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Originality is unexplored territory. You get there by...

Originality is unexplored territory. You get there by carrying a canoe - you can't take a taxi

Quote by Alan Alda about humor, originality

Originality consists in trying to be like everybody else...

Originality consists in trying to be like everybody else and failing.

Quote by Raymond Radiguet about originality

Originally the League was forbidden to touch the subject of tariffs, and there was a strong predisposition to regard banking as a mystery that must be removed entirely from the purview of governments.

Quote by Arthur Henderson

Your manuscript is both good and original; but the part...

Your manuscript is both good and original; but the part that is good is not original, and the part that is original is not good.

Quote by Samuel Johnson about good, good luck

The essential element of talent is the originality and...

The essential element of talent is the originality and originality means differentiation.

Quote by Eugen Lovinescu about talent, originality, essential

It seems difficult, sometimes, to believe that there was a time when sentiments now become habitual, sentiments that imply not only the original imperative of conduct, but the original metaphysic of living, were by no means altogether habitual.

Quote by Lascelles Abercrombie about conduct, time

Millions of men have lived to fight, build palaces and boundaries, shape destinies and societies; but the compelling force of all times has been the force of originality and creation profoundly affecting the roots of human spirit.

Quote by Ansel Adams about originality, force, police, creation, fight, human imperfections, spirit, man

The writer of originality, unless dead, is always...

The writer of originality, unless dead, is always shocking, scandalous; novelty disturbs and repels.

Quote by Simone de Beauvoir about novelty, originality, writers

There are demerit points for originality when one is caught.

There are demerit points for originality when one is caught.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about originality

I think it's a great document of John Stevens' originality. At that time he was already much more fully formed in his conception than I was. I was sort of struggling to keep up, and sometimes it's pretty obvious.

Quote by Evan Parker about opinion, originality, time

Here society is reduced to its original elements, the whole fabric of art and conventionality is struck rudely to pieces, and men find themselves suddenly brought back to the wants and resources of their original natures.

Quote by Francis Parkman about society, art, magic, man

The greater intellect one has, the more originality one...

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

Quote by Blaise Pascal about intelligence, originality, people, man

There is no original truth, only original error.

There is no original truth, only original error.

Quote by Gaston Bachelard about error, truth

There are no original ideas. There are only original people.

There are no original ideas. There are only original people.

Quote by Barbara Grizzuti Harrison about idea, people

All good things which exist are the fruits of originality.

All good things which exist are the fruits of originality.

Quote by John Stuart Mill about order, originality, things, good, good luck

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

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

Quote by Edith Wharton about originality, vision

Even originality is a medium form of lie.

Even originality is a medium form of lie.

Quote by Iulian Andrei about originality, lie

The aim of public education is not to spread enlightement at all; it is simply to reduce as many individuals as possible to the same safe level, to breed a standard citizenry, to put down dissent and originality.

Quote by Henry Louis Mencken about education, originality, public

I stay true to myself and my style, and I am always...

I stay true to myself and my style, and I am always pushing myself to be aware of that and be original.

Quote by Aaliyah about truth, style

And doing so you can recreate yourself and you can also come up with something that is not only original and creative and artistic, but also maybe even decent, or moral if I can use words like that, or something that's like basically good.

Quote by Lester Bangs about use, moral, good, good luck

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