Quotes About Originality

Trust yourself. Think for yourself. Act for yourself. Speak for yourself. Be yourself. Imitation is suicide.

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If life gives you lemons - make grapejuice. Then sit back and let people wonder how you did it.

I think a good product would be Baby Duck Hat. It's a fake baby duck, which you strap on top of your head. Then you go swimming underwater until you find a mommy duck and her babies, and you join them. Then all of the sudden, you stand up out of the water and roar like Godzilla. Man those ducks really take off! Also Baby Duck Hat is good for parties.

Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else, and you will be ten thousand times worse than nothing.

Being like everyone else is highly overrated.

We don't care how they do it in New York.

An artist is a conduit for a vision that is as uniquely her own as a fingerprint, and unrecognizable until it appears.

I suppose," he thought, "it is not good for me to flower as the other plants. If I began like them I should probably end like them, and I feel that I could not be satisfied with that. After all, one should not try to be so much like others, but to be the very best of one's own sort.

I've been called many things in my life, but never a sacrificial penguin.

Do not desire to fit in. Desire to lead." - Mary Kay Ash

When many story-tellers occupy themselves with a social world which offers no great variety of lively action, their stories will probably resemble one another as to many of the major incidents, and if they draw on these limited resources like spend thrifts such resemblances will be inevitable--and therefore not significant.

Jane Austen never repeats herself.

Do not copy me," [Antoine] Bourdelle repeatedly told his students. "Sing your own song.

If [she] had come to prefer the company of odd ducks, it was possibly because they had no conception of oddity, or rather, they thought you were odd if you weren't.

A participant from Zambia, who had listened intently throughout the conference, finally raised her hand at a senior level roundtable. "I have been hearing this expression—'we need to think outside the box'—for the past 3 days," she said, reiterating the cliche. "It seems a little strange to me," the woman continued with bemusement. "In my community we don't thinking boxes.

We travellers are in very hard circumstances. If we say nothing but what has been said before us, we are dull and have observed nothing. If we tell anything new, we are laughed at as fabulous and romantic.

Agatha Swanburne - "Not all things should be baked in a pie.

And by the DODO, I mean me.

Creativity comes from looking for the unexpected and stepping outside your own experience.

The key to success for Sony, and to everything in business, science and technology for that matter, is never to follow the others.

If you are going to break a Law of Art, make the crime interesting.

Breaking from the herd is better than getting lost in it.

Carving your own path gets you to greatness quicker than following someone else's trail.