Motivational Quotes

Originality

Set me a task in which I can put something of my very self, and it is a task no longer. It is joy and art.

- Carman, Bliss

Best Quotes about Originality

But it is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.

Melville, Herman

The true is inimitable, the false untransformable.

Bresson, Robert

Make a technical contribution; innovate, don't emulate.

Packer, David

We are obliged to regard many of our original minds as crazy at least until we have become as clever as they are.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

When a work appears to be ahead of its time, it is only the time that is behind the work.

Cocteau, Jean

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.

Clapton, Eric

All cases are unique and very similar to others.

Eliot, T. S.

Let us not forget that the greatest composers were also the greatest thieves. They stole from everyone and everywhere.

Casals, Pablo

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

Lebowitz, Fran

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Everything has been said, and we have come too late, now that men have been living and thinking for seven thousand years and more.

Bruyere, Jean De La

11.

I invent nothing, I rediscover.

Rodin, Auguste

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Begin with another's to end with your own.

Gracian, Baltasar

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A man is original when he speaks the truth that has always been known to all good men.

Kavanagh, Patrick

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All profoundly original art looks ugly at first.

Greenberg, Clement

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It's easier to be original and foolish than original and wise.

Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm Von

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Set me a task in which I can put something of my very self, and it is a task no longer. It is joy and art.

Carman, Bliss

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No one can be profoundly original who does not avoid eccentricity.

Maurois, Andre

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People would rather be wrong than be different.

Jacobsen, Henry

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I see nothing in it new and valuable. What is valuable is not new, and what is new is not valuable.

Webster, Daniel

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Your manuscript is both good and original; but the parts that are good are not original, and the parts that are original are not good.

Johnson, Samuel

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Create your own method. Don't depend slavishly on mine. Make up something that will work for you! But keep breaking traditions, I beg you.

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

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The original is unfaithful to the translation.

Borges, Jorge Luis

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

Baudelaire, Charles

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When there is an original sound in the world, it makes a hundred echoes.

Shedd, John A.

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I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different.

Bennett, Tony

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The greatness of art is not to find what is common but what is unique.

Singer, Isaac Bashevis

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A society made up of individuals who were all capable of original thought would probably be unendurable.

Mencken, H. L.

28.

I found you essay to be good and original. However, the part that was original was not good and the part that was good was not original.

Johnson, Samuel

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The most original of authors are not so because they advance what is new, but more because they know how to say something, as if it had never been said before.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The more intelligent one is, the more men of originality one finds. Ordinary people find no difference between men.

Pascal, Blaise

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Originality is nothing but judicious plagiarism.

Voltaire

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

Mill, John Stuart

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Perhaps our originality manifests itself most strikingly in what we do with that which we did not originate. To discover something wholly new can be a matter of chance, of idle tinkering, or even of the chronic dissatisfaction of the untalented.

Hoffer, Eric

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To put away one's own original thoughts in order to take up a book is a sin against the Holy Ghost.

Tuchman, Barbara

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

Alda, Alan

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Originality consists in trying to be like everybody else --and failing.

Radiguet, Raymond