22 quotes
“You were born an original. Don’t die a copy.”
— John Mason
“Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise; seek what they sought.”
— Matsuo Bashō
“The imagination imitates. It is the critical spirit that creates.”
— Oscar Wilde
“I have never wished to cater to the crowd for what the crowd wants is what it already knows”
— Virgil Thomson
“In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different”
— Coco Chanel
“The mind is sharper and keener in seclusion and uninterrupted solitude. Originality thrives in seclusion free of outside influences beating upon us to cripple the creative mind.”
— Nikola Tesla
“Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise seek what they sought”
— Matsuo Basho
“Do not be satisfied with the stories that come before you. Unfold your own myth.”
— Rumi
“Nothing is original. Steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration or fuels your imagination. Creativity is selective theft.”
— Austin Kleon
“Originality is nothing but judicious imitation.”
— Voltaire
“The hallmark of originality is rejecting the default and exploring whether a better option exists.”
— Adam Grant
“Being original does not require being first it just means being different and better”
“It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.”
— Herman Melville
“Nothing is original steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration”
— Jim Jarmusch
“Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
“The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.”
— Aldous Huxley
“I am not the next Usain Bolt or Michael Phelps. I am the first Simone Biles.”
— Simone Biles
“It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation”
“An original is a creation motivated by desire any reproduction is motivated by necessity”
— Man Ray
“If you only read the books that everyone else is reading you can only think what everyone else is thinking”
— Haruki Murakami
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