Quotes About Originality

I have a tendency to hire people who tend to be unattractive to the studios. Maybe this is a bad idea.

The NCI scientific programme leaders meet regularly to ensure that we are not ignoring highly original proposals and that we are not creating an unbalanced grant portfolio.

Some people have just got a capacity for creativity that's unbelievable!

If you're doing something like 'Arcadia' by Tom Stoppard, which has been done millions and millions of times, and it's been played some unbelievably well-respected actors, there's a lot more pressure there. But I try not to think about all the other people who have done it before me. You've got to try and be original.

Everyone who makes a Star Wars film wants to make it their own but they also have to be true to the concept.

Daddy, I don't like military parades. I never want to be like those people who march rank and file to music - they were given brains by mistake.

On wedding day you should look like yourself at your most beautiful

Conventional wisdom is no wisdom at all. Conventional wisdom is taking somebody else's word for the way things are It's the followers of this world who rely on assumption. Not the leaders.

Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself.

Ignore the conventional wisdom. If everybody else is doing it one way, there's a good chance you can find your niche by going in exactly the opposite direction.

Be innovative. Don't listen to the tried and tested wisdom. Take a risk!

All new ideas begin in a non-conforming mind that questions some tenet of the conventional wisdom.

A heretic is a man who sees with his own eyes

What a good thing Adam had. When he said a good thing he knew nobody had said it before.

Human progress is furthered, not by conformity, but by aberration.

It takes a lot of rehearsing for a man to be himself.

It is foolish to try to imitate the skills of others.

Everything of importance has been said before by somebody who did not discover it.

The elderly have weathered enough squalls to know that this one, too, shall pass. They own the courage to be original; they've learned to hold their own values above the conventional wisdom.

A great artist is a great man in a great child.

originality and a feeling of one's own dignity are achieved only through work and struggle.

There can be no forced inspiration.

They Laugh at me because I am different, I laugh at them because they all are the same.

Only dead fish follow the stream.