51 Quotes Tagged: originality

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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 boarding-schools.

Being different and thinking different makes a person unforgettable. History does not remember the forgettable.

I never set out to be weird. It was always other people who called me weird.

Frank Zappa, American musician (1940–1993)

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...we have more faith in what we imitate than in what we originate. We cannot derive a sense of absolute certitude from anything which has its roots in us. The most poignant sense of insecurity comes from standing alone and we are not alone when we imitate. It is thus with most of us; we are what other people say we are. We know ourselves chiefly by hearsay.

It is necessary to any originality to have the courage to be an amateur.

Most people will never learn the lessons meant for them in this lifetime, nor become the person they were meant to be, simply because they are too busy being someone else, or someone they are not.

"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, they lose their individual character. On the contrary, the sick individual finds himself at home with all other similarly sick individuals. The whole culture is geared to this kind of pathology and arranged the means to give satisfactions which fit the pathology. The result is that the average individual does not experience the separateness and isolation the fully schizophrenic person feels. He feels at ease among those who suffer from the same deformation, in fact, it is the fully sane person who feels isolated in the insane society - and he may suffer so much from the incapacity to communicate that it is he who may become psychotic."

The kernel, the soul — let us go further and say the substance, the bulk, the actual and valuable material of all human utterances — is plagiarism.

Jonathan Lethem, American novelist, essayist, short story writer, Roy E. Disney Chair in Creative Writing, Pomona College

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An original idea. That can't be too hard. The library must be full of them.

Anyone who follows others never passes them by, and anyone who does not know how to do good works on his own cannot make good use of works by others.

Michelangelo, Italian artist and architect (1475–1564)

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Be different. Be original. Nobody will remember a specific flower in a garden filled with thousands of the same yellow flower, but they will remember the one that managed to change its color to purple.

Once conform, once do what other people do because they do it, and a lethargy steals over all the finer nerves and faculties of the soul. She becomes all outer show and inward emptiness; dull, callous, and indifferent.

A person who is truly cool is a work of art. And remember, original works of art cost exponentially higher than imitations. Just take a look at the the coolest people in history. They will always be a part of history for being extremely original individuals, not imitations.

An original artist is unable to copy. So he has only to copy in order to be original.

Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new after all.

Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States from 1861 to 1865

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