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...

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...

If everybody likes you, you are doing it wrong.

Never judge any person by his answers or questions but by his nature of character solely.

I’ve finally decided to write about profit for a changeBut before I really started I already started to feel lameBaby what’s it to a beast who manely to money remains untamed

I don’t make people comfortable but that’s what couches are for.

For people never say anything the same way twice; no two of them ever say it the same. The greatest imaginative writer that ever brooded in a lavender robe and a mellowed briar in his...

Don’t try to be original, just try to be good.

The greater intellect one has, the more originality one finds in men. Ordinary persons find no difference between men.

You have to do stuff that average people don’t understand because those are the only good things.

In order to share one’s true brilliance one initially has to risk looking like a fool: genius is like a wheel that spins so fast, it at first glance appears to be sitting still.

There is nothing new except what has been forgotten.

Get off the treadmill of consumption, replication, and mediocrity. Begin lifting the weights of creativity, originality, and success.

Because even among contrarians, I’m a contrarian. But all of this is just words of bronze, third place rhetoric. What do I really mean when I say we want to shock society into awareness? Do...

We can never be entirely original, as artists or as people. The genius and vision of those who came before us is too great for us to digress from entirely. Though, as creatures that are...

All cases are unique and very similar to others.

ORIGINALITY is unexplored territory. You get there by carrying a canoe — you can’t take a taxi.

Society tells me to follow my own truth, but I don’t let society tell me what to do. If you need someone to tell you that, chances are you’re part of the crowd that will...

Madness, genius, originality – it’s all the same thing; it’s a breaking of our normal value structure and the substitution of another one.

Each of us is an artist of our days; the greater our integrity and awareness, the more original and creative our time will become.

Common people are often enough; that is why God made so many of them. Your job is to be— EXTRAORDINARY.

Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren’t very new after all.

Only those with no memory insist on their originality.

Any fool can do something cool and look cool, but it takes skill to make something uncool cool again.

He was no longer quite sure whether anything he had ever thought or felt was truly his own property, or whether his thoughts were merely a common part of the world’s store of ideas which...

If a man were to look over the fence on one side of his garden and observe that the neighbor on his left had laid his garden path round a central lawn; and were to...

The common person fears to think beyond the common.

One does not have to be a philosopher to be a successful artist, but he does have to be an artist to be a successful philosopher. His nature is to view the world in an...

We are all feeding from each other, all the time, every day.

Should we all confess our sins to one another we would all laugh at one another for our lack of originality

Our novice runs the risk of failure without additional traits: a strong inclination toward originality, a taste for research, and a desire to experience the incomparable gratification associated with the act of discovery itself.

Real people conceive originality then think, write but never read of others’ posts to copy to follow and the copycats follow exactly the opposite direction i.e. read of others’ posts, write but never think and...

It is commonly said to my little friend Legion: Read the great writers for style. But I say to him: Read the great dead masters for ideas. Devour them, Fletcherize them, digest, assimilate, make them...

Absurdity and anti—absurdity are the two poles of creative energy.

It is not possible to be original by trying to be original – those who attempt this in the arts will be merely avant-garde. Originality is the product of an impulse to intense and overwhelming...

Art builds upon art, builds upon art…nothing is purely original. We’re all inspired by something…or someone. It’s a never-ending chain of ideas…and it’s magical.

We have enough services going toward 18-34. Hopefully, the originality of the content demonstrates some of its MTV DNA.

A facility for quotation covers the absence of original thought.

Anymore, no one’s mind is their own.

Every text is unique and, at the same time, it is the translation of another text. No text is entirely original because language itself, in its essence, is already a translation: firstly, of the non-verbal...

An original idea. That can’t be too hard. The library must be full of them.

Someone who has got something of his own only understands the pain than anyone without his own stand and pain got anything under the sun.

You can’t be a rebel without the scars that come with it. Truth is, some days scars are just as ugly as they are beautiful.

Until you are able to answer the question of self, you’ll still be living under someones shadows

Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of void but out of chaos.

With cold eyes and indifferent mind the spectators regard the work. Connoissers admire the “skill” (as one admires a tightrope walker), enjoy the “quality of painting” (as one enjoys a pasty). But hungry souls go...

A person who is true to himself likes and loves others for what they are and not what they have.

Creative people are often found either disagreeable or intimidating by mediocrities.

The ethics of plagiarism have turned into the narcissism of small differences: because journalism cannot own up to its heavily derivative nature, it must enforce originality on the level of the sentence.

Still, wouldn’t you, even if entirely secure in your own sense of direction, be at least curious where others were heading, even as you struck out on your own ?