Originality

Just keep thinking about the good side of ADD - the creativity and the originality it can stimulate.
David Neeleman
Creativity
Originality
Thinking
As a rule, I am very careful to be shallow and conventional where depth and originality are wasted.
Lucy Maud Montgomery
Originality
All good things which exist are the fruits of originality.
John Stuart Mill
Originality
Originality is the one thing which unoriginal minds cannot feel the use of.
John Stuart Mill
Originality
It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.
Herman Melville
Imitation
Originality
Succeed
The world in general doesn't know what to make of originality; it is startled out of its comfortable habits of thought, and its first reaction is one of anger.
W. Somerset Maugham
Anger
Thought
First
Habits
Originality
World
The burden of originality is one that most people don't want to accept. They'd rather sit in front of the TV and let that tell them what they're supposed to like, what they're supposed to buy, and what they're supposed to laugh at.
Marilyn Manson
People
Burden
Originality
Want
Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.
C. S. Lewis
Art
Truth
Caring
Literature
Man
Originality
Will
Originality is independence, not rebellion; it is sincerity, not antagonism.
George Henry Lewes
Independence
Originality
Rebellion
Sincerity
I always try to improve, to find new ways of expressing myself, to keep looking for truth and originality.
Burt Lancaster
Truth
Originality
When I came up, it was all about originality and collective research. There is an awful lot of imitation going on now.
Steve Lacy
Imitation
Now
Originality
Research
The British feel of blues has been hard, rather than emotional. Far too much emphasis on 12 bar, too little attention to words, far too little originality.
Alexis Korner
Attention
Originality
Words
The prerequisite of originality is the art of forgetting, at the proper moment, what we know.
Arthur Koestler
Art
Originality
The principle mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.
Arthur Koestler
Genius
Originality
Perfection
Originality is undetected plagiarism.
William Ralph Inge
Originality
Plagiarism