Originality Quotes - Page 22

• What a newspaper needs in its news, in its headlines, and on its editorial page is terseness, humor, descriptive power, satire, originality, good literary style, clever condensation and accuracy, accuracy, accuracy.

  Joseph Pulitzer

  Clever, Style, Needs

  c.1910 Quoted in Alleyne Ireland An Adventure with a Genius, ch.4.

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• While an original is always hard to find, he is easy to recognize.

  John Landis Mason

  Character, Easy, Originals

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• With its claims to profundity, boldness and originality, thinking still limits itself provisionally to the exclusively rational and scientific. ... As soon as it lays hold of the feelings, it becomes spirit.

  Robert Musil

  Thinking, Feelings, Limits

  Robert Musil, Burton Pike, David S. Luft (1995). “Precision and Soul: Essays and Addresses”, p.43, University of Chicago Press

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• We are the ORIGIN of our art, its homeland. Viewed this way, ORIGINALITY is the process of remaining true to ourselves.

  Julia Cameron

  Art, Way, Process

  Julia Cameron (2002). “The Artist's Way: 25th Anniversary Edition”, p.218, Penguin

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• Of course, there are hundreds of novels and authors that have influenced me. But to choose three, they are: Stephen King/The Stand (and really most of his books); Anne Rice/The Witching Hour; and Pat Conroy/The Prince of Tides. These authors write my favorite kind of book - epic feel, gorgeous prose, unique characters, and a pace that keeps you turning the pages. From them, I learned a lot about characterization, pacing, prose, voice, and originality.

  Megan Chance

  Kings, Book, Character

  Source: www.omnivoracious.com

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• Real people conceive originality then think, write but never read of others' posts to copy to follow and the copycats follow exactly the opposite direction i.e. read of others' posts, write but never think and conceive originality.

  Anuj

  Real, Writing, Thinking

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• Of course quality is important but is it not the quality of an individual's originality that is most important?

  Robert Owen

  Important, Quality, Individual

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• Originality is another criterion of aesthetic value. We may formulate an originality principle, according to which highly valuable works of art provide hitherto unavailable insights.... Notice that, although originality is a necessary condition of high aesthetic value, it is far from a sufficient condition. Many original works have little or no aesthetic value. An artwork may present a novel but uninteresting perspective, or one that is original but wrong.

  James Young

  Art, Perspective, Principles

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• Following Korzybski, I put things in probabilities, not absolutes... My only originality lies in applying this zetetic attitude outside the hardest of the hard sciences, physics, to softer sciences and then to non-sciences like politics, ideology, jury verdicts and, of course, conspiracy theory.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Attitude, Lying, Physics

  High Times Interview, 2003.

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• The cleverly expressed opposite of any generally accepted idea is worth a fortune to somebody.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Inspirational, Opposites, Ideas

  F.scott fitzgerald (1969). “the last tycon”

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• It has to be acknowledged that in capitalist society, with its herds of hippies, originality has become a sort of fringe benefit, a mere convention, accepted obsolescence, the Beatnik model being turned in for the Hippie model, as though strangely obedient to capitalist laws of marketing.

  Mary McCarthy

  Hippie, Law, Marketing

  Mary McCarthy (1968). “Hanoi”, George Weidenfeld & Nicholson

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• Our schools offer no conception of the scientific process of discovery. They do not encourage creative thought, in fact, they stifle it through too much rigidity in teaching. If we set out to give as little help as possible to originality in science, we could hardly devise a better plan than our education system. Youngsters ought to be told what is unknown about ourselves and our universe as well as what is known.

  William Lipscomb

  Teaching, School, Ignorance

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• The only way to grab the attention of the audience is originality. We feed ourselves with franchises that's the opposite of what makes our culture multidimensional and interesting.

  Ron Perlman

  Opposites, Interesting, Culture

  Source: variety.com

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• I admire anyone who can come up with something original. But not originality alone, because there can be originality in stupidity, with no musical description of any emotion or any beauty the man has seen, or any kind of life he has lived.

  Charles Mingus

  Men, Stupidity, Musical

  "What Is A Jazz Composer?". Charles Mingus' liner notes for "Let My Children Hear Music", album composed by Charles Mingus, January/February 1972.

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• All effort at originality must end either in the quaint or the monstrous. For no man knows himself as an original; he can only believe it on the report of others.

  Washington Allston

  Believe, Men, Effort

  Washington Allston, Richard Henry Dana (1850). “Lectures on Art, and Poems”, p.174, Scholarly Pub Office Univ of

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• The authentic rebel knows that the silencing of all his adversaries is the last thing on earth he wishes: their extermination would deprive him and whoever else remains alive from the uniqueness, the originality, and the capacity for insight that these enemies being human also have and could share with him. If we wish the death of our enemies, we cannot talk about the community of man. In the losing of the chance for dialogue with our enemies, we are the poorer.

  Rollo May

  Men, Community, Enemy

  Rollo May (1998). “Power and Innocence: A Search for the Sources of Violence”, p.237, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Our novice runs the risk of failure without additional traits: a strong inclination toward originality, a taste for research, and a desire to experience the incomparable gratification associated with the act of discovery itself.

  Santiago Ramon y Cajal

  Running, Strong, Science

  Santiago Ramón y Cajal (2004). “Advice for a Young Investigator”, p.48, MIT Press

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• Frederick Turner comes across in his poems as a man of impressively broad experience, intellectual brilliance, and originality. … He’s at his best when he unleashes his extraordinary powers of observation.

  Richard Tillinghast

  Men, Intellectual, Broads

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• The qualities in music which I considered most important - and still do - were beauty, simplicity, originality, discrimination, and sincerity.

  Paul Desmond

  Music, Simplicity, Important

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• Whatever goal, man has reached is due to his originality plus his brutality

  Adolf Hitler

  Military, Men, Goal

  Adolf Hitler (1944). “Hitler's Words”

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• He travels the fastest who travels alone.

  Rudyard Kipling

  Travel, Traveling Alone, Conformity

  The Story of the Gadsbys (1890) "L'Envoi"

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• Talent is a long patience, and originality an effort of will and intense observation.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Patience, Long, Effort

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• The multitude is always in the wrong.

  Paulo Freire

  Conformity, Multitudes

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• To vest a few fallible men — prosecutors, judges, jurors — with vast powers of literary or artistic censorship, to convert them into what J. S. Mill called a "moral police," is to make them despotic arbiters of literary products. If one day they ban mediocre books as obscene, another day they may do likewise to a work of genius.

  Jerome Frank

  Book, Eye, Writing

  "A man's reach: the philosophy of Judge Jerome Frank".

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• What is it we value? Innovation. Originality. Novelty. But most importantly...timeliness. I fear you may be too late, my confused, unfortunate, friend.

  Brandon Sanderson

  Confused, Innovation, Too Late

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