Quotes about Originality

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When you're socially awkward, you're isolated more than usual, and when you're isolated more than usual, your creativity — Criss Jami, Killosophy
Anymore, no one's mind is their own. — Chuck Palahniuk, Lullaby
An original idea. That can't be too hard. The library must be full of them. — Stephen Fry
Our ancestors have invented, we can at least innovate. — Amit Kalantri
One does not have to be a philosopher to be a successful artist, but he does have to be an artist to be a successful phi — Criss Jami, Killosophy
For people never say anything the same way twice; no two of them ever say it the same. The greatest imaginative writer t — Nelson Algren, Entrapment and Other Writings
Think outside the box? Indeed. But to add balance to that, one should not in the process forget what the inside of the b — Criss Jami, Killosophy
originality and a feeling of one's own dignity are achieved only through work and struggle. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky
You can't be a rebel without the scars that come with it. Truth is, some days scars are just as ugly as they are beautif — Criss Jami, Killosophy
I'd rather be interesting, original, & unique then follow the pack. Revel in who you truly are & be liberated! — Amy Leigh Mercree
You were not born to impress the world, but to impress the universe. — Matshona Dhliwayo
No man, proclaimed Donne, is an Island, and he was wrong. If we were not islands, we would be lost, drowned in each othe — Neil Gaiman, American Gods
Forge your iron; shape it by force, not into a flower you already know but into what can also be a flower if you think i — João Cabral de Melo Neto, Education by Stone
In order to share one's true brilliance one initially has to risk looking like a fool: genius is like a wheel that spins — Criss Jami, Venus in Arms
Solitude is the soil in which genius is planted, creativity grows, and legends bloom; faith in oneself is the rain that — Mike Norton, White Mountain
I need not adapt in certain ways. I am in fact but a visitor to this world, an ephemeral gasp within its long, tired his — Criss Jami
Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of void but out of chaos. — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Every story has already been told. Once you've read Anna Karenina, Bleak House, The Sound and the Fury, To Kill a Mockin — Anna Quindlen
An original writer is not one who imitates nobody, but one whom nobody can imitate. — François-René de Chateaubriand, The Genius of Christianity or the Spirit and Beauty of the Christian Religion
Is it possible to say "It was a beautiful morning at the end of November" without feeling like Snoopy? — Umberto Eco, Postscript to the Name of the Rose