Original Quotes

Creative people are often found either disagreeable or intimidating by mediocrities.

~ Criss Jami

Others inspire us, information feeds us, practice improves our performance, but we need quiet time to figure things out, to emerge with new discoveries, to unearth original answers.

~ Ester Buchholz

Telephone did not come into existence from the persistent improvement of the postcard.

~ Amit Kalantri

Sometimes a writer simply finds new ways of saying what has already been said because, ultimately, truth is unoriginal.

~ Kamand Kojouri

Symbols,” Langdon said, “in no way confirm the presence of their original creators.

~ Dan Brown

The value of an artist is more because of his originality than his skill.

~ Amit Kalantri

The people you think are the happiest are usually the saddest; that's because they see more and feel deeper than others do. They are the sensitive and they see beyond the veil of what's tangible and what's not. They wear no masks and can see through the masks of others. The sensitive to life are few in number, which is why they feel so alone...because they are all alone.

~ Donna Lynn Hope

Disappointment and Depression are terrorists that kidnap people's original peace for no good reason. The Holy Spirit of God is a dependable army to drive them away! May you be free from being disappointed and depressed. May you have and share peace as long as you live!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

When you have gone beyond thinking, and if you can still remain alert, aware, as if one is fast asleep but still alert—deep down at the very core of one’s being a lamp goes on burning, a small candle of light—then you will see your original face. And to see your original face is to be back in the Garden of Eden.

~ Osho

Eureka can be an answer to a question we have never asked. It can be the articulation of a sudden and unforeseen idea or the expression of a magic moment that throws us into a new world. It acts like a radiant sunbeam that comes out of the blue and illuminates a dim past, opening a new, dynamic horizon. It may even be a trivial but lucky encounter with new friends, who let us be what we are in our imagination: original and undifferentiated. (“Waiting for Eureka” )

~ Erik Pevernagie

Convictions in our ideas is dangerous not only because it leaves us vulnerable to false positives, but also because it stops us from generating the requisite variety to reach our creative potential.

~ Adam Grant

Let's face it. We live in a command-based system, where we have been programmed since our earliest school years to become followers, not individuals. We have been conditioned to embrace teams, the herd, the masses, popular opinion -- and to reject what is different, eccentric or stands alone. We are so programmed that all it takes for any business or authority to condition our minds to follow or buy something is to simply repeat a statement more than three or four times until we repeat it ourselves and follow it as truth or the best trendiest thing. This is called programming -- the frequent repetition of words to condition us how to think, what to like or dislike, and who to follow.

~ Suzy Kassem

Japanese universities have a chair system that is a fixed hierarchy. This has its merits when trying to work as a laboratory on one theme. But if you want to do original work you must start young, and young people are limited by the chair system. Even if students cannot become assistant professors at an early age they should be encouraged to do original work....Industry is more likely to put its research effort into its daily business. It is very difficult for it to become involved in pure chemistry. There is a need to encourage long-range research, even if we don't know its goal and if its application is unknown.

~ Kenichi Fukui

God doesn't create imitations, so He designed you naturally. It’s ungratefulness to dream of putting on unnatural self. You have no right to fake God’s design!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

The best way to easily identify a counterfeit currency is to have a full exposure to the original currency. If you don't know your true vision, any satanic vision can cross your way and you might not know it.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Time's arrow is the loss of fidelity in compression. A sketch, not a photograph. A memory is a re-creation, precious because it is both more and less than the original.

~ Ken Liu

You are the most important person in the world. Every single of you. Don’t let anybody tell you differently, okay?

~ Alex Gaskarth

An anomaly has his own ambitions. You can try reasoning with him, but that's like using money to bribe a beast.

~ Criss Jami

Twins were deified, and sacrificed, in a more savage culture: hypersimilitude was equivalent to the murder of the original, and thus to a pure non-meaning.

~ Jean Baudrillard

Be Yourself. An original is worth more than a copy

~ Suzy Kassem

Once on yellow sheet of paper with green lines, he wrote a poemand he called it “Spot”because that was the name of his dog and that’s what it was all aboutand his teacher gave him an “A” and a big gold starand his mother hung it on the kitchen cupboard and showed it to his auntand that was the year his sister was born-and his parents kissed all the timeand the little girl around the corner sent him a postcard with a row of X’s on itand his father tucked him into bed at night and was always there.Then on a white sheet of paper with blue lines, he wrote another poemand he called it “Autumn”because that was the time of year and that’s what it was all aboutand his teacher gave him an “A” and told him to write more clearlyand his mother told him not to hang it on the kitchen cupboard because it left marksand that was the year his sister got glasses and his parents never kissed anymoreand the little girl around the corner laughed when he fell down with his bikeand his father didn’t tuck him in at night.So, on another piece of paper torn from a notebook he wrote another poemand he called it “Absolutely Nothing”Because that’s what it was all aboutand his teach gave him an “A” and a hard searching lookand he didn’t show it to his motherand that was the year he caught his sister necking on the back porchand the little girl around the corner wore too much make-up so that he laughed when he kissed herbut he kissed her anywayand he tucked himself in bed at three AM with his father snoring loudly in the next roomFinally, on the inside of a matchbook he wrote another poemand he called it “?” because that’s what it was all aboutAnd he gave himself an “A” and a slash on each wrist and hung it on the bathroom mirrorBecause he couldn’t make it to the kitchen.

~ Earl Reum

Heresy would like to think of itself as 'invented Truth'. But of course, all Reason and Logic would agree that no man can ever create Truth; he can only discover it. If heresy were ever at all beneficial, God would use it really to bring one right back to Truth, as countless 'inventions' have brought men to discovery.

~ Criss Jami

Be yourself. An original is always worth more than a copy.

~ Suzy Kassem

Opinions are like assholes, everybody has their own. I don't mess with yours and you don't mess with mine.

~ Unknown Wattpad Writer

When you are convinced that what you offer is yours, whether it be mediocre or of standard quality, your originality will make people love you in a way you did not expect.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

The Den, the best horror - You never know who is the Original!

~ Deyth Banger

A distaste for the new is not always fear of the unknown, but sometimes ambition. Some people don't like the new way simply because they never got a chance to master the old way.

~ Criss Jami

Unlike a fountain that circulates the same water in an enclosed, perpetually recycling system, a human being circulates thoughts in an unlimited reservoir of self.Don't limit yourself to being a mere fountain when you contain an ocean.

~ Vera Nazarian

To be original is not creating your own idea, it's the essence of the idea in the reader's mind.

~ Kaela Marooney

When the word is heard consult the source, and beware the messenger.

~ T.f. Hodge

Try not to become a copy of someone else. Not even a perfect copy. Originals are always honored over duplicates.

~ Hafiz

Don't be afraid to be exactly as awesome as you were created to be.

~ Rev. Kellen Roggenbuck

The fact differentiates the fake.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

No book can truly be original, but there are always way to make it unique.

~ Hiba Fatima Ahmad

...originality is little morethan the fine blending of influences.

~ Teju Cole

Her love was old but her methods were original.

~ Raubin Chaudhary

Originality is the key to being memorable.

~ Suzy Kassem

If you have one person you’re influenced by, everyone will say you’re the next whoever. But if you rip off a hundred people, everyone will say you're so original.

~ Austin Kleon

Just because it's something original, eccentric or you're not used to it; doesn't mean it's wrong.

~ Sandra Chami Kassis

Know all the paths, but walk on your path! Be original!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan