Originality Quotes
Sometimes we have to behave indifferent towards people who proclaim their love to us, just to see if they are really different.
The presence of hundreds of books had finally convinced Hermione that what they were doing was right.
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.
Originality is genius. If you respect and care for it, it will take you on the ride of your life.
It is remarkable that when great discoveries are effected, their simplicity always seems to detract from their originality: on these occasions we are reminded of the egg of Columbus!
There was a part of me that felt afraid of people in Hollywood going: '**** Hollywood with their total lack of originality!'.
Your turn has come to sift through the dreck of humanity for rare specks of originality
As long as you can Houdini your way out of the Sisyphean constraints then originality happens.
If in many of my productions terror has been the thesis, I maintain that terror is not of Germany, but of the soul.
Our originality shows itself most strikingly not in what we wholly originate but in what we do with that which we borrow from others.
It is the fate of every great achievement to be pounced upon by pedants and imitators who drain it of life and turn it into an orthodoxy which stifles all stirrings of originality.
Young men and young women, full of courage, originality, and genius, are everywhere to be met with.
Aurelie Sheehan's absorbing stories have depth miles beneath their compelling surface. They radiate a wisdom, beauty and originality rare in contemporary fiction.
Self-projection is, more often than not, the move of the minor craftsman, of the tactics of the hour whose inherent weakness is, precisely, that of originality.
I am a Californian, and we have twice the individuality and originality of any people in the United States. We always get quite huffy when we are spoken of as merely Americans.
Individuality and originality is was separates good and great artists! How much they can move people with what they do! If they can shake the heart with what they do, is the key!
Geniuses can be scintillating and geniuses can be somber, but it's that inescapable sorrowful depth that shines through-originality.
Dissent is the mark of freedom, as originality is the mark of independence of mind. … No one can be a scientist … if he does not have independence of observation and of thought.
Men are made by nature unequal. It is vain, therefore, to treat them as if they were equal.
Nast is an artist of uncommon abilities. His works evince originality of conception, freedom of manner, lofty appreciation of national ideas and action, and a large artistic instinct.
That one tickled. If electrocution is your way of flirting, I commend you on your originality.
Take here the grand secret; if not of pleasing all, yet of displeasing none, and court mediocrity, avoid originality, and sacrifice to fashion.
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.
Originality is something that is easily exaggerated, especially by authors contemplating their own work.
We are the ORIGIN of our art, its homeland. Viewed this way, ORIGINALITY is the process of remaining true to ourselves.
...it is curiosity, initiative, originality, and the ruthless application of honesty that count in research- much more than feats of logic and memory alone.
What audiences end up with word-wise is a hackneyed, completely derivative copy of old Hollywood romances, a movie that reeks of phoniness and lacks even minimal originality.
John Stowell plays jazz, but he doesn’t use any of the clichés; he has an incredible originality. John is a master creator.
My advice to all new writers - male or female - it isn't easy, but forge ahead and be true to your originality.
Frivolity, under whatever form it appears, deprives attention of its power, thought of its originality, and sentiment of its depth.
The actual breakthrough in the privacy of the studio, when one dares to apply paint in a new manner, is a solitary thrill, dependent upon no one else.
Tradition kills originality; you keep repeating the same things in tradition! Behave like the sky; always create new and different things; be original!
I feel like the internet also affects originality a lot, because music is so easily shared nowadays, it seems like artists have collectively explored most of the grounds that music has to offer.
Originality is always a strange thing. There's nothing original anymore. It's all something based on something in some way - even if it's not intentional. So that idea has been done.
Every film has to be the next something else; originality isn't celebrated because you can't market it.
I'm not only a romanticist but a romantic myself. I take it for granted the originality matters.
In the age of mediocrity and clones, John Stowell's uniqueness and originality are a breath of fresh air. I love playing with him.
Conversation is interesting in proportion to the originality of the central ideas which serve as pivots and the fitness of the little facts and observations which are contributed by the talkers.
The only way to grab the attention of the audience is originality. We feed ourselves with franchises that's the opposite of what makes our culture multidimensional and interesting.
