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• The will to originality is not the will to be peculiar and unlike anybody else; it means the desire to derive one's consciousness from its primary source.

  Nikolai Berdyaev

  Writing, Mean, Desire

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• The invention of IQ did a great disservice to creativity in education. ... Individuality, personality, originality, are too precious to be meddled with by amateur psychiatrists whose patterns for a "wholesome personality" are inevitably their own.

  Joel Henry Hildebrand

  Education, Creativity, Science

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• Regarding The Music Man, Jay Nordlinger wrote: The Music Man (for which Willson also wrote the lyrics) is an astonishing creation. It came in a spurt of brilliance. It is shot through with originality, verve, and-why not go all the way?-genius. People love it, can't get enough of it, can't stop performing it-and they are not wrong. For closing in on a half- century now, The Music Man has been performed continually, in every American city, town, and village, and in other parts of the world as well, not excluding Peking.

  Meredith Willson

  Men, Cities, People

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• If there's an original thought out there, I could use one right now.

  Bob Dylan

  Use, Original Thought, Right Now

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• Sometimes you have to be worn out and burnt out to become authentic and original.

  Michael Eisner

  Sometimes, Worn, Burnt Out

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• The majority of business men are not capable of an original thought, simply because they cannot escape the tyranny of reason.

  David Ogilvy

  Men, Majority, Original Thought

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• That was the very centre of his genius - he invented things that anyone could have thought of, and men who can invent things that anyone could have thought of are very rare men.

  Terry Pratchett

  Men, Genius, Centre

  Terry Pratchett (2016). “The Last Hero”, p.37, Hachette UK

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• A truly creative person rids him or herself of all self-imposed limitations.

  Gerald Jampolsky

  Inspirational Life, Creativity, Self

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• 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

  Smoking, New Life, Done

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• Creativity is the defeat of habit by imposing originality and change.

  Andy Law

  Creativity, Defeat, Habit

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• There is no such thing as group originality, group creativity or group perspicacity.

  Edwin Land

  Creativity, Individuality, Groups

  Edwin Herbert Land (1983). “Selected papers on industry”

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• Profundity and originality are attributes of single, if not singular, minds.

  Edwin Land

  Individuality, Mind, Attributes

  Edwin Herbert Land (1983). “Selected papers on industry”

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• Every man has a specific skill, whether it is discovered or not, that more readily and naturally comes to him than it would to another, and his own should be sought and polished. He excels best in his niche - originality loses its authenticity in one's efforts to obtain originality.

  Criss Jami

  Men, Skills, Effort

  Criss Jami (2011). “Salomé: In Every Inch in Every Mile”, p.133, Criss Jami

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• No one wants my painting because it is different from other people's peculiar, crazy public that demands the greatest possible degree of originality on the painter's part and yet won't accept him unless his work resembles that of the others!

  Paul Gauguin

  Crazy, People, Want

  Paul Gauguin (1978). “The writings of a savage”, Viking Adult

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• It may be expecting too much to expect most intellectuals to have common sense, when their whole life is based on their being uncommon -- that is, saying things that are different from what everyone else is saying. There is only so much genuine originality in anyone. After that, being uncommon means indulging in pointless eccentricities or clever attempts to mock or shock.

  Thomas Sowell

  Clever, Mean, Common Sense

  Thomas Sowell (2013). “Ever Wonder Why?: and Other Controversial Essays”, p.328, Hoover Press

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• originality" is everyone's aim, and novel techniques are as much prized as new scientific discoveries. [T.S.] Eliot states it with surprising naïveté: "It is exactly as wasteful for a poet to do what has been done already as for a biologist to rediscover Mendel's discoveries.

  Randall Jarrell

  Discovery, Done, Technique

  "Kipling, Auden & Co: Essays and Reviews 1935-1964". Book by Randall Jarrell, "The End of the Line" (pp. 79 - 80), 1980.

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• This sucks on so many levels." Dialogue from "Jason X" Rare for a movie to so frankly describe itself. "Jason X" sucks on the levels of storytelling, character development, suspense, special effects, originality, punctuation, neatness and aptness of thought.

  Roger Ebert

  Character, Special, Jason

  Roger Ebert (2004). “Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2005”, p.340, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• Pearl Harbor is a two-hour movie squeezed into three hours, about how on December 7, 1941, the Japanese staged a surprise attack on an American love triangle. Its centerpiece is 40 minutes of redundant special effects, surrounded by a love story of stunning banality. The film has been directed without grace, vision, or originality, and although you may walk out quoting lines of dialog, it will not be because you admire them.

  Roger Ebert

  Two, Grace, Vision

  "Pearl Harbor" by Roger Ebert, www.rogerebert.com. May 25, 2001.

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• Newton expected no money from establishing his originality but rather desired recognition for his excellence.

  Tyler Cowen

  Excellence, Recognition, Newton

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• Geniuses and prophets do not usually excel in professional learning, and their originality, if any, is often due precisely to the fact that they do not.

  Joseph A. Schumpeter

  Genius, Facts, Prophet

  Joseph A. Schumpeter (2013). “Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy”, p.21, Routledge

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• Every film has to be the next something else; originality isn't celebrated because you can't market it.

  Nick Moran

  Next, Film

  "Home entertainment" by Nick Moran, www.theguardian.com. June 14, 2001.

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• In this world, one thing you should definitely strive for is originality. Just be who you are, and be your own person. That's what will make you stand out.

  Nolan Gould

  Be Who You Are, World, Strive

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• Ignorance of the law of irreducibility was no excuse. I could no longer excuse myself with the claim that I didn't know the law -- for knowledge of self and of the world is the law that, even though unattainable, cannot be broken, and no one can excuse himself by saying that he doesn't know it. . . . The renewed originality of the sin is this: I have to carry out my unknowing, I shall be sinning originally against life.

  Clarice Lispector

  Ignorance, Self, Law

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• The most foolish of all errors is for clever young men to believe that they forfeit their originality in recognizing a truth which has already been recognized by others.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Truth, Clever, Believe

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• Imposing an alleged uniform general method upon everybody breeds mediocrity in all but the very exceptional. And measuring originality by deviation from the mass breeds eccentricity in them.

  John Dewey

  Mediocrity, Uniforms, Deviation

  John Dewey (2015). “Democracy and Education”, p.176, Sheba Blake Publishing

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