Quotes About Originality

As far as I was concerned, there was nothing wrong with being an odd duck. I figured some people have edges that don't allow them to slot into the holes society expects them to fit into, that was all.

If I start giving people what they like I'll turn into one of them and I don't want to be one of them I want to be one of me.

I find nothing in the Gospel of Thomas that contradicts any of Jesus's teachings in the canonical gospels. Rather, it rounds them out metaphysically and creates a newfound sense of awe as we see just how original and subtle his understanding really is. He is the first truly integral teacher to appear on this planet. As we take a fresh look at these teachings at once familiar and strange, we're catapulted forward again along a path that rings with the power of truth.

Always resemble yourself.

Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self. [ The New Statesman , February 25, 1933]

He began to have a dim feeling that, to attain his place in the world, he must be himself, and not another.

The World is a very old place, so you'll never be able to tell a completely original story

To the real artist in humanity, what are called bad manners are often the most picturesque and significant of all.

He or she is greatest who contributes the greatest original practical example.

Das Kunstwerk ist grundsätzlich immer reproduzierbar gewesen. Was Menschen gemacht hatten, das konnte immer von Menschen nachgemacht werden.

Der gesamte Bereich der Echtheit entzieht sich der technischen – und natürlich nicht nur der technischen – Reproduzierbarkeit.

As long as I shall live I shall always be My Self-and no other, Just Me.

She is the only rose that doesn't smell of plastic

A society's competitive advantage will come not from how well its schools teach the multiplication and periodic tables, but from how well they stimulate imagination and creativity.

Never do something that a thousand other people are doing.

When a person can take pleasure in marching in step to a piece of music it is enough to make me despise him. He has been given his big brain only by mistake.

Jobs was a strong-willed, elitist artist who didn't want his creations mutated inauspiciously by unworthy programmers. To him it would be as if someone off the street added some brush strokes to a Picasso painting or changed the lyrics to a Dylan song.

The only problem with Microsoft is they just have no taste, they have absolutely no taste," he said. "I don't mean that in a small way. I mean that in a big way, in the sense that they don't think of original ideas and they don't bring much culture into their product.

Rather than try to conform, he made a point of being different, dressing and carrying himself as a dandy.

It is in the mind of a single person that creative ideas and concepts are born.

Many people suppose that computing machines are replacements for intelligence and have cut down the need for original thought," Wiener wrote. "This is not the case."14 The more powerful the computer, the greater the premium that will be placed on connecting it with imaginative, creative, high-level human thinking.

When people take insights from multiple sources and put them together, it's natural for them to think that the resulting ideas are their own—as

Think Different" campaign, featuring iconic photos of some of the same people we were considering, and he found the endeavor of assessing historic influence fascinating. After

Jobs quoted Picasso: "Good artists copy, great artists steal." He added, "And we have always been shameless about stealing great ideas.