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 ?

Mockery is childish. It does not become you.

Man, or at least criminal man, has lost all enterprise and originality. As to my own little practice, it seems to be degenerating into an agency for recovering lost lead pencils and giving advice to...

I never set out to be weird. It was always other people who called me weird.

Nothing of me is original. I am the combined effort of everyone I’ve ever known.

Creativity is easy.Originality is difficult.Relevance is a bitch.

Originality is undetected plagiarism.

Prosperity has many friends, even adversity has a few friends, but originality practicing the reality of altruistic humanity in life has only true friends.

The presence of hundreds of books had finally convinced Hermione that what they were doing was right.

An original writer is not one who imitates nobody, but one whom nobody can imitate.

When you are convinced that what you offer is yours, whether it be mediocre or of standard quality, your originality will make people love you in a way you did not expect.

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.