Quotes with originality

  • Be original. That's my best advice. You're going to find that there's something that you do well, and try to do it with as much originality as you can, and don't skimp on the words. Work on the words.
  • Originality begins in our reaction to the necessary events of life, to things that come up hard against us.
  • Millions of men have lived to fight, build palaces and boundaries, shape destinies and societies; but the compelling force of all times has been the force of originality and creation profoundly affecting the roots of human spirit.

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  • John Stuart Mill All good things which exist are the fruits of originality.
    John Stuart Mill
    English economist (1806 - 1873)
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  • George Bernard Shaw A man of great common sense and good taste - meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Josh Billings About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgment.
    Josh Billings
    American humorist (1818 - 1885)
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  • John Stuart Mill All good things which exist are the fruits of originality.
    John Stuart Mill
    English economist (1806 - 1873)
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  • Bob Seger Be original. That's my best advice. You're going to find that there's something that you do well, and try to do it with as much originality as you can, and don't skimp on the words. Work on the words.
    Bob Seger
    American singer, songwriter and musician (1945 - )
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  • Antoni Gaudi Because of this, originality consists in returning to the origin.
    Antoni Gaudi
    Catalan architect
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  • Herman Melville But it is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.
    Herman Melville
    American author (1819 - 1891)
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  • Dan Cruickshank By Modernism I mean the positive rejection of the past and the blind belief in the process of change, in novelty for its own sake, in the idea that progress through time equates with cultural progress; in the cult of individuality, originality and self-expression.
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  • C. S. Lewis Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.
    A Year with C. S. Lewis
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • Charles Lamb He has left off reading altogether, to the great improvement of his originality.
    Charles Lamb
    English essayist (1775 - 1834)
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  • Burt Lancaster I always try to improve, to find new ways of expressing myself, to keep looking for truth and originality.
    Burt Lancaster
    American actor and producer (1913 - 1994)
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  • Mary McCarthy It has to be acknowledged that in capitalist society, with its herds of hippies, originality has become a sort of fringe benefit, a mere convention, accepted obsolescence, the Beatnik model being turned in for the Hippie model, as though strangely obedient to capitalist laws of marketing.
    Mary McCarthy
    American author (1912 - 1989)
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  • Henry Louis Mencken It is impossible to think of a man of any actual force and originality, universally recognized as having those qualities, who spent his whole life appraising and describing the work of other men.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • Ansel Adams Millions of men have lived to fight, build palaces and boundaries, shape destinies and societies; but the compelling force of all times has been the force of originality and creation profoundly affecting the roots of human spirit.
    Ansel Adams
    American landscape photographer and environmentalist (1902 - 1984)
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  • Charles Baudelaire Nearly all our originality comes from the stamp that time impresses upon our sensibility.
    Charles Baudelaire
    French poet (1821 - 1867)
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  • Charles Horton Cooley Originality begins in our reaction to the necessary events of life, to things that come up hard against us.
    Life and the student
    Charles Horton Cooley
    American sociologist (1864 - 1929)
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  • Anthony Storr Originality implies being bold enough to go beyond accepted norms.
    Anthony Storr
    English psychiatrist and author
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  • Isaac Bashevis Singer Originality is not seen in single words or even in sentences. Originality is the sum total of a man's thinking or his writing.
    Isaac Bashevis Singer
    Polish Yiddish writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1978) (1902 - 1991)
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  • Voltaire Originality is nothing but judicious plagiarism.
    Voltaire
    French writer and philosopher (ps. of Fran ois Marie Arouet) (1694 - 1778)
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  • Jim Carrey Originality is really important.
    Jim Carrey
    Canadian-American actor, comedian, impressionist and screenwriter (1962 - )
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