Originality Quotes - Page 3

• A person with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Success, Good Life

  1897 Following the Equator, ch.32.

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• Originality is unexplored territory. You get there by carrying a canoe - you can't take a taxi.

  Alan Alda

  Inspirational, Genius, Territory

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• Begin with another's to end with your own.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Creativity, Ends

  Baltasar Gracian (2006). “The Art of Worldly Wisdom”, p.58, Shambhala Publications

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• Originality depends only on the character of the drawing and the vision peculiar to each artist.

  Georges Seurat

  Art, Character, Drawing

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• A man of great common sense and good taste - meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Courage, Men, Common Sense

  Notes to Caesar and Cleopatra (1901) "Julius Caesar"

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• Originality implies being bold enough to go beyond accepted norms.

  Anthony Storr

  Enough, Accepted, Norm

  Anthony Storr (2015). “Solitude a Return to the Self”, p.81, Simon and Schuster

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• Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it.

  Laurence J. Peter

  Funny, Positive, Witty

  "Peter's Quotations: Ideas for Our Time". Book by Laurence J. Peter, p. 362, 1977.

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• Original thought is like original sin: both happened before you were born to people you could not have possibly met.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Women, People, Original Thought

  FaceBook post by Fran Lebowitz from Jan 14, 2011

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• Originality is the one thing which unoriginal minds cannot feel the use of.

  John Stuart Mill

  Mind, Use, Feels

  John Stuart Mill (2015). “On Liberty, Utilitarianism and Other Essays”, p.64, OUP Oxford

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  Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

  Franz Kafka

  Inspiring, Freedom, Autism

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• All good things which exist are the fruits of originality.

  John Stuart Mill

  Positive Thinking, Fruit, Good Things

  'On Liberty' (1859) ch. 3

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• What is originality? Undetected plagiarism.

  William Ralph Inge

  Funny, Creativity, Plagiarism

  William Ralph Inge (1929). “Assessments and Anticipations”, Cassell

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• What the world calls originality is only an unaccustomed method of tickling it.

  George Bernard Shaw

  World, Tickling, Method

  George Bernard Shaw (2016). “The Critical Shaw: On Literature”, p.157, RosettaBooks

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• People should think things out fresh and not just accept conventional terms and the conventional way of doing things.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Creativity, Apology, Thinking

  "The Peter Plan: A Proposal for Survival". Book by Laurence J. Peter, 1977.

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• To be the authentic is to be detached and stand aside from oneself and the work so that the working process can take on an untrammeled life of its own. Labored self-involvement, contrivance, ulterior motives, even the extraordinary facility that one may have, must be let go.

  Joshua L. Goldberg

  Letting Go, Self, May

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• What I have to do is utilize as best I can the ideas which objects suggest to me, connect, fuse, and color in my way the shadows they cast within me, illumine them from the inside. And since of necessity my vision is quite different from that of the next man, my painting will interpret things in an entirely different manner even though it makes use of the same elements.

  Pablo Picasso

  Men, Color, Ideas

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• In exploring new and doubtful tracts of speculation, the mind strikes out true and original views; as a drop of water hesitates at first what direction it will take, but afterwards follows its own course.

  William Hazlitt

  Views, Water, Mind

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.2095, Delphi Classics

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• U2 is an original species... there are colours and feelings and emotional terrain that we occupy that is ours and ours alone.

  Bono

  Emotional, Feelings, Colour

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• Real art, like the wife of an affectionate husband, needs no ornaments. But counterfeit art, like a prostitute, must always be decked out. The cause of production of real art is the artist's inner need to express a feeling that has accumulated...The cause of counterfeit art, as of prostitution, is gain. The consequence of true art is the introduction of a new feeling into the intercourse of life... The consequences of counterfeit art are the perversion of man, pleasure which never satisfies, and the weakening of man's spiritual strength.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Spiritual, Art, Husband

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• It takes a courageous fool to say things that have not been said and to do things that have not been done.

  Criss Jami

  Done, Fool, Courageous

  Criss Jami (2012). “Venus in Arms”, p.15, Criss Jami

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• The original insight is most likely to come when elements stored in different compartments of the mind drift into the open, jostle one another, and now and then form new combinations.

  Eric Hoffer

  Mind, Different, Elements

  Eric Hoffer (1963). “The Ordeal of Change”

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• What nerve. Not even a modicum of originality.

  Samuel Goldwyn

  Nerves

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• When I came up, it was all about originality and collective research. There is an awful lot of imitation going on now.

  Steve Lacy

  Research, Awful, Imitation

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• Anyone who attempts anything original in the world must expect a bit of ridicule.

  Alberto Juantorena

  World, Ridicule, Bits

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• I'll develop my own image. I'm an original man. A one and only. I just need some help.

  Sam Shepard

  Men, Needs, Helping

  Sam Shepard (1997). “Plays”

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