Quotes About Originality

The woman who emerged had to be eight feet tall. Her hair was every shade of purple, piled in buns and hanging in braids, and all of it sprinkled with gems like stars.

Everybody is original, if he tells the truth, if he speaks from himself. But it must be from his *true* self and not from the self he thinks he *should* be.

Don't always be appraising yourself, wondering if you are better or worse than other writers. "I will not Reason and Compare," said Blake; "my business is to Create." Besides, since you are like no other being ever created since the beginning of Time, you are incomparable.

Everyone is talented, original and has something important to say.

everybody is talented, original and has something important to say.

Be who you is, 'cause if you ain't who you is, you is who you ain't.

That's the trouble about regulated ideas: the phrases are never original, the same words keep recurring.

The general advice is always be yourself, be yourself, which only makes sense if you haven't got an attitude problem.

If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.

If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away. It is not important that he should mature as soon as an apple-tree or an oak. Shall he turn his spring into summer?

We are constantly invited to be what we are.

If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.

Why should we be in such desperate haste to succeed and in such desperate enterprises? If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.

No man ever followed his genius til it misled him.

Follow your genius closely enough, and it will not fail to show you a fresh prospect every hour.

I desire that there may be as many different persons in the world as possible; but I would have each one be very careful to find out and pursue his own way, and not his father's or his mother's or his neighbor's instead. The youth may build or plant or sail, only let him not be hindered from doing that which he tells me he would like to do.

lET HIM MARCH TO THE MUSIC HE HEARS

The forcible writer stands bodily behind his words with his experiences. He does not make books out of books, but he has been there in person.

He was so genuine and unsophisticated that no introduction would serve to introduce him, more than if you introduced a woodchuck to your neighbor.

Think for yourself, or others will think for you without thinking of you.

Nature abhors repetition

Noi non veneriamo né le Grazie né le Parche, ma la Moda.

I occasionally observed that he was thinking for himself and expressing his own opinion - a phenomenon so rare that I would walk any day ten miles to observe it.

I would have each one be very careful to find out and pursue his own way, and not his father's or his mother's or his neighbor's instead. The youth may build or plant or sail, only let him not be hindered from doing that which he tells me he would like to do.