Quotes About Originality

People seldom improve when they have no other model, but themselves to copy after.

why are trying so hard to fit in, when you're born to stand out

why are trying so hard to fit in, when you're born to stand out

It is perfectly easy to be original by violating the laws of decency and the canons of good taste.

A thought is often original, though you have uttered it a hundred times.

In a society governed by Roman law which accords an absolute and indisputable value to private property, they practise mutual assistance and, with a free originality, a certain sharing of possessions. In a society that takes eroticism for granted and where utterly heedless cruelty holds sway in regard to the embryo and the new born child, Christians bear their witness to the chastity of conjugal love and they oppose abortion and the desertion of infants.

Vivete la vostra vita, quella che meglio vi corrisponde senza diventare preda dei luoghi comuni legati al successo. Siate voi stessi, profondamente, e sarete felici. E' questo il fine ultimo della vita. Otterrete una soddisfazione che nessuno potrà rubarvi.

As much as I live I shall not imitate them or hate myself for being different to them

Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean, you will never be strong or original. Stand alone or bury your ambition to be somebody in the world.

Conventional Wisdom" is certainly not wisdom, and only is conventional because foolishness is so common today.

You can't make a difference until you dare to be different.

For a person to make a difference in the world, he must be different than the world.

I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.

If one is fashionable for the greater part of one's career, one will produce second-class work. Perhaps by chance one will arrive at being a success but this means that one is a follower and not an innovator. An artist should lead, blaze trails.

A hero is one who wants to be himself .

The real things are apt to be deviant.

You were born 1 of 1 and original, dying a copy should never be an option

Contrasting ideas are constantly swirling around us in billions of forms, it's tough to remain vigilant, but just be you and be yourself.

Architecture is invention.

Be you because everyone else is taken!

Consistency is the last resort of the unimaginative.

Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.

Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

a ship could be built entirely from foreign planks, but it must have its own form