Quotes About Originality

Success is not being the best at what you do, it's reinventing the way it's done making it fresh, new and more efficient.

An artist must be careful not to throw his ideas out with the trash.

Bob and Lyn set Steve on the path he traveled in life. What was incredible about Steve was how much he made it his own. He took the example of his parents and ran with it.

Don't be afraid to be weird, don't be afraid to be different, don't worry too much about what other people think. Whatever it is that's original in you and your work might sometimes make you feel uncomfortable. That probably means you're on the right track, so just keep going. Dare to be foolish.

We forget that what matters begins with the imagination.

Why pretend to be something you're not? If you have to be someone, be someone no one else is.

I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.

I've always felt that what I have going for me is not my imagination, because everyone has an imagination. What I have is a relentlessly controlled imagination. What looks like wild invention is actually quite carefully calculated.

I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.

The important thing in writing is the capacity to astonish. Not shock—shock is a worn-out word—but astonish.

The mind is sharper and keener in seclusion and uninterrupted solitude. No big laboratory is needed in which to think. Originality thrives in seclusion free of outside influences beating upon us to cripple the creative mind. Be alone, that is the secret of invention; be alone, that is when ideas are born. That is why many of the earthly miracles have had their genesis in humble surroundings."

You just say the opposite to what everyone else thinks. Is that why people think you're so clever?

A genius is the one most like himself.

The logic of an arms race came to rule in art: and legions of untalented hacks who came after Miró devoted themselves to thinking about what had never been done before rather than about what they wanted to express.

Creativity is thinking up new things. Innovation is doing new things.

Be sure that whatever you are is you.

To go against the dominant thinking of your friends, of most of the people you see everyday, is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform.

STOP COMPARING YOURSELF WITH OTHERS

The quickest way to improve your self-esteem is to be yourself.

Every fucking corner of everything you write is precious, if it isn't why would you write it?

Marty This tasteless cover is a good indication of the lack of musical invention within. The musical growth of this band cannot even be charted. They are treading water in a sea of retarded sexuality and bad poetry.

To have a great idea, have a lot of them.

Keep on the lookout for novel ideas that others have used successfully. Your idea has to be original only in its adaptation to the problem you're working on.

Since Eden's freshness and man's fall, no rose has been original.