Quotes About Originality

I use language to pierce the brain. If I spoke like everybody else spoke, it would just dull everything.

When you're a writer, you want to try to avoid cliches. Unfortunately, when you're writing about marriage or family, all cliches seem to apply.

The principle goal of education in the schools should be creating men and women who are capable of doing new things, not simply repeating what other generations have done.

People who accomplish a great many things are people who have freed themselves from biases. These are the creative people.

Innovators and creative geniuses cannot be reared in schools. They are precisely the men who defy what the school has taught them.

Banality is a symptom of non-communication. Men hide behind their cliches.

A true artist is an ugly man.

To create man was a quaint and original idea, but to add the sheep was tautology.

There are no men like me. There's only me

The black man should seek to be, and he should be encouraged to be, the best possible black man and not the best possible imitation of a white man.

It is better to fail in originality, than to succeed in imitation. He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great. Failure is the true test of greatness.

If you wanna talk about influence, man, then you've got to realize that influence is not influence. It's simply someone's idea going through my new mind.

A man must be himself or nothing!

He who would be a man must therefore be a non-conformist.

It is better to fail with your own vision than to fail with another man's vision.

When Talking Heads started, we called ourselves Thinking Man's Dance Music.

Just be yourself man, be proud of who you are.

I am not apt to follow blindly the lead of other men

When man resolved to imitate walking, he invented the wheel, which does not look like a leg. In doing this, he was practicing surrealism without knowing it.

One man who saw through his own eyes and thought with his own brain. Such men may be rare, they may be unknown, but they move the world.

An absolutely new idea is one of the rarest things known to man.

You know I'm the first rapper to adopt a tabby cat. You know I adopted straight from the ASPCA, you feel me? Just breaking the boundaries, man.

Man is never truly himself except when he is actively creating something.

There was never an idea started that woke up men out of their stupid indifference but its originator was spoken of as a crank.