Quotes About Originality

A lot of times when people get copied, they get copied and washed out. But you can't even duplicate how we do it because it's just so genuine. It's just us.

After all these years of listening it seems to me that the essential quality of the human soul is uniqueness. Each of us is one of a kind. None of us has existed in the history of the human race before.

A true artist is born with a unique voice and cannot copy so he has only to copy to prove his originality.

Some people never really talk about anything—they just repeat the same old sentence from time to time.

Avoid the crowd. Do your own thinking independently. Be the chess player, not the chess piece.

I prefer a man who is unskillful, who is an awkward writer, but who has something to say, who is dealing himself one time on every page.

Congratulate yourselves if you have done something strange and extravagant and broken the monotony of a decorous age.

To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in our private heart is for all men - that is genius.

Genius has no taste for weaving sand.

Great men or men of great gifts you shall easily find, but symmetrical men never.

Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it.

We are as much informed of a writer's genius by what he selects as by what he originates.

By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote. In fact, it is as difficult to appropriate the thoughts of others as it is to invent.

Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.

To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men-that is genius.

The best part of life is when you are 'YOU' without any mental or psychological make-up.

One way to avoid what has already been done is to be true to yourself.

You know, it is very simple to be a genius. All you have to do is think for yourself.

I had just two rules for their virtual reality worlds: No shooting violence and no pornography. I issued that decree mostly because those things have been done in computer games only about a zillion times, and I was looking for original thinking.

You know, I grew up on romantic comedies, and it's hard to find a new way to tell that story.

Don't think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It's self-conscious, and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can't try to do things. You simply must do things.

Besides, the brothers did have some equipment that couldn't be readily copied. They had a specially fabricated aluminum griddle for one thing, and the set-up of all the rest of the equipment was in a very precise, step-saving pattern. Then there was the name. I had a strong intuitive sense that the name McDonald's was exactly right.

I thought we were gonna open up the world of poetry and music to all kinds of things, and yet, I can't really think of anyone who's done anything like it since.

The really inspired person is never inspired: he's always inspired: he doesn't go looking for inspiration and he doesn't get up in arms about artistic technique.