Quotes About Originality

Quieres sobresalir en medio de la multitud? Hazlo con tus logros y no usando un traje de payaso, así eso sea lo que usen los amantes de la moda.

rather babble away and at least partially express something difficult than reproduce impeccable clichés

The fruit of solitude is originality, something daringly and disconcertingly beautiful, the poetic creation. But the fruit of solitude can also be the perverse, the disproportionate, the absurd and the forbidden.

To be young means to be original, to have remained nearer to the sources of life: it means to be able to stand up and shake off the fetters of an outlived civilization, to dare -- where others lack the courage-- to plunge again into the elemental.

Solitude favors the original, the daringly and otherworldly beautiful, the poem. But it also favors the wrongful, the extreme, the absurd, and the forbidden.

La soledad hace madurar lo original, lo audaz e inquietamente bello, el poema. Pero también engendra lo erróneo, desproporcionado, absurdo e ilícito.

Our thought should not merely be an answer to what someone else has just said. Or what someone else might have said. Our interior world must be more than an echo of the words of someone else. There is no point in being a moon to somebody else's sun, still less is there any justification for our being moons of one another, and hence darkness to one another, not one of us being a true sun.

In an age where there is much talk about "being yourself" I reserve to myself the right to forget about being myself, since in any case there is very little chance of my being anybody else. Rather it seems to me that when one is too intent on "being himself" he runs the risk of impersonating a shadow.

People who dress up in bizarre costumes have a savoir-vivre - not to mention the sort of personality disorder - that he admires.

Don't you get tired of seeing so many non-conformists with the same non-conformist look?

some of the most important work that we can do as scholars may more closely resemble contemporary editorial or curatorial practices, bringing together, highlighting and remixing significant ideas in existing texts than remaining solely focused on the production of more ostensibly original texts.

hoops on toast.

The man who follows the crowd will usually get no further than the crowd. The man who walks alone is likely to find himself in places no one has ever been. -

Why compare yourself with others? No one in the entire world can do a better job of being you than you. - Unknown

It takes courage to say things differently: Caution and cowardice dictate the use of the cliché.

Charm is simply a matter of being yourself. Your uniqueness is your power.

wise words of Mark McCormack in his book What They Don't Teach You at Harvard Business School: "Creativity in business is often nothing more than making connections that everyone else has almost thought of. You don't have to reinvent the wheel, just attach it to a new wagon.

Creativity in business is often nothing more than making connections that everyone else has almost thought of. You don't have to reinvent the wheel, just attach it to a new wagon.

Also try to create your own "schtick," for lack of a better word—a content brand defined by that thing you do that no one else does. For example, there's a guy named Noah Scalin whose project was to make a "Skull-A-Day" and post pictures of them all at skulladay.blogpost.com. He committed to doing it for a full year.

The one thing no one has figured out how to outsource is the creation of ideas. You

Risks are what make the difference between new ideas and re-worked old ideas.

Almost all were total failures-they couldn't have been put on in the village hall for the author's friends. It wasn't a matter of lack of talent, but of miseducation. The authors of the pseudo-plays assumed that writing should be based on other writing, not on life. My play had been influenced by Beckett, but at least the content had been mine.

Songs are strange things. Little notes like that. If they stick, they stick. With most of the songs I've ever written, quite honestly, I've felt there's an enormous gap here, waiting to be filled; this song should have been written hundred of years ago. How did nobody pick up on that little space? Half the time you're looking for gaps that other people haven't done.

What I've learned from different designers is that it's key to be true to who you are and your vision. That's always been my line of thinking. Working through the whole design process, I don't want to create something I wouldn't be proud to wear.