Quotes About Originality

I don't know why it is, how it is, but it's the authentic, the unique, the different that makes us feel enriched when we encounter it. And a bland, plastic, synthetic, universal can't-tell-one-brand-of-coffee-from-another-brand-of-coffee by contrast makes life flat, uninteresting, and essentially uncreative.

No wonder nothing had worked. No one else was him.

I'm not Jane Eyre for goodness' sake.

Shakespeare, Leonardo da Vinci, Benjamin Franklin and Abraham Lincoln never saw a movie, heard a radio or looked at television. They had 'Loneliness' and knew what to do with it. They were not afraid of being lonely because they knew that was when the creative mood in them would work.

You don't get to new places by following established tracks.

Everybody can tell a story but it is different to create a real book, a real literary text that has several voices in itself and that breathes with its own mouth and has its own lungs and looks toward its own body. To create that body you have to start out with a stone and stones do not have lungs or air in themselves.

I guess I've always been attracted to people who stand out as individuals - people who are adventurous and take chances.

La rutina no está tanto en las cosas como en nuestra incapacidad para crear a cada momento un vínculo original con ellas, en nuestra tendencia a leerlas por la falsilla de lo rutinario, de lo ya aprendido. Hay que seguir dejando siempre abierta la puerta al cuarto de jugar.

Don't be trapped by dogma—which is living with the results of other people's thinking," Jobs told the graduates. "Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become.

novelty is the single most effective way to capture a person's attention.

Solo lo que es realmente único e inesperado está en condiciones de destacar del resto». El cerebro no puede ignorar la novedad y, una vez que incorporemos las técnicas de esta sección, los oyentes no serán capaces de ignorarnos.

estimulan a su público con nueva información o empleando un enfoque original

seguir nuestro propio camino, la clave definitiva para ser presentadores genuinos y auténticos en los que la gente sienta que puede confiar.

Stay in your lane. Hold the space. Be true to your authentic self—the best representation of yourself that you can possibly be.

If you want to know the feeling, just take your bottom lip and pull it over your head.

When you try to talk about yourself, you dont know who you are, or what your like, or what your like to other people. And the moment you do it's a formula for yourself, and then you're imitating yourself, and then nobody likes you and they dont know why.

Of course, after the creative act no one cared about follow-through. That was beneath them.

This book is an invention, an act of the imagination, and in no way should be mistaken for reality, the place where much good invention originates.

A story too many times told is a dish with-out salt. ---Rose Wilder Lane

only crazy people capitalize every word.

Josh is ... Josh

What is the use of having an imagination if you can't make it work for you?

I don't want my life to imitate art, I want my life to be art.

I feel like what I look like is government issue, it's pretty much out of my hands. But I invent the stuff I say. That's me.