who invented the first wheel was an idiot. The guy who invented the other three, he was a genius.

Go out there and either be the first to fail or fail uniquely.

Everyone is worried about what people might be thinking.... Successful people go a step further and focus on what no one is thinking about.

Surety is the end of creativity.

The charm of anything is in it's novelty.

Why settle for someone else's version of the truth?

I don't want to always be 'the best I can be.' I just want to be me.

Don't be afraid to be unique. Love yourself before you love another.

It is the lone worker who makes the first advance in a subject: the details may be worked out by a team, but the prime idea is due to the enterprise, thought and perception of an individual.

There are always some lunatics about. It would be a dull world without them.

If you only do what others have already done, you will only feel what others have already felt. However, if you choose to achieve something that no one has ever done, then you will have a satisfaction that no one else has ever had.