Originality and initiative are what I ask for my country.
When you release the illusion of control, you begin an effortless free-fall toward a grand reunion with your original self.
(n.) The quality or state of being original.
Insanity is coasting through life in a miserable existence when you have a caged lion locked inside and the key to release it.
I never set out to be weird. It was always other people who called me weird.
They say copying is a form of flattery, I say it's lack of originality.
He: "Whale you be my valentine?" She: "Dolphinitely.
The value of an artist is more because of his originality than his skill.
Every story has already been told. Once you've read Anna Karenina, Bleak House, The Sound and the Fury, To Kill a Mockingbird and A Wrinkle in Time, you understand that there is really no reason to ev...
Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of void but out of chaos.
A poor original is better than a good imitation.
What is originality? Undetected plagiarism.
He was no longer quite sure whether anything he had ever thought or felt was truly his own property, or whether his thoughts were merely a common part of the world’s store of ideas which had always ex...
Artistry, perhaps, is at its core being able to control change in interesting ways.
Curious that it is impossible for a man to be original without attracting around him a set of unoriginal minds, as though he were a honey-pot and they the flies!
Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it.
Each of us is an artist of our days; the greater our integrity and awareness, the more original and creative our time will become.
Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new after all.
The Japanese had no idea what elements of Western culture and institutions where the crucial ones, so they ended up copying everything, from western clothes and hair styles to the European practice of...
Stand up.Stand out.Stand firm.Stand strong.
Those who say there are no more original ideas need to get out of the way of those of us who are creating them.