Quotes About Originality

Those that cannot produce ideas often speak with the old proverbs!

Tradition kills originality; you keep repeating the same things in tradition! Behave like the sky; always create new and different things; be original!

When writing for other comedians, someone once told me, "I want to make it my own." I'd say, "Look, the jokes are written. The relationships are written. First, do it as written. Later you can make it your own." A lot of people don't realize that without a valley, there is no peak. Without information, there is no joke. You've got to set things up.

I'm none of those things. I'm just me.

You are who you are, and no one can change that. So be yourself, because no one can do it better.

Ideas, we all know, are not born in people's heads. They begin somewhere out there, loose wisps of smoke swirling directionless in their search for a befitting mind.

When one goes to be introduced to the king, one must be ready to wear something that would scare small children ... Just you wait. We're off to concoct a monstrosity, dearest, a monstrosity. I must tell you, it is quite fun. We shall stand in the middle of the room and anything that we see which we would never dream of putting on a dress, we shall sew right into every seam! Bells and porcelain cherries. And, oh, we mustn't forget all that goes on underneath!

for instance. "When we say 'World Domination,' " Pavitt explained, "we're saying, 'Fuck you, we're from Seattle, and we don't care if the media machines are in L.A., we're going to create our own.

It is difficult to think outside the box because the thinking IS the box.

I was not ladylike, nor was I manly. I was something else altogether. There were so many different ways to be beautiful.

Yet he saw that in all places there was originality, resulting from the human efforts at decoration and ingenious methods of survival.

T.S. Eliot once wrote, "Immature poets borrow. Mature poets steal.

As you start your journey, the first thing you should do is throw away that store-bought map and begin to draw your own.

Creativity thinks up new things. Innovation does new things.

Asperger felt that autistic people could have beneficial talents, especially what he called a "particular originality of thought" that was often beautiful and pure, unfiltered by culture or discretion, unafraid to grasp at extremely unconventional ideas. Nearly every autistic person that Sacks observed

It is not possible to be original by trying to be original - those who attempt this in the arts will be merely avant-garde. Originality is the product of an impulse to intense and overwhelming that it bursts the conventions and produces something new - again more by accident than design.

If I have a style, I am not aware of it.

Nothing is sexier than the naked mind --nothing more seductive than the inventive imagination.

The greatest service you can offer the world is to be your own authentic, weird and eccentric self.

Embrace your eccentricity and creativity, live outside the norm, and wait for the world to catch up.

To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism; to steal from many is research.

I look at Jagger and the like and if I see a good attitude I'll admire it but I wouldn't copy their style.

The lesson of Buffett was: To succeed in a spectacular fashion you had to be spectacularly unusual.

If you challenge conventional wisdom, you will find ways to do things much better than they are currently done. Bill James