Quotes About Originality

You were born an original work of art. Stay original.

When your madness is creative and necessary, people will not notice the fact that you are crazy.

Want to help others? Be yourself. You'll inspire others to muster the courage to be themselves as well.

you were born as an origional don't die as a copy

Confidence is knowing who you are and not changing it a bit because of someone's version of reality is not your reality.

Candler—mixed with the secret formula was. . . IMAGINATION!

There is no standard price on ideas. The creator of ideas makes his own price, and, if he is smart, gets it.

Just as no monkey is as good-looking as the ugliest of humans, no academic is worthier than the worst of the creators

Most people fear being without audiovisual stimulation because they are too repetitive when they think and imagine things on their own.

from increasing the number of people in the "tails," that small, very small number of risk takers crazy enough to have ideas of their own, those endowed with

growth in society may not come from raising the average the Asian way, but from increasing the number of people in the "tails," that small, very small number of risk takers crazy enough to have ideas of their own

A nerd is simply someone who thinks exceedingly inside the box.

They thought out of the box, like traders, except much better and without fear of introspection.

It struck me how lacking in imagination we are:

A genius is someone with flaws harder to imitate than his qualities.

and unappreciated upon their discovery, and remained unappreciated well after their initial use.

Even the apples we see in the stores are to be regarded with some suspicion: original apples were devoid of sweet taste and fruit corporations bred them for maximal sweetness—the mountain apples of my childhood were acid, bitter, crunchy, and much smaller than the shiny variety in U.S. stores said to keep the doctor away.

If it were known and obvious, then someone next door would have already come up with the idea and it would have become generic.

The tragedy of virtue is that the more obvious, boring, unoriginal and sermonizing the proverb, the harder it is to implement.

so she could read it in the original.

Innovators and creators are persons who can to a higher degree than average accept the condition of aloneness—that is, the absence of supportive feedback from their social environment.

Often what people call "thinking" is merely recycling the opinions of others.

Innovators and creators are persons who can to a higher degree than average accept the condition of aloneness.

It was as if she had been made afresh out of new elements, and must perforce be permitted to live her own life and be a law unto herself without her eccentricities being reckoned to her for a crime.