Quotes about Originality

Do not be awe struck by other people and try to copy them. Nobody can be you as efficiently as you can.

I cannot be someone other than I am. How awful.

A thought is often original, though you have uttered it a hundred times.

Be you because everyone else is taken!

Consistency is the last resort of the unimaginative.

These three things always work together— moral intelligence, the spontaneous originality of the Holy Spirit, and the setting of a life lived in communion with God.

Sanctification is an impartation, not an imitation. Imitation is something altogether different.

Never make a principle out of your experience;let God be as original with other people as He is with you.

If there were only one truth, you couldn't paint a hundred canvases on the same theme.

Ah, good taste! What a dreadful thing! Taste is the enemy of creativeness.

I am never forget the day I first meet the great Lobachevsky. In one word he told me secret of success in mathematics: Plagiarize! Plagiarize! Let no one else's work evade your eyes! Remember why the good Lord made your eyes! So don't shade your eyes, But plagiarize, plagiarize, plagiarize - Only be sure always to call it please 'research'." [ Lobachevsky ]

Great work tends to grow out of ideas that others have overlooked, and no idea is so overlooked as one that's unthinkable.