Quotes about Originality
Creativity is just learning to do something with a different perspective.
— Ben Carson
It is only a man's own fundamental thoughts that have truth and life in them. For it is these that he really and completely understands. To read the thoughts of others is like taking the remains of someone else's meal, like putting on the discarded clothes of a stranger.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
Search the parks in all your cities You'll find no statues of committees
— David Ogilvy
I am attracted to arguments that have a certain plausible originality to them.
— Dinesh D'Souza
They are trying to make me into a fixed star. I am an irregular planet.
— Martin Luther
Those who follow the crowd will never be followed by a crowd.
— John Maxwell
would take more than a Jesus to invent a Jesus.5
— Josh McDowell
No man who bothers about originality will ever be original; whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence about how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it. The principle runs through all life from top to bottom. Give up yourself, and you will find your real self.
— Peter Kreeft
Discovery is seeing what everybody else has seen, and thinking what nobody else has thought.
— Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
He who will not use the thoughts of other men's brains proves that he has no brains of his own.
— Charles Spurgeon
Don't just go out and do what Dick Eastman or your spiritual hero did. That's a spiritual cop-out. Copycat spirituality is short lived.
— Mark Batterson
God is not a duplicator, He is a Creator. You are an original!
— Reinhard Bonnke