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Quotes about Originality

Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and make a trail.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
I hate quotes: tell me what you know.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
You can't have creativity unless you leave behind the bounded, the fixed, all the rules.
— Joseph Campbell
Show me anything whereof it may be said, See, this is new, and I will show you it hath been.
— Joseph Heller
would take more than a Jesus to invent a Jesus.5
— Josh McDowell
We're all different. You can't be somebody else, so you might as well get good at being who you are.
— Joyce Meyer
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!
— Joyce Meyer
The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.
— Walt Disney
So the verse means, "Do not let the age in which you live force you into its scheme of thinking and behaving."
— James Montgomery Boice
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.
— James Carse
The one thing which seems to me quite impossible is to take into consideration the kind of book one is expected to write; surely one can only write the book that is there to be written. ( Letter to Muriel St. Clare Byrne , 8 September 1935)
— Dorothy Sayers
When I started performing, there was no Internet; I didn't really have anything to copy. I kind of had to just make up what I thought burlesque was, based on photographs of Sally Rand or whatever.
— Dita Von Teese