Top 9 Funny Basketball Quotes

Originality consists in trying to be like everybody else and failing.

Trying, Funny Basketball, Originality

Quoted by Jean Cocteau in his acceptance speech to the Académie Française, October 20, 1955.

Insist upon yourself. Be original.

Creating, Funny Basketball, Originality

Originality exists in every individual because each of us differs from the others. We are all primary numbers divisible only by ourselves.

Numbers, Funny Basketball, Originality

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

Confusion, Confusing, Funny Basketball

Nearly all our originality comes from the stamp that time impresses upon our sensibility.

Time, Funny Basketball, Originality

When a work appears to be ahead of its time, it is only the time that is behind the work.

Time, Funny Basketball, Originality

"Cock and harlequin: Notes concerning music". Book by Jean Cocteau, 1921.

Do your work, but do your thing.

Work, Purpose, Funny Basketball

It is necessary to any originality to have the courage to be an amateur.

Funny Basketball, Originality

Wallace Stevens (2011). “Opus Posthumous: Poems, Plays, Prose”, p.250, Vintage

Originality is a thing we constantly clamour for, and constantly quarrel with.

Funny Basketball, Originality, Clamour

Thomas Carlyle, Henry Duff Traill (2010). “The Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.11, Cambridge University Press

Funny Basketball Quotes