Quotes About Originality

I do not think I'm easy to define. I have a wandering mind. And I'm not anything that you think I am.

Nobody can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own.

Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else, and you will be ten thousand times worse than nothing.

Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else, and you will be ten thousands times worse than nothing.

You never know what you might discover by thinking outside the box that culture, conformity, and critics have tried to impose.

The low-grade plagiarism of popularity will never lead you to true contentment.

Big ideas come from forward thinking people who challenge the norm, think outside the box, and invent the world they see inside rather than submitting to the limitations of current dilemmas

Be You, they will adjust

Ja wszystkim kogo? przypominam. ?ci?lej mówi?c, ka?demu kogo? innego przypominam. To tak, jakby mnie w ogóle nie by?o. Mnie pojedynczego, indywidualnego, z w?asnym niepowtarzalnym kodem genetycznym.

Only in spontaneity can we be who we truly are.

People must insist on the right to say no, to be alone, to stand out from the herd. Creative artists can say all this in their own way and in their own field, by hard, rigorous work.

Nobody can be exactly like me. Sometimes even I have trouble doing it.

You start admiring someone who's famous for actually doing something---imagine that---and I swear to you I will buy you every item in her entire wardrobe. But over my own dead body will I spend my own time and money turning you into a clone of some brain-dead waste of skin who thinks the pinnacle of achievement is selling her wedding shots to a magazine.

The pictures are good, Toby. They're good. But this is the only way, no one'll ever look twice if they come from me, I went to art school—

O'Kelly's disregard for cliche is so sweeping that it almost has its own panache. I find this entertaining or irritating or mildly comforting, depending on my mood, but at least it makes it very easy to prepare your script in advance.

Whatever the hell I am, I am Me.

It is human nature to instinctively rebel at obscurity or ordinariness.

I hope girls read what I say in interviews - they should just be themselves.

Just be yourself, there is no one better.

Your lucky enough to be different, never change

I remember straightening my hair because I wanted to be like everybody else, and now the fact that anybody would emulate what I do? It's just funny.

I don't think I'd ever make an album of just covers because I love writing my own music.

You will inhale Exhalation in a single, stunned sitting, because true genius doesn't come along nearly as often as advertised.' Blake Crouch

What I'll think is that you are clearly, maddeningly not me. It will remind me, again, that you won't be a clone of me; you can be wonderful, a daily delight, but you won't be someone I could have created by myself. —