Quotes About Originality

The thing is, it's very easy to be different, but very difficult to be better.

following the herd was not a good thing, that it was a terrible thing to do

Both of them had this ability to—well, not invent products—but discover products. Both of them said these products have always existed, it's just that no one has ever seen them before. We were the ones who discovered them. The Polaroid camera always existed and the Macintosh always existed. It's a matter of discovery

The thing is, it's very easy to be different, but very difficult to be better. – JONY IVE

Nobody ever understands what a pioneer is doing.

I despise followers of any kind, especially those who follow me.

I think you can have moderate success by copying something else, but if you really want to knock it out of the park, you have to do something different and take chances.

My beauty comes from having my own style, living my own way and knowing my own mind.

Labels don't mean anything to me. I'm trying to play as passionately as I'm able to. If they want to call that cool, that's fine. Just spell the name right, is the formula.

I try not to do anything that's too close to what I've done before. And the nice thing is we have a big universe here. It's filled with new ideas. All you have to do is grab them.

It's a tremendous challenge, because there have been so many characters created over the years. Every time you think you come up with a great name, you find out somebody has already done it. Dreaming up the stories isn't that hard, but coming up with a good title is the toughest part.

Never be afraid of a cliché, if it expresses what you wish to say.

But your imaginings would be ersatz, as all imaginings are.

To those who hadn't been around Violet long, nothing would have seemed unusual, but those who knew her well knew that when she tied her hair up in a ribbon to keep it out of her eyes, it meant that the gears and levers of her inventing brain were whirring at top speed.

of the necessary equipment to invent really top-notch

Nobody can offend you by telling a dirty toilet story. They can offend you because it's trite; you've heard it many, many times.

I was not born in a vacuum. Every thought I have belongs to someone else.

The secret of all effective originality in advertising is not the creation of new and tricky words and pictures, but one of putting familiar words and pictures into new relationships.

You are the only you ... You are the best you. You will always be the second best anyone else.

You are the best you. You will always be the second best anyone else.

Dresscodes are for styleless people.

He wants his children to have an old life and a new life, a life that is indivisible from all lives past, that grows from them, exceeds them, and another that is original, pure, free, that is beyond the prejudice which protects us, the habit which gives us shape. He wants them to know both degradation and sainthood, the one without humiliation, the other without ignorance.

A chef's genius is not to create a dish from original ingredients, but to combine standard ingredients in original ways. The diner recognizes the pattern established in the foundation of a baked stuffed turkey, and we look for the variation, the twist that will surprise and delight

Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself.