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Quotes About Originality

There's nothing man can imagine that nature hasn't already created a zillion times better.
~ Stewart Stafford
Were I but perfectly normal, I would just not be.
~ Fakeer Ishavardas
In a world full of daisies dare to be a rose.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Everybody is unique and different. Nobody is the same as anyone else. there is no 'normal' - it is a lie taught to us by a system so flawed that it is threatened by the awesome diversity of nature.
~ Christina Engela, Demonspawn
Creativity is nature. Nature is creativity.
~ A.D. Posey
Roses do not take beauty advice from weeds.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
I don't like straight lines: men make them.
~ Richard Adams
You may strive to be like them but seek not to make them like you. For life goes not backward nor tarries with yesterday.
~ Khalil Gibran
Talent is a long patience, and originality an effort of will and intense observation.
~ Gustave Flaubert
Conformity is the ape of harmony.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Be kind. Be compassionate. Be love. Be original. Be authentic. Be peace. Be yourself. BE.
~ Karen A. Baquiran
.you are not him or her, you be you..
~ Boris Kovalík
Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible.
~ Frank Zappa
It is not that I am mad, it is only that my head is different from yours.
~ Diogenes of Sinope
Remain true to yourself and your philosophy.
~ Giorgio Armani
Nintendo's philosophy is never to go the easy path; it's always to challenge ourselves and try to do something new.
~ Shigeru Miyamoto
I have always done what I love myself. My philosophy was that I never had focus groups. I did what I wear.
~ Ralph Lauren
Infancy conforms to nobody; all conform to it.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Original philosophy is always "deviant" or even subversive.
~ Mario Bunge
None but blockheads copy each other.
~ William Blake
I feel like a novice, just as I felt before I knew anything of the keyboard. It is far too original, and I shall end up not being able to learn it myself.
~ Frederic Chopin
Who says I like right angles? These are not my laws, these are not my rules.
~ Ani DiFranco
With type as with philosophy, music and food, it is better to have a little of the best than to be swamped with the derivative, the careless, the routine.
~ Robert Bringhurst
One of my life philosophies is that you have a choice to make when you're doing something creative. You can be cheesy... or you can be lame.
~ Marc Webb