Originality Quotes - Page 3

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

Some people say I was very brave, but I really just didn't know any better. All I had was my originality.

Credentials have been a problem for a long time in my work. Originality has been my strength, and credentials and academia have not been.

The more intelligent a man is, the more originality he discovers in others.

Men often applaud an imitation and hiss the real thing.

The greater a man's talents, the more marked his idiosyncracies. Yet in the provinces originality is considered perilously close to lunacy.

A good imitation is the most perfect originality

Originality is nothing but judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed one from another.

The mark of highest originality lies in the ability to develop a familiar idea so fruitfully that it would seem no one else would ever have discovered so much to be hidden in it.

Creativity is the defeat of habit by originality.

While an original is always hard to find, he is easy to recognize.

The most original of authors are not so because they advance what is new, but more because they know how to say something, as if it had never been said before.

The beauty is that through disappointment you can gain clarity, and with clarity comes conviction and true originality.

Should we all confess our sins to one another we would all laugh at one another for our lack of originality

I'd like to be an original, to be myself and not a pale copy of anyone else.

The only thing worth doing is what's never been done before.

If there's an original thought out there, I could use one right now.

When I came up, it was all about originality and collective research. There is an awful lot of imitation going on now.

The true is inimitable, the false untransformable.

A man is original when he speaks the truth that has always been known to all good men.

Many a man fails as an original thinker simply because his memory it too good.

An original writer is not one who imitates nobody, but one whom nobody can imitate.

To overestimate the originality of one's thoughts is perhaps a less serious defect than being unaware of their newness. There is a more pronounced lack of sensitivity in underestimating (ourselves and others) than in overestimating.

All cases are unique and very similar to others.

I always took a great deal of pride in being original.