Quotes About Originality

If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking. That's the world of hicks and slobs. Real people would be ashamed of themselves doing that.

That's how it is with art. Mere humans who root through their refrigerators at three o'clock in the morning are incapable of such writing.

The curious thing about individuals is that their singularity always goes beyond any category or generalization in the book.

I can't build a simple shelf. I have no idea how to change an oil filter on a car. I can't even stick a stamp on an envelope straight. And I'm always dialling the wrong number. But I have come up with a few original cocktails that people seem to like.

No matter what they wish for, no matter how far they go, people can never be anything but themselves

Si leyera lo mismo que los demás, acabaría pensando como ellos.

Originality is nothing but judicious imitation. So said Voltaire, the realist." "You agree with that?" "Everything has boundaries. The same holds true with thought. You shouldn't fear boundaries, but you also should not be afraid of destroying them. That's what is most important if you want to be free: respect for and exasperation with boundaries.

M?runÈ›iÈ™urile pe care le gândeÈ™ti cu propria-È›i minte sunt mai importante decât marile idei emise de alÈ›ii.

One opposite of imagination is "efficiency.

N?u ch? ??c sách m?i ng??i Ä'ang ??c, c?u s? ch? nghÄ© nh?ng gì m?i ng??i Ä'ang nghÄ© mà thôi.

It's not that I don't believe in contemporary literature, but I don't want to waste valuable time reading any book that has not had the baptism of time. Life is too short. (...) If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking. That's the world of hicks and slobs. Real people would be ashamed of themselves doing that.

What is originality, after all, but the shape that results from the natural impulse to communicate to others that feeling of freedom, that unconstrained joy?

Pero así como no hay que temer a los moldes, tampoco hay que tener miedo de romperlos.

Originality is nothing but judicious imitation. So said Voltaire, the realist.

No matter how far you go, you can never be anything but yourself.

Everyone may be ordinary, but they're not normal.

Ogni persona agisce basandosi su dei criteri propri. Nessun essere umano è uguale a un altro. È un problema di identità insomma. Ma che cos'è l'identità? È l'originalità del sistema di pensiero basato sull'insieme dei ricordi delle esperienze passate. Più semplicemente la si può chiamare lo spirito. Non esistono due persone con lo stesso spirito.

N?u b?n ch? ??c nh?ng quy?n sách mà m?i ng??i Ä'ang ??c thì b?n cÅ©ng ch? nghÄ© nh?ng gì m?i ng??i Ä'ang nghÄ©.

If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking. That's the world of hicks and slobs. Real people would be ashamed of themselves doing that. Haven't you noticed, Watanabe? You and I are the only real ones in the dorm. The other guys are crap.

Your readers have seen a sky with one moon in it any number of times, right? But I doubt they've seen a sky with two moons in it side by side. When yoy introduce things that most readers have never seen before into a piece of fiction, you have to describe them with as much precision and in as much detail as possible. What you can eliminate from fiction is the description of what most readers have seen.

Too many people work in ways that are not their ways, and that almost guarantees nonperformance.

Leadership has many voices. You need to be who you are, not try to emulate somebody else.

But your task is to become something much more unique and surprising than anyone your parents could ever imagine you to be. You have to know that the life you have is completely yours.

Scientists could make a human, but they could not make an artist.