Quotes about Originality

It is important to foster individuality, for only the individual can produce the new ideas.

And it's what you never will write, said the Controller. Because, if it were really like Othello nobody could understand it, however new it might be. And if were new, it couldn't possibly be like Othello.

You have to color outside the lines once in a while if you want to make your life a masterpiece.

One couldn't carry on life comfortably without a little blindness to the fact that everything has been said better than we can put it ourselves.

the intimate revelations of young men, or at least the terms in which they express them, are usually plagiaristic and marred by obvious suppressions.

I'm not trying to be fashionable. Never was!

Every individual, however original he may be, is still a child of God, of his age, of his nation, of his family and friends. Only thus is he truly himself. If in all this relativity he tries to be the absolute, then he becomes ridiculous.

If the sphere of paradox-religion is abolished, or explained away in aesthetics, an Apostle becomes neither more nor less than a genius, and then--good night, Christianity! Esprit and the Spirit, revelation and originality, a call from God and genius, all end by meaning more or less the same thing.

It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.

If a man can write a better book, preach a better sermon, or make a better mousetrap than his neighbor, though he build his house in the woods, the world will make a beaten path to his door.

When you've got 10,000 people trying to do the same thing, why would you want to be number 10,001?

Be the one to stand out in the crowd.