Quotes About Originality

I don't like standard beauty - there is no beauty without strangeness.

Personality begins where comparison ends.

This is the problem with inventing. Virtually everything has been done already. These days most things are just the same things but tweaked. Everything is 'new and improved'.

I think I would rather just live my life," Teddy said, "not make an artifice of it.

As soon as you can say what you think and not what some other person has thought for you, you are on the way to being a remarkable man.

All thoughtful men are solitary and original in themselves.

How little inventiveness there is in man, Grave copier of copies.

One man's style must not be the rule of another's.

In this age, the man who dares to think for himself and to act independently does a service to his race.

You cannot make a man by standing a sheep on its hind-legs. But by standing a flock of sheep in that position you can make a crowd of men.

Men walk almost always in the paths trodden by others, proceeding in their actions by imitation.

Old man's gotta be the old man. Fish has got to be the fish. Gotta be who you are in this world, no matter what.

I'll develop my own image. I'm an original man. A one and only. I just need some help.

The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity. The believing man is the original man; whatsoever he believes, he believes it for himself, not for another.

The only thing that a man may do that is new, is to write himself on human hearts.

The Life Triumphant is that which places what a man gives to the world in creative expression far ahead of that which he takes from it of the creations of others.

Real men don't conform to the beliefs of others, even when society has concluded on what is good and true, but maintain the integrity of their own mind.

In real life there is no such person as the average man.

I don't want to play out of another man's bag.

In proportion as our own mind is enlarged we discover a greater number of men of originality. Commonplace people see no difference between one man and another.

No bird has ever uttered note That was not in some first bird's throat; Since Eden's freshness and man's fall No rose has been original.

No man knows himself as an original.

A man would rather fail according to his own ideas than succeed according to another's.

What first attracted me to doing Swiss Army Man was just how mental it was - how insane and wonderful and original the script was.