Originality Quotes

Don’t try to be original, just try to be good.

~ Paul Rand

It's okay to write a cliché in a first draft; it sets a marker that you can get far, far away from in the rewrites.

~ Stewart Stafford

Admirations are never paid in any way, try to make yourself of what you admire, and it will pay you with originality.

~ Auliq Ice

When your ideas shatter established thought, expect blowback.

~ Tim Fargo

Madness, genius, originality - it's all the same thing; it's a breaking of our normal value structure and the substitution of another one.

~ Malcolm Bradbury

Be yourself. An original is worth more than a copy.Style is King, 2008.

~ Suzy Kassem

Any fool can do something cool and look cool, but it takes skill to make something uncool cool again.

~ Criss Jami

You're an original, an individual, a masterpiece. Celebrate that; don't let your uniqueness make you shy. Don't be someone other than the wonder you are. Every star is important to the sky.

~ Douglas Pagels

Any local music scene at any point in time can be referred to as derivative of more well-known acts. The line separating influence from imitation is a blurry one. Very few artists are completely original; even great artists build upon what has occurred before, and add their personality and talent to create their own original expression.

~ Stephen Tow

The presence of hundreds of books had finally convinced Hermione that what they were doing was right.

~ J.k. Rowling

If you are saying the same thing as everyone else, then why would and why should anyone think you are different from everyone else?

~ Loren Weisman

He: Whale you be my valentine? She: Dolphinitely.

~ Adam Young

If an artist wants to be original, he should not look to art for inspiration, for art seeks its model in life, not art—and only life is rich enough to simulate originality.

~ Anthony Marais

I am never forget the day I first meet the great Lobachevsky.In one word he told me secret of success in mathematics:Plagiarize!Plagiarize!Let no one else's work evade your eyes!Remember why the good Lord made your eyes!So don't shade your eyes,But plagiarize, plagiarize, plagiarize -Only be sure always to call it please 'resea

~ Tom Lehrer

If you fold the sentence sure you will see the other side but for sure you will loose the beauty of original one..

~ Jayesh Varma

Pampered content is a public resignation of artistic integrity.

~ Kevin Focke

But he meant beauty in the sense of its organic connection to the material. And this is the connection that, for me, separates true stylists from decorators. The decorators are easy to recognize. That's why critics love them so.

~ Sidney Lumet

The ethics of plagiarism have turned into the narcissism of small differences: because journalism cannot own up to its heavily derivative nature, it must enforce originality on the level of the sentence.

~ Malcolm Gladwell

Another great mistake is this; another understandable error is this: living to live the footprints of others when you have your own foot! Live your footprints! You were born unique! If possible, put the shoes of others, (they must fit you however) but don't walk as they walked and as much as possible, don't leave the same footprints they left except you were born to be like them or you can change the face of their footprints into a unique artifact!

~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

People of different dispositions make the world go round. That's why it's insanity to try to be someone else.

~ Ufuoma Apoki

Originality and initiative are what I ask for my country.

~ Robert Frost

A book written within, contains ideas and thoughts from all over, where each page explains itself.

~ Auliq Ice

About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgment.

~ Josh Billings

But the French writers always had more originality and independence than others, and that regulator, which elsewhere was religion, long since ceased to exist for them.

~ Henryk Sienkiewicz

All good things which exist are the fruits of originality.

~ John Stuart Mill

Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it.

~ Laurence J. Peter