Originality Quotes

"The first man to compare the cheeks of a young woman to a rose was obviously a poet; the first to repeat it was possibly an idiot " "You don’t have to follow conventional logic to tell a story in a way that's exciting and fresh to the audience." "You have to understand your own personal DNA. Don't do things because I do them or Steve Jobs or Mark Cuban tried it. You need to know your personal brand and stay true to it." "I've always tried to be different. I'm one of a kind." "The things that haven't been done before are the things that break new paths." "Different is better when it is more effective or more fun." "The world needs poetry now more than ever. It's the only thing that can keep music from copying itself and sounding the same." "You gotta stand up and assert your creativity even if everyone around you is a grey suit" "The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude" "To be independent of public opinion is the first formal condition of achieving anything great." "Be regular and orderly in your life so that you may be violent and original in your work" "It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation." "I must create a system, or be enslav'd by another man's; I will not reason and compare: my business is to create" "The most contrarian thing of all is not to oppose the crowd but to think for yourself" "The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity"