Quotes About Originality

I think it is very important in this business to be an individual

If you think in terms of topping, you're in the wrong business. You can't think that way.

The secret of success in business is creativity.

If you're looking where everybody else is looking, you're looking in the wrong spot.

Be bold in pursuing what others believe is unrealistic because this will achieve more than being bland and unimaginative.

Don't spend your time or money on being boring.

Anybody can cut prices but it takes brains to produce a better article.

I don't want to rap about my car. How generic is that? Be creative.

Art is a car, kitsch is a horse.

In an age where there is much talk about "being yourself," I reserve to myself the right to forget about being myself, since in any case there is very little chance of my being anybody else.

All the blues greats took chances and developed their own style. They didn't copy.

But just as my philosophy had ceased to interest me as soon as it was formulated into a set of principles so, when I saw myself being imitated, I realised at once what an incubus my aesthetic personality might become if I were to be trapped within it. Imitation changes, not the impersonator, but the impersonated.

Stealing someone else's words frequently spares the embarrassment of eating your own.

No man who bothers about originality will ever be original; whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence about how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it. The principle runs through all life from top to bottom. Give up yourself, and you will find your real self.

U svakom podru?ju života, tajna je originalnosti prestati pokušavati biti originalan i re?i istinu onako kako je vidiš.

Normal is the enemy of interesting.

steal anything.

The idea that one man's unique personal vision is greater than the importance of fashions in art or mainstream type philosophy.

I am basically much more interested in what is happening inside the child than what the outside appearance is. I believe that forced conformity on the outside often heightens tensions on the inside. Originality should be allowed and even encouraged." p173 Roy Entwistle, 1973.

The odd thing in this world is that an eager-beaver type, with no original ideas, who mimes those in authority above him right to the last twist of necktie and scrape of chin, always gets noticed. Gets selected. Rises.

You know what I think? I think you've picked up the Nazi idea that Jews can't create. That they can only imitate and sell. Middlemen.' He fixed his merciless scrutiny on Frink. 'Maybe so,' Frink said.

Nella tua mente c'è qualcosa che nessun altro ha. Ma non si tratta di precognizione. Di cosa allora? Hai senso dell'umorismo fu la risposta di Gretchen.

Originality is being different from oneself, not others.

Purity. Serenity. Simplicity. Seclusion. All one's concentration and flamboyance and originality reserved for the grueling, exalted, transcendent calling. I looked around and I thought, This is how I will live.