Quotes About Originality

Talent may be in time forgiven, but genius never

To be perfectly original one should think much and read little, and this is impossible, for one must have read before one has learnt to think.

To have frequent recourse to narrative betrays great want of imagination.

That part of a work of one author found in another is not of itself piracy, or sufficient to support an action; a man may adopt part of the work of another; he may so make use of another's labors for the promotion of science and the benefit of the public.

Creating authentic messaging with your story allows for the strategy, products, and security to come together correctly and create a melody that can be heard over the same old harmonies sung by everyone else.

Mostly authentic is impossible. You are authentic or you are not.

Using brand licensed content is not stealing but it is plagiarism.

You have to be first, different, or great. If you're one of them, you may make it.

Remember, you're unique. And so is everyone else.

You are different. That does not make you less.

You know, I believe it is possible to reference something other than Star Wars, boss." I narrowed my eyes in Muppetly wisdom. "That is why you fail.

I never met a normal person and neither have you.

Creativity. Taking something enormously strange and somehow making it strangely familiar.

We need more fruitcakes in this world, and less bakers!

These protests have about them an engaging period optimism, depending as they do upon the Rousseauean premise that most people, left to their own devices, think not in cliches but with originality and brilliance; that most individual voices, once heard, turn out to be voices of beauty and wisdom.

Everyone has his or her Frrance, his or her Paris, just as everyone has his or her London or New York. This stubborn habit strikes me as self-protection, an old tribal instinct for never showing one's back. Not knowing, not having gotten there first (and pocketing the goods), seem to implicate us as fools or rubes.

Competing to be the best feeds on imitation. Competing to be unique thrives on innovation.

I didn't and don't want to be a 'feminine' version or a diluted version or a special version or a subsidiary version or an ancillary version, or an adapted version of the heroes I admire. I want to be the heroes themselves.

Clones fit in. Freaks stand out. Ask me which one I prefer.

Throw away the rule book and create your own.

But I've learned now that your hard work and dedication will pay off, if you dare to be different. Because why would I want to be anything other than myself?

Be Patient to become a Patent

A sure way to start your own business is to stay out of everyone else's.

Originality and the feeling of one's own dignity are achieved only through work and struggle.