Quotes About Originality

The band readily acknowledged that they borrowed ideas rather than making up their own. "That's all you can do today," Turner explained. "I think you're kinda fooling yourself as a rock band if you think you're doing something really original.

You don't have to sound like the Sex Pistols, all you have to be is different to provoke such animosity.

Many copies of the Lungs EP had unique inserts, including dollar bills, locks of hair, Bruce Lee photos, used condoms, old photographs, rubber animals, and blood-spattered pieces of paper courtesy of a friend of Albini's who suffered from chronic nose-bleeds.

So they decided to make their own culture

He didn't want to be what he wasn't, he didn't know how to be what he was.

Geniuses never pay attention.

What makes you think human beings are sentient and aware? There's no evidence for it. Human beings never think for themselves, they find it too uncomfortable. For the most part, members of our species simply repeat what they are told—and become upset if they are exposed to any different view.

We stand out, we strike out, we do our own thing, go our own way. The herd of independent minds, somebody called it.

The problem with the truth is, it's so often mild and clichéd.

Novelty in creative endeavors usually arises from routine -- you have to be familiar with something before you know what is novel.

good science is to see what everyone else can see but think what no one else has ever said.

The only thing any of us can do completely on our own is to have the start of a good idea.

if you challenge the conventional wisdom, you will find ways to do things much better than they are currently done.

So many problems occur when people fail to be obedient when they are supposed to be obedient, and fail to be creative when they are supposed to be creative. The

the people who already saw themselves as experts in the field would be least capable of original thought.

Burry did not think investing could be reduced to a formula or learned from any one role model. The more he studied Buffett, the less he thought Buffett could be copied; indeed, the lesson of Buffett was: To succeed in a spectacular fashion you had to be spectacularly unusual. "If you are going to be a great investor, you have to fit the style to who you are," Burry said. "At one point I recognized

The way I solve a hard problem is not to start with the conventional wisdom, but to start over.

A part of good science is to see what everyone else can see but think what no one else has ever said.

A part of good science is to see what everyone else can see but think what no one else has ever said. The difference between being very smart and very foolish is often very small.

One avoids becoming a Tolkien clone precisely by returning to the same roots that inspired The Lord of the Rings.

Don't put my name on it. These are simply documents I make.

In art, the obvious is a sin.

The faking of feelings is a sin against the imagination.

There will never be another Frank Sinatra. I never wanted to be another Frank Sinatra. I only wanted to be another Michael Buble.