Quotes and Sayings About Originality
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Men often applaud an imitation and hiss the real thing.
-- Aesop -
I, myself, was always recognized . . . as the “slow one” in the family. It was quite true, and I knew it and accepted it. Writing and spelling were always terribly difficult for me. My letters were without originality. I was . . . an extraordinarily bad speller and have remained so until this day.
-- Agatha Christie -
Originality is unexplored territory. You get there by carrying a canoe - you can't take a taxi.
-- Alan Alda -
Anyone who attempts anything original in the world must expect a bit of ridicule.
-- Alberto Juantorena -
The proponents of Steinitz' theory - Tarrasch and his supporters - tried to express Steinitz' teaching in the form of laconic rules, and as often happens in such cases, they went too far. The laconic tended to become dogmatic, and chess began to lose its freshness, originality and charm.
-- Alexander Kotov -
The glass I drink from is not large, but at least it is my own.
-- Alfred de Musset -
You come to Paris, you get true originality, and it's wonderful.
-- Andre Leon Talley -
No one can be profoundly original who does not avoid eccentricity.
-- Andre Maurois -
Creativity is the defeat of habit by imposing originality and change.
-- Andy Law -
Originality implies being bold enough to go beyond accepted norms.
-- Anthony Storr -
Because of this, originality consists in returning to the origin.
-- Antonio Gaudi -
Originality consists of returning to the origin. Thus, originality means returning, through one's resources, to the simplicity of the early solutions.
-- Antonio Gaudi -
The prerequisite of originality is the art of forgetting, at the proper moment, what we know.
-- Arthur Koestler -
Creativity is the defeat of habit by originality.
-- Arthur Koestler -
Anything really new is repulsive, because it is abnormal and unreasonable.
-- Asger Jorn -
Begin with another's to end with your own.
-- Baltasar Gracian -
Originality is the art of concealing your sources.
-- Benjamin Franklin -
The more intelligent a man is, the more originality he discovers in others.
-- Blaise Pascal -
U2 is an original species... there are colours and feelings and emotional terrain that we occupy that is ours and ours alone.
-- Bono -
When I was coming up, we weren't trying to get a hit or get paid, we were just trying to do our thing. The only thing we were really trying to do was to be recognized for our originality.
-- Bootsy Collins -
Credentials have been a problem for a long time in my work. Originality has been my strength, and credentials and academia have not been.
-- Budd Hopkins -
Some people say I was very brave, but I really just didn't know any better. All I had was my originality.
-- Buffy Sainte-Marie -
I always try to improve, to find new ways of expressing myself, to keep looking for truth and originality.
-- Burt Lancaster -
He has left off reading altogether, to the great improvement of his originality.
-- Charles Lamb -
All originality and no plagiarism makes for dull preaching.
-- Charles Spurgeon -
There is no such thing as originality. It has all been said before, suffered before. If a person knows that, is it any wonder love becomes mechanical and death just a scene to be shunned? There is no absolute knowledge to be gained from either. Just another ride on the merry-go-round, another blurred scene of faces smiling and faces grieved.
-- Clive Barker -
Only those with no memory insist on their originality.
-- Coco Chanel -
It takes a courageous fool to say things that have not been said and to do things that have not been done.
-- Criss Jami -
The only thing worth doing is what's never been done before.
-- David Salle