Quotes About Originality

Si lo que haces es ser como todos los demás, para qué te has metido en esto? Si te limitas a imitar a tus competidores, tu existencia no tiene sentido. Incluso si al final acabas perdiendo, es mejor caer luchando por lo que crees que limitarse a copiar a los demás.

fingers." You can buy the same guitar, effects pedals, and amplifier that Eddie Van Halen uses. But when you play that rig, it's still going to sound like you.

it's better to go down fighting for what you believe in instead of just imitating others.

If you're just going to be like everyone else, why are you even doing this?

When you just copy and paste, you miss that. You just repurpose the last layer instead of understanding all the layers underneath.

If you're successful, people will try to copy what you do. It's just a fact of life. But there's a great way to protect yourself from copycats: Make you part of your product or service. Inject what's unique about the way you think into what you sell. Decommoditize your product. Make it something no one else can offer.

Make you part of your product or service. Inject what's unique about the way you think into what you sell. Decommoditize your product. Make it something no one else can offer.

Even if I tried to be my dad, it would be a mediocre, slightly embarrassing version.

Today you are You, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is Youer than You.

Why fit in when you were born to stand out?

It takes courage to be creative. Just as soon as you have an idea, you become a minority of one.

The hardest challenge is to be yourself in a world where everyone is trying to make you be somebody else.

Favor everything without exception that makes people different: discourage everything whatsoever that makes people alike. The Rest follows

As for expressing nobody-but-yourself in words, that means working just a little harder than anybody who isn't a poet can possibly imagine. Why? Because nothing is quite as easy as using words like somebody else. We all of us do exactly this nearly all of the time — and whenever we do it, we're not poets.

Those who do not attempt to appear more than they are but are simply themselves, stand out as remarkable and are the only ones who truly make a difference in this world.

The fact that everyone else is doing it doesn't make it any less insane.

No one else in the wide world, since the dawn of time, has ever seen the world as you do, or can explain it as you can. This is what you have to offer that no one else can.

I am not eccentric. It's just that I am more alive than most people. I am an unpopular electric eel set in a pond of catfish.

A classic is classic not because it conforms to certain structural rules, or fits certain definitions (of which its author had quite probably never heard). It is classic because of a certain eternal and irrepressible freshness.

It seems stupid to have discovered America only to make it into a copy of another country.

True originality consists not in a new manner, but in a new vision.

Undine was fiercely independent and yet passionately imitative. She wanted to surprise every one by her dash and originality, but she could not help modelling herself on the last person she met.

Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before.

Original! We're all as like each other as those dolls cut out of the same folded paper. We're like patterns stenciled on a wall. Can't you and I strike out for ourselves, May?