Quotes About Originality

The standards for horror fiction should be no less than those for 'serious literary' fiction in which originality of concept, depth of characters, and attentiveness to language are vitally important.

Of course, a literary work is a kind of nest: an elaborately and painstakingly woven nest of words incorporating chunks and fragments of the writer's life in an imagined structure, as a bird's nest incorporates all manner of items from the world outside our windows, ingeniously woven together in an original design.

Be Yourself "To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment." —RALPH WALDO EMERSON But let every person carefully scrutinize and examine and test his own conduct and his own work. He can then have the personal satisfaction and joy of doing something commendable [in itself alone] without [resorting to] boastful comparison with his neighbor. —Galatians 6:4 For

We're all different. You can't be somebody else, so you might as well get good at being who you are.

It's very easy to find fault with ourselves and think we need to be like someone else. Be who you are and don't try to be a copy!

the competitive mind is not the creative one.

You must get rid of the thought of competition. You are to create, not to compete for what is already created.

He has a way of walking through conventions of that kind as if they did not exist, and being so much himself that pretty soon people begin adapting themselves to him.

It is the celestial ennui of apartmentsThat sends us back to the first idea.

It is necessary to any originality to have the courage to be an amateur.

I cannot bear to associate with the ordinary run of people. I have to surround myself with individuals who for the most part are more than a trifle insane

I believe in being an innovator.

The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.

The socially relevant achievement of the average person serves in the vast majority of cases to repress the original and nonderivative, inner aspirations of the human being.

As long as I live I shall always be My Self - and no other, Just me.

Picasso had a saying - 'good artists copy, great artists steal' - and we have always been shameless about stealing great ideas.

On the day he unveiled the Macintosh, a reporter from Popular Science asked Jobs what type of market research he had done. Jobs responded by scoffing, "Did Alexander Graham Bell do any market research before he invented the telephone?

Success is no proof of virtue. In the case of a book, quick acclaim is presumptive evidence of a lack of substance and originality.

Where all men think alike, no one thinks very much.

When all men think alike, no one thinks very much.

When all think alike, no one thinks very much

Bei einem Dichter klauen ist Diebstahl, bei vielen Dichtern klauen ist Recherche

Stealing from one author is plagiarism; from many authors, research.

Is it really so important to be different?