Quotes about Originality

conventional phrases are a sort of fireworks, easily let off, and liable to take a great variety of shapes and colours not at all suggested by their original form.

In business or in life, don't follow the wagon tracks too closely.

Wear audacious underwear under the most solemn business attire.

Ordinary people pursue money, simple people pursue power, average people pursue fame, but extraordinary people pursue ideas.

Be yourself....and make the world adjust!

I think that as long as you stay true to you when you're putting out music, somebody's going to like it.

I don't hear anyone out there that sounds like us. They can try but it's in the sonics, the whole carcass of the song. The way it attacks you is so well engineered. No one else can do that. They don't have the ability to make that noise.

The secret is authenticity. The reason people fail is because they're pretending to be something they're not.

It's tragic how few people ever 'possess their souls' before they die. 'Nothing is more rare in any man', says Emerson, 'than an act of his own.' It is quite true. Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their life is a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

An artist should create beautiful things, but should put nothing of his own life into them.

Art finds her own perfection within, and not outside of, herself. She is not to be judged by any external standard of resemblance.

It is tragic how few people ever 'possess their souls' before they die. 'Nothing is more rare in any man,' says Emerson, 'than an act of his own.' It is quite true. Most people are other people. Their thoughts are some one else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.