Originality Quotes


Originality is undetected plagiarism. William Ralph Inge Originality 207
All my best thoughts were stolen by the ancients. Ralph Waldo Emerson Originality 92
Only those with no memory insist on their originality. Coco Chanel Originality 92
originality and a feeling of ones own dignity are achieved only through work and struggle. Fyodor Dostoevsky Originality 82
Unlike a fountain that circulates the same water in an enclosed perpetually recycling system a human being circulates thoughts in an unlimited reservoir of self. Dont limit yourself to being a mere fountain when you contain an ocean. Vera Nazarian Originality 72
Originality is the best form of rebellion. Mike Sasso Originality 71
A poor original is better than a good imitation. Ella Wheeler Wilcox Originality 50
The small are always dependent on the great they are small precisely because they think they are independent. The great thinker is one who can hear what is greatest in the work of other greats and who can transform it in an original manner. Martin Heidegger Originality 43
We are all feeding from each other all the time every day. Dave Eggers Originality 43
When we reject our origins we become the product of whatever soil that we find ourselves planted the colors of our leaves change as we consume borrowed nutrients with borrowed roots and like a tree we grow. Mike Norton Originality 40
I always took a great deal of pride in being original. Roger Miller Originality 38
That which is original creates a new origin. That which is original by definition must stray off the previously worn paths. It must wander it must err. Blake Charlton Originality 38
When you have wit of your own its a pleasure to credit other people for theirs. Criss Jami Originality 37
Give up on trying to be original. Every song has been sung every picture has been painted and every story has been told. The best one can do is sing draw or tell it again well. Evan Mandery Originality 37
Man or at least criminal man has lost all enterprise and originality. As to my own little practice it seems to be degenerating into an agency for recovering lost lead pencils and giving advice to young ladies from boardingschools. Arthur Conan Doyle Originality 37
You have to do stuff that average people dont understand because those are the only good things. Andy Warhol Originality 36
Anymore no ones mind is their own. Chuck Palahniuk Originality 34
Solitude is the soil in which genius is planted creativity grows and legends bloom faith in oneself is the rain that cultivates a hero to endure the storm and bare the genesis of a new world a new forest. Mike Norton Originality 32
The ethics of plagiarism have turned into the narcissism of small differences because journalism cannot own up to its heavily derivative nature it must enforce originality on the level of the sentence. Malcolm Gladwell Originality 31
Conform go crazy or become an artist. Nancy Springer Originality 30
Any fool can do something cool and look cool but it takes skill to make something uncool cool again. Criss Jami Originality 28
Plus if youre a copycat you can never keep up. Youre always in a passive position. You never lead you always follow. You give birth to something thats already behind the timesjust a knockoff an inferior version of the original. Thats no way to live. Jason Fried Originality 27
Originality not Intelligence is the sign of a brilliant Author. All the Education in the world wont help someone who cant think for themselves. A.M. Sawyer Originality 25
Creative people are often found either disagreeable or intimidating by mediocrities. Criss Jami Originality 21

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