Every man has a specific skill, whether it is discovered or not, that more readily and naturally comes to him than it would to another, and his own should be sought and polished. He excels...

When you’re socially awkward, you’re isolated more than usual, and when you’re isolated more than usual, your creativity is less compromised by what has already been said and done. All your hope in life starts...

If everybody likes you, you are doing it wrong.

The reason some people put on a mask in not in their blood but it is in their fear that we judge them too soon.

Originality has nothing to do with producing something ’ new’ – it is about seeking the source, the primordial ground from which you draw and have always drawn your being. It comes about when one...

In fact, Lig never formally resigned his editorship—he merely left his office late one morning, and has never returned since. Though well over a century has now passed, many members of the Guide staff still...

You don’t have to reinvent the wheel… just steal the hubcaps.” ― Michael P. Naughton,

Originality is the best form of rebellion.

When you release the illusion of control, you begin an effortless free-fall toward a grand reunion with your original self.

When most of the greatest individuals in history were misunderstood and you’ve spent so much of your own adult life misunderstood, you can’t help but believe that the majority of people know very little worth...

originality and a feeling of one’s own dignity are achieved only through work and struggle.

If your looking to write a book, your creativity, originality and simplicity is what will distinguish you.

Originality and initiative are what I ask for my country.

A book written within, contains ideas and thoughts from all over, where each page explains itself.

It’s not going to be so easy to be yourself as speaking or advocating about it, but he who is truly determined and destined attains this coveted status.

Yes, be different, but not for the vanities of being different.

If it aint broke, break it. Then build something better.

Those who say there are no more original ideas need to get out of the way of those of us who are creating them.

Originality is nothing but judicious plagiarism.

We are obliged to regard many of our original minds as crazy at least until we have become as clever as they are.

Daca schizofrenia este universala, atunci marele artist este cu adevarat cel care sparge zidul schizofrenic, ajungand in patria necunoscuta, acolo unde el nu mai apartine niciunei epoci, niciunui mediu, niciunei scoli.

It’s not where you take things from – it’s where you take them to.”[MovieMaker Magazine #53 – Winter, January 22, 2004 ]

A great thinker does not necessarily have to discover a master idea but has to rediscover and to affirm a true but forgotten, ignored or misunderstood master idea and interpret it in all the diverse...

Creativity starts with a little touch of insanity and culminates with the highest trust on its beauty, but throughout it maintains the hands of originality,humanity and ALMIGHTY.

No mathematician should ever allow him to forget that mathematics, more than any other art or science, is a young man’s game. … Galois died at twenty-one, Abel at twenty-seven, Ramanujan at thirty-three, Riemann at...

All novels are sequels; influence is bliss.

Any local music scene at any point in time can be referred to as derivative of more well-known acts. The line separating influence from imitation is a blurry one. Very few artists are completely original;...

Admirations are never paid in any way, try to make yourself of what you admire, and it will pay you with originality.

I have been known to think outside of all rules. Even my own.

It’s been very important throughout my career that I’ve met all the guys I’ve copied, because at each stage they’ve said, ”Don’t play like me, play like you.”

Insanity is coasting through life in a miserable existence when you have a caged lion locked inside and the key to release it.

Be different. Be original. Nobody will remember a specific flower in a garden filled with thousands of the same yellow flower, but they will remember the one that managed to change its color to purple.

The world is starving for original and decisive leadership.

Creativity is the ability to produce ideas that are both original and valuable.

Enemies are often former or potential friends who have been denied – or think that they have been denied – something.

Like almost all of Beefheart’s recorded work, it was not even “ahead” of its time in 1969. Then and now, it stands outside time, trends, fads, hypes, the rise and fall of whole genres eclectic...

Is it possible to say “It was a beautiful morning at the end of November” without feeling like Snoopy?

A person who speaks his own words makes the true sense to the world and, therefore, the real difference in the lives of the people to whom he speaks directly or indirectly.

If what you create seems to turn out much stranger than who you are as a person, it’s probably because your heart is talking.

Originality of mind untainted,And enthusiasm for life, unlimited.

No man, proclaimed Donne, is an Island, and he was wrong. If we were not islands, we would be lost, drowned in each other’s tragedies. We are insulated (a word that means, literally, remember, made...

I don’t believe in originality. You take inspiration from whatever moves you and you find your voice in those things.

It’s good when a man deceives your expectations, when he doesn’t correspond to the preconceived notion of him. To belong to a type is the end of a man, his condemnation. If he doesn’t fall...

Originality, not Intelligence, is the sign of a brilliant Author. All the Education in the world won’t help someone who can’t think for themselves.

The most mesmerizing of artists is always like one who was merely drawing in the sand and people came to watch.

The artist’s duty is to defend the exceptional: the imagination.

I refuse to believe that Hendrix had the last possessed hand,that Joplin had the last drunken throat,that Morrison had the last enlightened mind.

Our ancestors have invented, we can at least innovate.

Stay unknown until you know what you want to be known for.#StokesNotes

The fastest way to die is to live a lie