Originality Quotes

"Do not go with the flow. Be the flow." "You should learn from your competitor, but never copy. Copy and you die." "No man was ever great by imitation" "Escape competition through authenticity" "Sometimes freedom from normal rules is what gives you the edge" "Where is the creativity? Creativity comes from looking for the unexpected and stepping outside your own experience." "Originality is really important." "The creative person, by necessity, must come to be at odds with the majority" "There's no formula or algorithm for innovation. You have to look for inspiration from a wide variety of places." "I'm a leader, ain't nobody got me walking in lines" "The first man to compare the cheeks of a young woman to a rose was obviously a poet; the first to repeat it was possibly an idiot " "You don’t have to follow conventional logic to tell a story in a way that's exciting and fresh to the audience." "You have to understand your own personal DNA. Don't do things because I do them or Steve Jobs or Mark Cuban tried it. You need to know your personal brand and stay true to it." "I've always tried to be different. I'm one of a kind." "The things that haven't been done before are the things that break new paths." "Different is better when it is more effective or more fun." "The world needs poetry now more than ever. It's the only thing that can keep music from copying itself and sounding the same." "You gotta stand up and assert your creativity even if everyone around you is a grey suit" "The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude" "To be independent of public opinion is the first formal condition of achieving anything great."