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Our purity lies in our originality. Our intuition lies in our innocence. — Harbhajan Singh Yogi

All thoughtful men are solitary and original in themselves. — James Russell Lowell

About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgment. — Josh Billings

Originality implies being bold enough to go beyond accepted norms. — Anthony Storr

Creativity is easy.
Originality is difficult.
Relevance is a bitch. — Mark Rude

The bad teacher imposes his ideas and his methods on his pupils, and such originality as they may have is lost in the second-rate art of imitation. — Stephen Neill

Originality is, for me, the most important quality in a script. — Douglas Wood

Style is originality; fashion is fascism. The two are eternally and unalterably opposed. — Lester Bangs

Having to be different is the same trap as having to be the same. — Robert Rauschenberg

The new is a guest in the house of the old. — Marty Rubin

Originality is a myth perpetuated by the naive, the romantic, and the unscrupulous. — Tom Robbins

Be original, give people a chance to love you for being you. — Tina J. Richardson

Nearly all our originality comes from the stamp that time impresses upon our sensibility. — Charles Baudelaire

It is not commercial success but originality and proof of autonomy which are admired. — Angela Phillips

Great men are more distinguished by range and extent than by originality. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Our ancestors have invented, we can at least innovate. — Amit Kalantri

Originality is the best form of rebellion. — Mike Sasso

Originality is only variation. — Holbrook Jackson

The greater intellect one has, the more originality one finds in men. Ordinary persons find no difference between men. — Blaise Pascal

Originality is not writing the story that has never been told, but writing the stories only you can tell. — M. Kirin

Originality is for people with short memories — Grayson Perry

When you release the illusion of control, you begin an effortless free-fall toward a grand reunion with your original self. — Bryant McGill

The hallmark of originality is rejecting the default and exploring whether a better option exists. I've — Adam M. Grant

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

A good imitation is the most perfect originality — Voltaire

Originality is taking the road less traveled, championing a set of novel ideas that go against the grain but ultimately make things better. Of — Adam M. Grant

The merit of originality is not novelty, it is sincerity. The believing man is the original man. — Thomas Carlyle

Pampered content is a public resignation of artistic integrity. — Kevin Focke

People lack originality. — Charles Bukowski

Everything that glitters more than gold is not gold. — Raheel Farooq

Perfectionism is the satin-lined casket of creativity and originality. If — Augusten Burroughs

Originality of mind untainted,
And enthusiasm for life, unlimited. — Innocent Mwatsikesimbe

Only through immitation do we develop toward originality. — John Steinbeck

Creativity sparks originality which then manifests itself into what we call evolution. To depreciate imagination is to depreciate life. — Alecia Stone

If in many of my productions terror has been the thesis, I maintain that terror is not of Germany, but of the soul. — Edgar Allan Poe

Style; all who have it have have one thing: originality. — Diana Vreeland

Originality, of course, is what occurs when something new arises out of what's already been done. — Stephen Dunn

The unique must be fulfilled. — Martha Graham

Be yourself. An original is worth more than a copy. — Suzy Kassem

To be of value to humanity, start by thinking for yourself. — Suzy Kassem

Do not worry about your originality. You could not get rid of it even if you wanted to. — Robert Henri

People of different dispositions make the world go round. That's why it's insanity to try to be someone else. — Ufuoma Apoki

Imitation limits imaginations — Bernard Kelvin Clive

What we call originality is no more than ignorance of antecedents. — Dee Hock

Originality will be rewarded in any line. — Will Rogers

Every language has is a beauty, it has it's own uniqueness, it's own fascinating sounds that birth the originality of human being. — Euginia Herlihy

All my originality consists?in giving life in human fashion to beings which are impossible according to the laws of possibility. — Odilon Redon

Insanity is coasting through life in a miserable existence when you have a caged lion locked inside and the key to release it. — Morgan Freeman

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

Vanity is the fear of appearing original: it is thus a lack of pride, but not necessarily a lack of originality. — Friedrich Nietzsche

We often mistake the original part of ourselves for a weakness. — Mason Cooley

Without moving beyond a mere copy, there is no artistry, no originality or artistic advancement; only mechanics. — Jennifer Young

The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers. — Arthur Koestler

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

Any fool can do something cool and look cool, but it takes skill to make something uncool cool again. — Criss Jami

Imitation, if noble and general, insures the best hope of originality. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

The greatest shapers don't stop at introducing originality into the world. They create cultures that unleash originality in others. — Adam M. Grant

Nurture your
originality, don't ever bury it
away. — Alison G. Bailey

People took the word "clean" out of context. My mother had an expression: "clean as a whistle, sharp as a tack." I inherited her originality. — Joe Biden

A book written within, contains ideas and thoughts from all over, where each page explains itself. — Auliq Ice

To achieve originality we need to abandon the comforts of habit, reason, and the approval of our peers, and strike out in new directions. — Marty Neumeier

I really do not aim at any originality. — Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Whatever goal, man has reached is due to his originality plus his brutality — Adolf Hitler

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

All good things which exist are the fruits of originality. — John Stuart Mill

Originality, I fear, is too often only undetected and frequently unconscious plagiarism. — William Ralph Inge

Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself. — James Stephens

Originality is independence, not rebellion; it is sincerity, not antagonism. — George Henry Lewes

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

Originality is not doing something no one else has ever done, but doing what has been done countless times with new life, new breath. — Marie Chapian

What is the point of being on this Earth if you are going to be like everyone else? — Arnold Schwarzenegger

A facility for quotation covers the absence of original thought. — Dorothy L. Sayers

Originality depends only on the character of the drawing and the vision peculiar to each artist. — Georges Seurat

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

Those who say there are no more original ideas need to get out of the way of those of us who are creating them. — Steven Symes

To this day, no one has come up with a set of rules for originality. There aren't any. — Les Paul

The more intelligent a man is, the more originality he discovers in others. — Blaise Pascal

Literature is too full of 'acknowledgments' and squabbles about originality ... — George Bernard Shaw

Creativity is the art of concealing your sources. — Coco Chanel

Originality is being different from oneself, not others. — Philip Larkin

They say copying is a form of flattery, I say it's lack of originality. — Elizabeth Blade

I may be an echo only, but maybe I've created a new valley. — Garry Fitchett

Originality is dangerous. — Salman Rushdie

Originality is the most deadly mirage in all of art. You can chase it from now until doomsday, and you'll only find yourself lost and dying of thirst. — Caitlin R. Kiernan

Individuality is a shortcut to originality. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Originality brings more bumps in the road, yet it leaves us with more happiness and a greater sense of meaning. — Adam Grant

Originality is merely an illusion. — M.C. Escher

From thee, great God, we spring, to thee we tend,- Path, motive, guide, original, and end. — Samuel Johnson

Cerebration is the enemy of originality in art. — Martin Ritt

Originality is the art of concealing your source. — Someone

If you can persist your originality at every situation without masking your face, undoubtedly you are an achiever! — Nelson Jack

I thought I was clever enough to write as well as these people and I didn't realize that there is something called originality and your own voice. — Amy Tan

I would rather be a real Timex than a fake Rolex. — N.M. Silber

The greater your creativity, the greater your originality. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Originality is undetected plagiarism. — William Ralph Inge

Fashion is simply a guideline for style-less people to appear stylish. — Criss Jami

Should we all confess our sins to one another we would all laugh at one another for our lack of originality — Khalil Gibran

Do your work, but do your thing. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it. — Laurence J. Peter

Mockery is childish. It does not become you. — Veronica Roth