Quotes About Originality

If you are going to do something truly innovative, you have to be someone who does not value social approval. You can't need social approval to go forward. Otherwise, how would you ever do the thing that you are doing?

If your idea is truly innovative, you're going to hear from the naysayers. After all, if it really were such a good idea, someone would have already done it, right?

I really want to be creative. I want to innovate. I want to be innovative, and I want to do things that are different.

You have to be innovative and creative to make yourself employable.

I believe in being an innovator.

It's very hard to be an innovator at the highest level in any discipline. For some chefs it's merely about combining ingredients, but that's something you can do with your eyes closed.

I'm not an innovator.

I have never been an innovator, a creative genius.

As an artist, I understand that, and I value the creative input of the artist.

It can be disheartening to see acts that don't necessarily have any input on their own material to do so well in the charts.

Frank Zappa... was Beethoven for insane rock guys.

Broad City's first season is full of moments that are insane... and yet make total sense.

I'm a little insane, and I'm going to be a little different. But hopefully, somewhere in there, in that creative arena, something will emerge that is new and different and unique.

There's been a lot of successful shows like 'This Is Us,' 'Atlanta,' and 'Insecure,' so, I feel like whenever something works, Hollywood wants to copy it.

Ananya is a very happy soul, who won't get bogged down by insecurities. I have told her to not imitate anyone.

I don't try and copy anyone in T20 cricket. My cricketing shots are inside out, behind the bowler, and other shots I have developed.

All bad Literature rests upon imperfect insight, or upon imitation, which may be defined as seeing at second-hand.

Everybody told me that if I insisted on doing rockabilly music, I'd never have a chance of selling any records. In fact, I lost count of how many people told me to ditch it all together, in favour, I guess, of sounding like everybody else.

I always start from scratch with a character - they're never based on anyone else. You get ideas of what people look like, and I'm a great people watcher. You can draw inspiration from people.

To have someone inspire you to be who you are and be unapologetic about it, it's beautiful.

I have never followed fashion. What is fashion to me? I just think of things that inspire me, that inspire women, and I design that way.

I feel like I have a unique voice that's true and authentic, and we need more of that. If I can inspire more of that, I need to do that in as many places as possible.

I think that for a lot of people, I inspire them to be themselves.

I dared to be different, I want to inspire others to do the same.