Originality Quotes

Only those with no memory insist on their originality.

~ Coco Chanel

He was no longer quite sure whether anything he had ever thought or felt was truly his own property, or whether his thoughts were merely a common part of the world’s store of ideas which had always existed ready-made and which people only borrowed, like books from a library.

~ Milan Kundera

I have been known to think outside of all rules. Even my own.

~ Ashly Lorenzana

Why should anyone be so grateful for acceptance unless he doubts that he is acceptable, and why should a young, educated and successful couple have such doubts, if not due to the fact that they cannot accept themselves because they are not themselves.

~ Erich Fromm

It's good when a man deceives your expectations, when he doesn't correspond to the preconceived notion of him. To belong to a type is the end of a man, his condemnation. If he doesn't fall into any category, if he's not representative, half of what's demanded of him is there. He's free of himself, he has achieved a grain of immortality.

~ Boris Pasternak

If everybody likes you, you are doing it wrong.

~ Ben Michaelis

Mockery is childish. It does not become you.

~ Veronica Roth

Be Yourself. An original is worth more than a copy

~ Suzy Kassem

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

~ Suzy Kassem

There is a great tendency today to want everybody to write just the way everybody else does, to see and to show the same things in the same way to the same middling audience. But the writer, in order best to use the talents he has been given, has to write at his own intellectual level. For him to do anything else is to bury his talents. This doesn't mean that, within his limitations, he shouldn't try to reach as many people as possible, but it does mean that he must not lower his standards to do so.

~ Flannery O'connor

Some writers confuse authenticity, which they ought always to aim at, with originality, which they should never bother about.

~ W.h. Auden

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 American Naming Authority, a collective of women studying the effects of names on behavior, decrees that a name should only have one user. The nearly 1 million American users of the name Mary, for example, do not constitute a unified army who might slaughter all users of the name Nancy, as was earlier supposed, but rather a saturation of the Mary Potential Quotient. Simply stated: Too many women with the same name produces widespread mediocrity and fatigue.

~ Ben Marcus

Every text is unique and, at the same time, it is the translation of another text. No text is entirely original because language itself, in its essence, is already a translation: firstly, of the non-verbal world and secondly, since every sign and every phrase is the translation of another sign and another phrase. However, this argument can be turned around without losing any of its validity: all texts are original because every translation is distinctive. Every translation, up to a certain point, is an invention and as such it constitutes a unique text.

~ Octavio Paz

When we reject our origins, we become the product of whatever soil that we find ourselves planted; the colors of our leaves change as we consume borrowed nutrients with borrowed roots and, like a tree, we grow.

~ Mike Norton

The depth of your art is subject to originality, Your own authentic style.

~ Unarine Ramaru

The Japanese had no idea what elements of Western culture and institutions where the crucial ones, so they ended up copying everything, from western clothes and hair styles to the European practice of colonizing foreign people. Unfortunately, they took up empire-building at precisely the moment when the cost of imperialism began to exceed the benefits.

~ Niall Ferguson

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

The most mesmerizing of artists is always like one who was merely drawing in the sand and people came to watch.

~ Criss Jami

Just be yourself. An original is worth more than a copy.

~ Suzy Kassem

Why should i have fake smile on my face ,If my heart and soul suffering in unrest. it's not my duty to entertain you But its my responsibility to be Honest and Original

~ Mohammed Zaki Ansari

I don't make people comfortable but that's what couches are for.

~ Donna Lynn Hope

Nothing of me is original. I am the combined effort of everyone I've ever known.

~ Chuck Palahniuk

When I wrote this song I felt pretty unoriginal because everybody writes love songs, and everybody feels like their love is the most important and when their love ends and they get their heart broken, that nobody understands. And…that’s ridiculous, but so am I.

~ Tegan Quin

Great artists are a little too gifted to be bound by boxes and labels, and in saying that, the label 'artist' is to be used lightly.

~ Criss Jami

The reason some people put on a mask in not in their blood but it is in their fear that we judge them too soon.

~ Ameya Agrawal

Start telling the stories that only you can tell, because there’ll always be better writers than you and there’ll always be smarter writers than you. There will always be people who are much better at doing this or doing that – but you are the only you.

~ Neil Gaiman

More than once I should have lost my soul to radicalism if it had been the originality it was mistaken for by its young converts.

~ Robert Frost

All the good stuff has already been said by someone somewhere at some point in time. You just have to find it. Today, communication pretty much comes down to understanding - saying what you have to say clearly and effectively...and then living it.

~ Criss Jami

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

~ Teju Cole

Originality, not Intelligence, is the sign of a brilliant Author. All the Education in the world won't help someone who can't think for themselves.

~ A.m. Sawyer

Salvation lies not in the faithfulness to forms, but in the liberation from them.

~ Boris Pasternak

A facility for quotation covers the absence of original thought.

~ Dorothy L. Sayers

Sometimes we have to behave indifferent towards people who proclaim their love to us, just to see if they are really different.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

Unlike written words which can mend those leaving the tip of your tongue never bend.

~ R.j. Green

Originality is the key to being memorable.

~ Suzy Kassem

It is commonly said to my little friend Legion: Read the great writers for style. But I say to him: Read the great dead masters for ideas. Devour them, Fletcherize them, digest, assimilate, make them part of your blood; let the enriched blood visit your brain. The resultant activities will be fairly your own, and the little kinks and convolutions of your brain, which are entirely different from the kinks of any other brain, will furnish you all the style you will ever get.There are no really fresh ideas; just as there is not any fresh air. Air and ideas are refreshed and refreshing, vitalized and vitalizing; but the thoughts have been thought before and the air has been breathed before.

~ Eugene Manlove Rhodes

When you release the illusion of control, you begin an effortless free-fall toward a grand reunion with your original self.

~ Bryant Mcgill

No mathematician should ever allow him to forget that mathematics, more than any other art or science, is a young man's game. … Galois died at twenty-one, Abel at twenty-seven, Ramanujan at thirty-three, Riemann at forty. There have been men who have done great work later; … [but] I do not know of a single instance of a major mathematical advance initiated by a man past fifty. … A mathematician may still be competent enough at sixty, but it is useless to expect him to have original ideas.

~ G.h. Hardy

Following a trend is useful, until you start alienating the original. The last thing we want is to live in a world where everything is the same. Originality and individuality is key.

~ J.s. Strange