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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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