Being Original Quotes

• Always be a first-rate version of yourself.

  Audrey Hepburn

  Inspirational, Graduation, Bullying

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

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• Be what you are. This is the first step toward becoming better than you are.

  Julius Charles Hare

  Inspiring, Being Yourself, Inspiration

  Julius Charles Hare, Augustus William Hare (1861). “Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers: From the Fifth London Ed”, p.486

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• One essential ingredient for being an original in the day of copies is courageous vision.

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Vision, Essentials, Ingredients

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  Nothing of me is original. I am the combined effort of everyone I've ever known.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Inspiring, Effort, Inspire

  "Invisible Monsters". Book by Chuck Palahniuk, September, 1999.

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  Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.

  Judy Garland

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "Business Etiquette for the Nineties: Your Ticket to Career Success". Book by Lou Kennedy, 1992.

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• We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others that in the end we become disguised to ourselves.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Im Sorry, Being Yourself, Work

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• If you do not express your own original ideas, if you do not listen to your own being, you will have betrayed yourself.

  Rollo May

  Depression, Ideas, Creating

  Rollo May (1994). “The Courage to Create”, p.12, W. W. Norton & Company

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• I find that the very things that I get criticized for, which is usually being different and just doing my own thing and just being original, is the very thing that's making me successful.

  Shania Twain

  Successful, Being Different, Just Being

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

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• Select only things to steal that speak directly to your soul. If you do this, your work (and theft) will be authentic. Authenticity is invaluable; originality is nonexistent

  Jim Jarmusch

  Soul, Bodies Of Water, Film Music

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• Nothing is original. Steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration or fuels your imagination.

  Jim Jarmusch

  Inspiration, Stealing Things, Imagination

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• You don't get on by being original. You don't get on by being bright. You don't get on by being strong. You get on by being a subtle crook.

  Hilary Mantel

  Strong, Crooks, Subtle

  Hilary Mantel (2012). “Wolf Hall & Bring Up The Bodies: Two-Book Edition”, p.59, HarperCollins UK

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• I always took a great deal of pride in being original.

  Roger Miller

  Pride, Originality, Deals

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• The most exhausting thing in life is being insincere.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Life, Being Yourself, Just Being

  "Gift from the Sea". Book by Anne Morrow Lindbergh. Chapter 2, 1955.

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• Originality is a thing we constantly clamour for, and constantly quarrel with.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Funny Basketball, Originality, Clamour

  Thomas Carlyle, Henry Duff Traill (2010). “The Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.11, Cambridge University Press

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• I really think that being yourself, being original, being outside the box is starting to be appealing to people.

  Miranda Lambert

  Being Yourself, Thinking, People

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• 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.

  C. S. Lewis

  Art, Truth, Creativity

  C. S. Lewis (2009). “Virtue and Vice: A Dictionary of the Good Life”, p.12, Harper Collins

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• Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new at all.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Workout, Book, New Relationship

  Abraham Lincoln (1999). “The Wit & Wisdom of Abraham Lincoln: A Treasury of Quotations, Anecdotes, and Observations”, Gramercy

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• Steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration or fuels your imagination. Devour old films, new films, music, books, paintings, photographs, poems, dreams, random conversations, architecture, bridges, street signs, trees, clouds, bodies of water, light and shadows. Select only things to steal from that speak directly to your soul. If you do this, your work (and theft) will be authentic.

  Jim Jarmusch

  Inspirational, Music, Dream

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

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• Once conform, once do what others do because they do it, and a kind of lethargy steals over all the finer senses of the soul.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Inspirational, Being Yourself, Freedom

  Attributed to "Essais" by Michel de Montaigne, 1595.

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• We are not in the business of being original. We are in the business of reusing things that work.

  Robert W. Bly

  Originals

  Robert W. Bly (2007). “The Copywriter's Handbook: A Step-By-Step Guide To Writing Copy That Sells”, p.39, Holt Paperbacks

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• Pretension almost always overdoes the original, and hence exposes itself.

  Hosea Ballou

  Pretension, Originals

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• If being original means having to throw paint in front of a jet turbine to hit a canvas 50 ft away then lets not be original.

  Shepard Fairey

  Mean, Canvas, Paint

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• The masses have no habit of self-reliance or original action.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Self, Action, Habit

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• I've always been obsessed with drums. They fascinate me. Any other instrument - nothing. I play acoustic guitar a bit. But it's always been drums first and foremost. I don't reckon on this Jack-of-all-trades thing. I thing that felling is a lot more important than technique. It's all very well doing a triple paradiddle - but who's going to know you've done it? If you play technically you sound like everybody else. It's being original that counts.

  John Bonham

  Guitar, Play, Important

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• The beauty of ideas is that they are like waves in the ocean and they connect with things that came before them, and I think it is very important to embrace things that interest you and influence you, and incorporate them into what you do, as all artists have always done. The ones that say they don’t, are lying. Or are afraid that their work won’t be seen as being original, somehow.

  Jim Jarmusch

  Lying, Ocean, Artist

  "Jim Jarmusch On the Future of Independent Film: ‘Cinema needs to be reduced to its essential poetry’". Interview with Chris Patmore, www.indiewire.com. April 08, 2014.

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