Quotes About Originality

You must be ready to be called a 'madman' too, another name for genius in our generation.

Nunca le permitas a nadie que te haga pensar de ti mismo como que eres alguien ordinario. Si alguien te hace sentir menos de lo que eres, sólo tienes que ver en el espejo y decir, "Tú eres alguien completamente original". Tú eres una persona única, irremplazable, original.

Me reading a QUOTE is interesting, but my own QUOTES I enjoy reading them."

The creative act is not pure.

I wouldn't compare myself to any past Idol contestant, because I don't feel like I am like any of them. Maybe stories are cool but my story is different from most people's story. I don't like to compare myself to other people, I like to just be me.

In a world of those who follow the rules without deviation those who innovate even in the shadows, will rule. Never be a carbon copy." -Ena

In a world of those who follow the rules without deviation," Ena had added, "those who innovate even in the shadows, will rule. Never be a carbon copy.

Beauty and ingenuity beat perfection hands down, every time.

As the German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer once said—as quoted by Della more often than Liv cared to count—"Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.

He is just different. That is all." She looked perplexed, but said, "Different is good. Different is wonderful.

When we choose to be different, we have to expect a little attention.

But the "best" lies are those that look the most like the Truth. The "newest" lies are the oldest ones.

For who would I be if I tried to be someone besides Jane? The poser of the world try so hard to be what they are not, and yet... how fatigued they must be Perhaps I am not smart enough to be one of them. Nor strong enough in constitution.

Conform, go crazy, or become an artist.

Besides, people who earn perfect scores are boring." -Doctor Reichwein

Not even a stone is the same as another stone

One must indeed be ignorant of the methods of genius to suppose that it allows itself to be cramped by forms. Forms are for mediocrity, and it is fortunate that mediocrity can act only according to routine. Ability takes its flight unhindered.

The authors present many things that are new, and many things that are true; unfortunately, the things that are true are not new; and the things that are new are not true.

We are very arrogant to think we alone have a totally original mind. We are carried on the backs of all the writers who came before us.

Style requires digesting who we are.

It's a lot better to sound like Ernest Hemingway than like Aunt Bethune, who thinks Hallmark greeting cards contain the best poetry in America.

Suzuki Roshi once said to his Sixties American students that the way they dressed- with beads, long hair, brightly colored clothes-they all looked alike. Shave your heads, wear black robes, he said- Ah, now I can see your uniqueness. Our ideas and intentions can mask and cover up a story; there is a life force that will declare itself if you let it. Get out of the way.

He was surprised, as always, to witness a new degradation, to find another display of wretchedness original enough to bring tears to his eyes. He took a deep breath and ignored the sense of injustice, a rich man's emotion, a feeling Mendel had given up the liberty of experiencing horrors and horrors before.

Just be yourself and you'll be fine