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 ?

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