Originality Quotes - Page 16

• All these teachers and [screenwriting] books mean you see movies that have been worked over by more committees wielding more rules, that all originality and authorship is lost. That's why you're seeing superstars like Brad Pitt in THE FIGHT CLUB and Tom Cruise in MAGNOLIA. They're desperately searching for people writing and directing off-formula movies.

  Paul Schrader

  Teacher, Book, Writing

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• The will to originality is not the will to be peculiar and unlike anybody else; it means the desire to derive one's consciousness from its primary source.

  Nikolai Berdyaev

  Writing, Mean, Desire

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• An invitation to innovation, Radiant Orchid encourages expanded creativity and originality, which is increasingly valued in today's society.

  Leatrice Eiseman

  Creativity, Orchids, Innovation

  "Pantone's Radiant Orchid is 2014's Color of the Year" by Eun Kyung Kim, www.today.com. October 14, 2016.

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• When I was coming up, we weren't trying to get a hit or get paid, we were just trying to do our thing. The only thing we were really trying to do was to be recognized for our originality.

  Bootsy Collins

  Trying, Paid

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• Others can give you a name or a number, but they can never tell you who you really are. That is something you yourself can only discover from within.

  Thomas Merton

  Names, Numbers, Giving

  Thomas Merton (2005). “No Man is an Island”, p.12, Shambhala Publications

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• The mark of highest originality lies in the ability to develop a familiar idea so fruitfully that it would seem no one else would ever have discovered so much to be hidden in it.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Lying, Ideas, Mark

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• We prefer to think that the absence of inverted commas guarantees the originality of a thought, whereas it may be merely that the utterer has forgotten its source.

  Clifton Fadiman

  Thinking, Guarantees, May

  Clifton Fadiman (1957). “Any Number Can Play”, Cleveland : World Publishing Company

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• It is generally supposed that where there is no QUOTATION, there will be found most originality; and as people like to lay out their money according to their notions, our writers usually furnish their pages rapidly with the productions of their own soil: they run up a quickset hedge, or plant a poplar, and get trees and hedges of this fashion much faster than the former landlords procured their timber. The greater part of our writers, in consequence, have become so original, that no one cares to imitate them; and those who never quote, in return are never quoted!

  Isaac D'Israeli

  Running, Fashion, People

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• Creativity starts with a little touch of insanity and culminates with the highest trust on its beauty, but throughout it maintains the hands of originality,humanity and ALMIGHTY.

  Anuj

  Creativity, Hands, Insanity

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• I believe the structure of 'House of Leaves' is far more difficult to explain than it is to read. And while I'd like to lay claim to some extraordinary act of originality, truth is I'm only taking advantage of capabilities inherent in everyone.

  Mark Z. Danielewski

  Believe, House, Truth Is

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• For all filmmakers: True originality is the key, only direct your own unique movie scripts, be a megalomaniac and not give a damn.

  Tom Six

  Unique, Keys, Giving

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• 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

  Differences, Levels, Derivatives

  "Something Borrowed". www.newyorker.com. November 22, 2004.

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• Every film has to be the next something else; originality isn't celebrated because you can't market it.

  Nick Moran

  Next, Film

  "Home entertainment" by Nick Moran, www.theguardian.com. June 14, 2001.

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• We should imitate the great classics. We would miss, and that miss would be our originality.

  Raymond Radiguet

  Writing, Missing, Would Be

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• Labeled fools to the world are geniuses to the cosmos.

  Criss Jami

  Cosmos, Genius, World

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.98, Criss Jami

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• If you make a show of going against the times, flaunting your unconventional ideas and unorthodox way, people will think that you only want attention and that you look down upon them.They will find away to punish you for making them feel inferior. It is far safer to blend in and nurture the common touch. Share your originality only with tolerant friends and those who are sure to appreciate your uniqueness.

  Robert Greene

  Thinking, Ideas, People

  "The 48 Laws Of Power". Book by Robert Greene, 2010.

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• A designer…has the true responsibility to give his audiences not what they think they want, for this is almost invariably the usual, the accustomed, the obvious, and hence, the unspontaneous.  Rather, he should provide that quality of thought and intuition which rejects the ineffectual commonplace for effectual originality.

  Lester Beall

  Responsibility, Thinking, Giving

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• Like the theater, offering food and hospitality to people is a matter of showmanship, and no matter how simple the performance, unless you do it well, with love and originality, you have a flop on your hands.

  James Beard

  Simple, Offering, Hands

  James Beard (2015). “Delights and Prejudices”, p.212, Open Road Media

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• If we were to all sit in a circle and confess our sins, we would laugh at each other for lack of originality.

  Khalil Gibran

  Circles, Laughing, Relaxation

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• Today many American corporations spend a great deal of money and time trying to increase the originality of their employees, hoping thereby to get a competitive edge in the marketplace. But such programs make no difference unless management also learns to recognize the valuable ideas among the many novel ones, and then finds ways of implementing them.

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

  Ideas, Differences, Empowerment

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (2009). “Creativity: Flow and the Psychology of Discovery and”, p.31, Harper Collins

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• My originality consists in putting the logic of the visible to the service of the invisible.

  Odilon Redon

  Logic, Invisible, Visible

  Odilon Redon, Pablo Picasso, Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.) (1952). “Redon, drawings and lithographs: Museum of Modern Art, N.Y., [Feb. 14-April 20, 1952]”

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• Hip hop is expression..our roots and culture..Its your duty to contribute uniqueness to this artform. Desire of bringing somethin new, improved, witty and soul touching is what bein an m.c. is all about. I wanted my intelligence to be heard in my lyrics..I wanted the pain to be felt...and the happiness i encountered. Bein an m.c. takes originality, style, imagination, delivery, intelligence and presence.

  Larry Bakersfield

  Witty, Pain, Expression

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• Originality is something that is easily exaggerated, especially by authors contemplating their own work.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Contemplating, Exaggerated

  John Kenneth Galbraith (1998). “The Affluent Society”, p.16, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I haven't come across any recent new ideas in film that strike me as being particularly important and that have to do with form. I think that a preoccupation with originality of form is more or less a fruitless thing. A truly original person with a truly original mind will not be able to function in the old form and will simply do something different. Others had much better think of the form as being some sort of classical tradition and try to work within it.

  Stanley Kubrick

  Thinking, Ideas, Mind

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• It may be conceit, but I believe the subject will interest the public, and I am sure that the views are original.

  Charles Darwin

  Believe, Science, Views

  Charles Darwin, Francis Darwin (1958). “Autobiography and Selected Letters”, p.211, Courier Corporation

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