Quotes About Originality

She wanted to surprise everyone by her dash and originality, but she could not help modeling herself on the last person she met, and the confusion of ideals thus produced caused her much perturbation when she had to choose between two courses.

Don't let us be like all the others! she protested.

It seems so to me, said his wife, as if she were producing a new thought.

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, and the confusion of ideals thus produced caused her much perturbation when she had to choose between two courses.

You've put it in a nutshell: the ideal of the American woman is to be respectable without being bored; and from that point of view this world they've invented has more originality than I gave it credit for.

What is originality in art? Perhaps it is easier to define what it is not and this may be done by saying that it is never a willful rejection of what has been accepted as the necessary laws of various forms of art. Thus in reasoning originality relies not in discarding the necessary laws of thought, but in using them to express new intellectual conceptions. In poetry originality consists not in discarding the necessary laws of rhythm but in finding new rhythms within the limits of those laws.

I wonder whether he is the real thing, or only the bundle of eccentricities he appears."106

Lateral thinking has very much to do with perception. In lateral thinking we seek to put forward different views. All are correct and all can coexist. The different views are not derived each from the other but are independently produced. In this sense lateral thinking has to do with exploration just as perception has to do with exploration.

I just kind of conjured them up out of my subconscious and put them in order of ascending peculiarity.

As someone once said, originality is not taking from somebody else. It's when nobody can take it from you and repeat it.

If an artist is good, nobody else can do what he or she does and therefore all comparisons are incoherent. Only the mediocre, pushing forward a commonplace view of life in a commonplace language, can really be compared, but my wife thinks that least mediocre of the mediocre is a discouraging title for a prize[.]

The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.

Creativity is knowing how to hide your sources

He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would fully suffice.

He who joyfully marches in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would suffice.

Freaks are the much needed escape from the humdrum. They are poetry.

The least of man's original emanation is better than the best of a borrowed thought.

Discovery is seeing what everybody else has seen, and thinking what nobody else has thought.

Discovery consists in seeing what everyone else has seen and thinking what no one else has thought.

Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else and thinking something different

Science is to see what everyone else has seen but think what no one else has thought.

The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.

ese encuentro es El Poema tal como lo sueño y tal como jamás lo escribiré y tal como nadie lo escribió nunca.

Do you hear that, Dillon? Inadvertent self-wedgie! Write that down! That's what you want your characters to say, not some anodyne bullshit about corporate greed.