Originality Quotes

"Be regular and orderly in your life so that you may be violent and original in your work" "It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation." "I must create a system, or be enslav'd by another man's; I will not reason and compare: my business is to create" "The most contrarian thing of all is not to oppose the crowd but to think for yourself" "The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity" "Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else" "Don't follow the crowd, let the crowd follow you" "If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn’t thinking" "Be yourself. The world worships the original" "It's always better to shock people and change people's expectations than to give them exactly what they think you can do" "I like to say it's an attitude of not just thinking outside the box, but not even seeing the box" "There really was nothing like it at the time. We had good ideas for implementation, so we proceeded" "If you're always trying to be normal you will never know how amazing you can be" "Immature poets imitate mature poets steal" "Either you repeat the same conventional doctrines everybody is saying, or else you say something true, and it will sound like it’s from Neptune." "If you don't like someone's story, write your own " "Improvement makes straight roads; but the crooked roads without improvement are roads of genius " "The world was not created once and for all time, but as often as an original artist has been born" "Think off-center" "Make it new."