Quotes about Originality

Congratulate yourself if you have broken the monotony of a conventional age

But it is a cold, lifeless business when you go to the shops to buy something, which does not represent your life and talent, but a goldsmith's.

Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and make a trail.

I hate quotes: tell me what you know.

You can't have creativity unless you leave behind the bounded, the fixed, all the rules.

Show me anything whereof it may be said, See, this is new, and I will show you it hath been.

would take more than a Jesus to invent a Jesus.5

We're all different. You can't be somebody else, so you might as well get good at being who you are.

It's very easy to find fault with ourselves and think we need to be like someone else. Be who you are and don't try to be a copy!

The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.

So the verse means, "Do not let the age in which you live force you into its scheme of thinking and behaving."

We stand before genius in silence. We cannot speak it, we can only speak as it. Yet, though I speak as genius, I cannot speak for genius. I cannot give nature a voice in my script. I can not give others a voice in my script-without denying their own source, their originality. To do so is to cease responding to the other, to cease being responsible. No one and nothing belong in my script.