Originality Quotes - Page 17

• If we were to all sit in a circle and confess our sins, we would laugh at each other for lack of originality.

  Khalil Gibran

  Circles, Laughing, Relaxation

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• What is originality? To see something that has no name as yet and hence cannot be mentioned although it stares us all in the face. The way men usually are, it takes a name to make something visible for them.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Men, Names, Way

  The Gay Science bk. 3, sec. 261 (1882) (translation by Walter Kaufmann)

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• I haven't come across any recent new ideas in film that strike me as being particularly important and that have to do with form. I think that a preoccupation with originality of form is more or less a fruitless thing. A truly original person with a truly original mind will not be able to function in the old form and will simply do something different. Others had much better think of the form as being some sort of classical tradition and try to work within it.

  Stanley Kubrick

  Thinking, Ideas, Mind

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Today many American corporations spend a great deal of money and time trying to increase the originality of their employees, hoping thereby to get a competitive edge in the marketplace. But such programs make no difference unless management also learns to recognize the valuable ideas among the many novel ones, and then finds ways of implementing them.

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

  Ideas, Differences, Empowerment

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (2009). “Creativity: Flow and the Psychology of Discovery and”, p.31, Harper Collins

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• My originality consists in putting the logic of the visible to the service of the invisible.

  Odilon Redon

  Logic, Invisible, Visible

  Odilon Redon, Pablo Picasso, Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.) (1952). “Redon, drawings and lithographs: Museum of Modern Art, N.Y., [Feb. 14-April 20, 1952]”

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• It may be conceit, but I believe the subject will interest the public, and I am sure that the views are original.

  Charles Darwin

  Believe, Science, Views

  Charles Darwin, Francis Darwin (1958). “Autobiography and Selected Letters”, p.211, Courier Corporation

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• Style is originality; fashion is fascism. The two are eternally and unalterably opposed.

  Lester Bangs

  Fashion, Two, Style

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• Oratory is good only if it has the qualities of fitness for the occasion, propriety of style, and originality of treatment, while in the case of letters there is no such need whatsoever.

  Isocrates

  Style, Quality, Needs

  Isocrates (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Isocrates (Illustrated)”, p.274, Delphi Classics

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• Originality is something that is easily exaggerated, especially by authors contemplating their own work.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Contemplating, Exaggerated

  John Kenneth Galbraith (1998). “The Affluent Society”, p.16, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Dedication to quality, community, and originality without exception.

  Zach Klein

  Dedication, Community, Quality

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• Our lazy embrace of Stewart and Colbert is a testament to our own impoverished comic standards. We have come to accept coy mockery as genuine subversion and snarky mimesis as originality. It would be more accurate to describe our golden age of political comedy as the peak output of a lucrative corporate plantation whose chief export is a cheap and powerful opiate for progressive angst and rage.

  Steve Almond

  Powerful, Political, Lazy

  "The Joke’s on You" by Steve Almond, The Baffler, No. 20, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 19, 2012.

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• To achieve originality we need to abandon the comforts of habit, reason, and the approval of our peers, and strike out in new directions.

  Marty Neumeier

  Comfort, Needs, Peers

  Marty Neumeier (2005). “The Brand Gap, Revised Edition”, p.76, Peachpit Press

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• I advise everyone to find an island in this life. Find a place where this culture can't take energy away from you, sap your will and originality. Since anything physical can be mental, that island can be your home. Turn off the electromagnetic waves being forced upon you, the countless invisible forces coming at you all the time.

  RZA

  Inspirational, Life, Home

  The RZA (2009). “The Tao of Wu”, p.21, Penguin

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• Originality is a return to the origin.

  Antonio Gaudi

  Return

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• What tender and devoted mother wouldn't be dismayed and ill with terror at her son's or daughter's stepping even one hair's breath off the beaten track. No, better let him be happy and live in comfort without originality, is what every mother thinks when she rocks the cradle. The only person among us who can fail to reach the general's rank is the original man - in other words, the man who won't be quiet.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Daughter, Mother, Creativity

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• Now in creative thought common sense is a bad master. Its sole criterion for judgement is that the new ideas shall look like the old ones. In other words it can only work by suppressing originality.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Creativity, Ideas, Common Sense

  Alfred North Whitehead (1958). “An Introduction to Mathematics”, p.116, New York : Oxford University Press, 1958 [c1948]

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• Our purity lies in our originality. Our intuition lies in our innocence.

  Harbhajan Singh Yogi

  Inspirational, Lying, Bhajans

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• Every colonized people-in other words, every people in whose soul an inferiority complex has been created by the death and burial of its local cultural originality-finds itself face to face with the language of the civilizing nation; that is, with the culture of the mother country. The colonized is elevated above his jungle status in proportion to his adoption of the mother country's cultural standards.

  Frantz Fanon

  Country, Mother, People

  Frantz Fanon (1967). “Black Skin, White Masks”, p.18, Pluto Press

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• To overestimate the originality of one's thoughts is perhaps a less serious defect than being unaware of their newness. There is a more pronounced lack of sensitivity in underestimating (ourselves and others) than in overestimating.

  Eric Hoffer

  Serious, Underestimate, Sensitivity

  "Eric Hoffer and the Art of the Notebook" by Tom Bethell in Harper's Magazine, July 2005.

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• Vanity is the fear of appearing original: it is thus a lack of pride, but not necessarily a lack of originality.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Fear, Pride, Vanity

  Friedrich Nietzsche, Maudemarie Clark, Brian Leiter (1997). “Nietzsche: Daybreak: Thoughts on the Prejudices of Morality”, p.168, Cambridge University Press

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• What is originality? To see something that is as yet without a name, that is as yet impossible to designate, even though it staresus in the face. The way it usually is with people, it is a thing's name that makes it perceptible to them in the first place.--For the most part, the original ones have also been the name-givers.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Names, People, Way

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• We often mistake the original part of ourselves for a weakness.

  Mason Cooley

  Mistake, Weakness, Originals

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• Originality is in the eye of the beholder.

  Mason Cooley

  Eye, Beholder, Eye Of The Beholder

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• Originality finds the unexpected but inevitable next step.

  Mason Cooley

  Next Steps, Unexpected, Inevitable

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• I really believe that there is an enormous appetite amongst readers for an originality of vision. In other words, be true to your own dreams and there will always be people who want to hear them.

  Clive Barker

  Dream, Believe, People

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