Quotes About Originality

We don't do focus groups - that is the job of the designer.

The novelist screws up his courage in order to invest another two or three years in another attempt to float a boat of original design upon an invented ocean.

It's difficult for a company to be anywhere interesting in a world that is so dominated by prototypes and great and bright ideas.

Imitation can be commercial suicide.

If something is going to be better, it is new, and if it's new you are confronting problems and challenges you don't have references for.

The computer industry is creatively bankrupt.

Design is the last great competitive advantage.

Each artwork requires its own design

Regularity, order, desire for perfection destroy art. Irregularity is the basis of all art.

My art springs from my desire to have things in the world which would otherwise never be there.

The will to originality is not the will to be peculiar and unlike anybody else; it means the desire to derive one's consciousness from its primary source.

Do not desire to fit in. Desire to lead.

There is only one way in the world to be distinguished. Follow your instinct! Be yourself, and you'll be somebody. Be one more blind follower of the blind, and you will have the oblivion you desire.

Live each moment from your own inspiration, not from your desire to look good in the eyes of others.

When the creative spirit stirs, it animates a style of being: a lifetime filled with the desire to innovate, to explore new ways of doing things, to bring dreams to reality.

To be authentic is literally to be your own author... to discover your own native energies and desires, and then to find your own way of acting on them.

I'm not looking for sequels, but when something comes to you, and you're already a fan of that world, you have the desire to do it your way.

Goering's ideas betray a consistent desire to create something essentially new, implying all the historic virtues, but unlike [anything] of the past.

The less satisfaction we derive from being ourselves, the greater is our desire to be like others.

My first reading of Tolstoy affected me as a revelation from heaven, as the trumpet of the judgment. What he made me feel was notthe desire to imitate, but the conviction that imitation was futile.

Be who you are, said the Duchess to Alice, or, if you would like it put more simply, never try to be what you might have been or could have been other than what you should have been.

That's a pretty lame superhero name," I told him. "Scooby-Doo is already taken," he said with dignity. "Anything else sounds lame in comparison.

If you want to look like the people next door, you're probably smothering yourself into your dreams.

Do what others do not do, Believe in what others do not believe, Feel what others cant feel, Become what others cannot be