Quotes About Originality

Dont be afraid of being unique. Its like being afraid of your best self.

Why are trying so hard to fit in, when youre born to stand out.

Be what you are. This is the first step toward becoming better than you are.

Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.

Self-reliance is its aversion. It loves not realities and creators, but names and customs.

This gives force to the strong -- that the multitude have no habit of self-reliance or original action.

To be different isn't about changing yourself, it's about knowing yourself enough to never want to be someone.

You should not change yourself for others. Those who like you would love to see you the way you are.

To think outside the box; first you must learn how to open the box.

Don't be an example in someone else's theory, write yours using your own examples.

If you want someone real then stop messing with so many fakes!

If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.

Here's my advice: Go ahead and be whacky. Get into a crazy frame of mind and ask what's funny about what you're doing.

The best piece of advice I can give anyone is for them to be themselves. Being myself has helped me gain a better understanding of the world around me, specially my friends.

About the worst advice you can give to some people is, Be yourself.

Be yourself is the worst advice you can give to some people.

But you know you don't have to mirror that attitude, right? I mean, wouldn't it be better to be your own dazzling portrait rather than someone else's reflection

I was the kind bothered less by sinning than by unoriginality.

I am not made like any that I have seen; I venture to believe that I was not made like any that exist.

A great artist is not one who merely fits into a genre but one who defines the genre.

Don't be an example in someone else's theory, write yours using your own examples.

Just because you find a thought somewhere with somebody's name written after it doesn't mean they really said it.

Make your own path. The well trodden path is not always the right path.

just let Mitch be Mitch