Originality Quotes - Page 9

• Select only things to steal from that speak directly to your soul.

  Jim Jarmusch

  Soul, Film Music, Bodies Of Water

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• It's been very important throughout my career that I've met all the guys I've copied, because at each stage they've said, 'Don't play like me, play like you.'

  Eric Clapton

  Funny, Inspiring, Leadership

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• Just keep thinking about the good side of ADD - the creativity and the originality it can stimulate.

  David Neeleman

  Creativity, Thinking, Add

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• originality and a feeling of one's own dignity are achieved only through work and struggle.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Self Esteem, Struggle, Adversity

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• Well, the way I play, I try not to be a 'repeater pencil', ya dig? Originality's the thing. You can have tone and technique and a lot of other things but without originality you ain't really nowhere. Gotta be original.

  Lester Young

  Music, Play, Trying

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• Schools teach you to imitate. If you don't imitate what the teacher wants you get a bad grade. Here, in college, it was more sophisticated, of course; you were supposed to imitate the teacher in such a way as to convince the teacher you were not imitating, but taking the essence of the instruction and going ahead with it on your own. That got you A's. Originality on the other hand could get you anything -- from A to F. The whole grading system cautioned against it.

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Education, Teacher, School

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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.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  School, Men, Agency

  Arthur Conan Doyle, General Press (2016). “The Complete Sherlock Holmes: All 56 Stories & 4 Novels”, p.187, GENERAL PRESS

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• Then she waited, with parted lips and a saucy challenge in her eyes, to see how her presence -- the drama of being her -- was registering. In the way of such chicks, she seemed convinced of the originality of her provocation.

  Jonathan Franzen

  Drama, Eye, Challenges

  Jonathan Franzen (2010). “Freedom: A Novel”, p.194, Macmillan

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• The observations and encounters of a solitary, taciturn man are vaguer and at the same times more intense than those of a sociable man; his thoughts are deeper, odder and never without a touch of sadness. Images and perceptions that could be dismissed with a glance, a laugh, an exchange of opinions, occupy him unduly, become more intense in the silence, become significant, become an experience, an adventure, an emotion. Solitude produces originality, bold and astonishing beauty, poetry. But solitude also produces perverseness, the disproportionate, the absurd and the forbidden.

  Thomas Mann

  Adventure, Sadness, Men

  Thomas Mann (2012). “Death in Venice & A Man and His Dog: A Dual-Language Book”, p.101, Courier Corporation

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• John Stowell plays jazz, but he doesn’t use any of the clichés; he has an incredible originality. John is a master creator.

  Larry Coryell

  Play, Use, Jazz

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• The term "rational" and its variants (rationality, rationalism) are used in a lot of contexts in economic debate, both positively and negatively, but nearly always sloppily or dishonestly. A specimen I've seen on more occasions than I can count is the line (usually presented with a sense of witty originality) "if you are opposed to economic rationalism, you must be in favor of economic irrationalism"... I've come to the conclusion that the word "rational" has no meaning that cannot better be conveyed by some alternative term and that the best advice is probably to avoid it altogether.

  John Quiggin

  Witty, Advice, Alternatives

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• Schools stifle family originality by appropriating the critical time needed for any sound idea of family to develop - then they blame the family for its failure to be a family.

  John Taylor Gatto

  School, Ideas, Sound

  John Taylor Gatto, Thomas Moore (2013). “Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling”, p.51, New Society Publishers

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• Most of my cliches aren't original.

  Chuck Knox

  Stupid, Nfl, Cliche

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• In the expression of the emotions, originality merits the first consideration... The words used, however, should be old ones.

  Fujiwara no Teika

  Expression, Firsts, Merit

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• Boredom is useful to me when I notice it and think: Oh I'm bored; there must be something else I want to be doing... boredom acts as an initiator of originality by pushing me into new activities or new thoughts.

  Hugh Prather

  Thinking, Boredom, Want

  Hugh Prather (1983). “Notes to Myself”, Bantam

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• Originality is only variation.

  Holbrook Jackson

  Variation

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• Without criticism of Islam, Islam will remain unassailed in its dogmatic, fanatical, medieval fortress; ossified, totalitarian and intolerant. It will continue to stifle thought, human rights, individuality, originality and truth.

  Wafa Sultan

  Rights, Individuality, Islam

  Source: www.ruthfullyyours.com

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• Individuality and originality is was separates good and great artists! How much they can move people with what they do! If they can shake the heart with what they do, is the key!

  Hiromi

  Moving, Heart, Artist

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• People who take the time to be alone usually have depth, originality, and quiet reserve.

  John Miller

  Wisdom, People, Solitude

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• Lack of originality, everywhere, all over the world, from time immemorial, has always been considered the foremost quality and the recommendation of the active, efficient and practical man.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Men, Nihilism, Quality

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2012). “The Idiot (Vintage Classics)”, p.326, Vintage

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• High culture is nothing but a child of that European perversion called history, the obsession we have with going forward, with considering the sequence of generations a relay race in which everyone surpasses his predecessor, only to be surpassed by his successor. Without this relay race called history there would be no European art and what characterizes it: a longing for originality, a longing for change. Robespierre, Napoleon, Beethoven, Stalin, Picasso, they're all runners in the relay race, they all belong to the same stadium.

  Milan Kundera

  Art, Children, Race

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• Geniuses can be scintillating and geniuses can be somber, but it's that inescapable sorrowful depth that shines through-originality.

  Jack Kerouac

  Writing, Shining, Genius

  Jack Kerouac, Ann Charters (1995). “The portable Jack Kerouac”, Penguin Group USA

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• Take here the grand secret; if not of pleasing all, yet of displeasing none, and court mediocrity, avoid originality, and sacrifice to fashion.

  Johann Kaspar Lavater

  Fashion, Sacrifice, Clothes

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• To succeed, it is necessary to accept the world as it is and rise above it.

  Michael Korda

  Success, Failure, Acceptance

  "Success!". Book by Michael Korda, 1977.

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• [Six principles that make for a good story:] 1. Absence of lengthy verbiage of a political-social-economic nature; 2. total objectivity; 3. truthful descriptions of persons and objects; 4. extreme brevity; 5. audacity and originality: flee the stereotype; 6. compassion.

  Anton Chekhov

  Compassion, Objectivity, Political

  "Love in the Time of Numbness; or, Doctor Chekhov, Writer" by Siddhartha Mukherjee, www.newyorker.com. April 11, 2017.

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