Once conform, once do what other people do because they do it, and a lethargy steals over all the finer nerves and faculties of the soul. She becomes all outer show and inward emptiness; dull,...

A sensible person is one who has a sensitive nature towards all living creatures and this is his or her best personality features towards the positive outlook in life

When you have wit of your own, it’s a pleasure to credit other people for theirs.

Literature for me… tries to heal the harm done by stories. (How much harm? Most of the atrocities of history have been created by stories, e.g., the Jews killed Jesus.) I follow Sartre that the...

The unique must be fulfilled.

I am never forget the day I first meet the great Lobachevsky.In one word he told me secret of success in mathematics:Plagiarize!Plagiarize!Let no one else’s work evade your eyes!Remember why the good Lord made your...

Every story has already been told. Once you’ve read Anna Karenina, Bleak House, The Sound and the Fury, To Kill a Mockingbird and A Wrinkle in Time, you understand that there is really no reason...

They also look for originality.

It’s not what you lift, it’s where you carry it.

Forge your iron; shape it by force, not into a flower you already know but into what can also be a flower if you think it is and it is so.

When I wrote this song I felt pretty unoriginal because everybody writes love songs, and everybody feels like their love is the most important and when their love ends and they get their heart broken,...

Practising honestly the simplicity in life is an act of humanity so, in fact, a true spirituality which is always a service to an omnipresent, invisible power called God Almighty.

Think outside the box? Indeed. But to add balance to that, one should not in the process forget what the inside of the box looks like as well. Those who are best at thinking outside...

True originality consists not in a new manner but in a new vision.

Sometimes we have to behave indifferent towards people who proclaim their love to us, just to see if they are really different.

More than once I should have lost my soul to radicalism if it had been the originality it was mistaken for by its young converts.

No original thought still exists. People are original, each one of them. The same ideas that others had before you are waiting for you to bring them back to life in a new way. The...

Pseudo-artists think that being an artist means opposing whatever seems to be an establishment. That is not creative at all. True creativity is the ability to gain perspective wherever you may have missed it before.

Artistry, perhaps, is at its core being able to control change in interesting ways.

The Japanese had no idea what elements of Western culture and institutions where the crucial ones, so they ended up copying everything, from western clothes and hair styles to the European practice of colonizing foreign...

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.