Originality Quotes

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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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• Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else.

  Margaret Mead

  Inspirational, Funny, Inspiring

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  It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.

  Herman Melville

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Herman Melville, Harrison Hayford, G. Thomas Tanselle (1987). “Piazza Tales and Other Prose Pieces, 1839-1860: Volume Nine, Scholarly Edition”, p.247, Northwestern University Press

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• You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Inspirational, Life, Bullying

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

  David Packer

  Design, Contribution, Emulate

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• Originality is simply a pair of fresh eyes.

  Thomas Wentworth Higginson

  Eye, Creating, Pairs

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• Insist upon yourself. Be original.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Creating, Funny Basketball, Originals

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• Originality is the art of concealing your sources.

  Franklin P. Jones

  Art, Source, Concealing

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• The principal mark of genius is not perfection, but originality.

  Robert Schumann

  Perfection, Genius, Mark

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• Do your work, but do your thing.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Work, Purpose, Funny Basketball

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• What is valuable is not new, and what is new is not valuable.

  Daniel Webster

  Novelty, Valuable

  Daniel Webster (1851). “The Works”, p.433

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• The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Innovation, Insightful, Novelty

  Thomas Carlyle (1840). “Works”, p.116

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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.

  Constantin Stanislavski

  Break Up, Tradition, Breaking Promises

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• The principle mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.

  Arthur Koestler

  Carpe Diem, Perfection, Principles

  Arthur Koestler (1964). “The Act of Creation”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

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• 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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• 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

  Life, Writing, Men

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• True originality consists not in a new manner but in a new vision.

  Edith Wharton

  Vision, Literature, New Vision

  Edith Wharton (2014). “The Writing of Fiction”, p.17, Simon and Schuster

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• The more original a discovery, the more obvious it seems afterwards.

  Arthur Koestler

  Inspirational, Education, Business

  Arthur Koestler (1964). “The Act of Creation”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

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• Be yourself. The world worships the original.

  Ingrid Bergman

  Beauty, Being Yourself, Acceptance

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

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• The more intelligent a man is, the more originality he discovers in others.

  Blaise Pascal

  Intelligent, Men

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

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Success, Motivational Sports, Bodybuilding

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• The secret of all effective originality in advertising is not the creation of new and tricky words and pictures, but one of putting familiar words and pictures into new relationships.

  Leo Burnett

  New Relationship, Design, Secret

  Leo Burnett (1961). “Communications of an Advertising Man: Selections from the Speeches, Articles, Memoranda, and Miscellaneous Writings of Leo Burnett”

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• Originality is the essence of true scholarship. Creativity is the soul of the true scholar.

  Nnamdi Azikiwe

  Creativity, Essence, Soul

  Nnamdi Azikiwe “ZIK A SELECTION FROM THE SPEECHES OF NNAMDI AZIKIWE Governor-General of the Federation of Nigeria formerly President of the Nigerian Senate formerly Premier of the Eastern Region of Nigeria”, CUP Archive

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• Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality.

  Beatrix Potter

  Education, Memorable, Learning

  Beatrix Potter (2005). “Beatrix Potter: Artist & Illustrator”, Frederick Warne Publishers

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