You were not born to impress the world, but to impress the universe.
Your original self is worth more than your imitation of someone else.
(n.) The quality or state of being original.
If roses tried to be sunflowers, they would lose their beauty; and if sunflowers tried to be roses, they would lose their strength.
I refuse to believe that Hendrix had the last possessed hand,that Joplin had the last drunken throat,that Morrison had the last enlightened mind.
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...
To be envied for your giftedness is better than to be accepted for your untalentedness.
Following a trend is useful, until you start alienating the original. The last thing we want is to live in a world where everything is the same. Originality and individuality is key.
I think the writer is initially set going by literature more than by life. When there are many writers all employing the same idiom, all looking out on more or less the same social scene, the individu...
Our ancestors have invented, we can at least innovate.
Carving your own path gets you to greatness quicker than following someone else's trail.
I don't make people comfortable but that's what couches are for.
Not like others? You may be inspired differently. Be bold, step out, follow YOUR intuition, no matter how sedate or impossible it may appear
If you are saying the same thing as everyone else, then why would and why should anyone think you are different from everyone else?
Every text is unique and, at the same time, it is the translation of another text. No text is entirely original because language itself, in its essence, is already a translation: firstly, of the non-v...
The pathology of normalcy rarely deteriorates to graver forms of mental illness because society produces the antidote against such deterioration. When pathological processes become socially patterned,...
The prerequisite of originality is the art of forgetting, at the proper moment, what we know.
originality and a feeling of one's own dignity are achieved only through work and struggle.
An original pebble is better than a counterfeit diamond.
There is nothing new except what has been forgotten.
In fact, Lig never formally resigned his editorship—he merely left his office late one morning, and has never returned since. Though well over a century has now passed, many members of the Guide staff...