Quotes About Originality

I consider myself lucky that Sonu Nigam, Bikram Ghosh and Taufiq Quereshi came forward to create an original soundtrack to promote my book, something that hasn't been tried here before!

Before me, music soundtracks were sort of afterthoughts.

Originality is the art of concealing your source.

The trouble is, once you say something about a source, then you've pegged it down, and so now I'm reluctant to say anything. If I say I developed 50 different shapes from Mississippian tumuli, that doesn't mean they're copies of tumuli - I'm not ripping off those shapes.

The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.

Some of the best ideas that we've invested in have made no sense to conventional sources.

If you're doing an animated comedy on the same channel as 'South Park,' no one can really tell you anything. The bar has been set so high.

The characteristic of great innovators and great companies is they see a space that others do not. They don't just listen to what people tell them; they actually invent something new, something that you didn't know you needed, but the moment you see it, you say, 'I must have it.'

I have the space and liberty to create.

An airplane cabin isn't the first place people think of when they choose an exhibition space, but I'm all for doing things differently.

I don't want to sound like anyone else, I wanted to be in my own creative space and find this river of melody myself.

I asked someone once why he liked Jean-Michel's work and why it was being singled out for acclaim, and he said, 'Because it looks like art.' But then again, art doesn't always look like art at first. The way the space shuttle that lifts off doesn't much resemble the space shuttle as it lands.

One of the problems with science fiction, which is probably one of the reasons why I haven't done one for many, many years, is the fact that everything is used up. Every type of spacesuit is used up, every type of spacecraft is vaguely familiar, the corridors are similar, and the planets are similar.

If you can be, be yourself.

Be yourself, because you are the perfect YOU!

Always be you! Just never think you can always be you without consequence.

When you feel as if you should conform and be like everyone else....Remember that you were born to stand out and be your uniquely beautiful and talented self.

Accept me for who iam or leave me the way iam, for a true image of God needs no Photoshop and the core of who i really am has no settings

A man should be more original than a bouquet of roses and a box of chocolates. Flowers die and sugar sticks to your hips like a permanent record to a criminal.

Sheep sheep are adorable.Human sheep, not so much.Think for yourself, for flock's sake.

There is not a better time to start being the unique contribution that you are.

There is nothing wrong being different. Being peculiar actually makes you stand out from others.

Do not prove but be yourself.

You can never please people enough. But you can only be yourself.