Quotes about Originality

You have to color outside the lines once in a while if you want to make your life a masterpiece.

One couldn't carry on life comfortably without a little blindness to the fact that everything has been said better than we can put it ourselves.

the intimate revelations of young men, or at least the terms in which they express them, are usually plagiaristic and marred by obvious suppressions.

I'm not trying to be fashionable. Never was!

Every individual, however original he may be, is still a child of God, of his age, of his nation, of his family and friends. Only thus is he truly himself. If in all this relativity he tries to be the absolute, then he becomes ridiculous.

If the sphere of paradox-religion is abolished, or explained away in aesthetics, an Apostle becomes neither more nor less than a genius, and then--good night, Christianity! Esprit and the Spirit, revelation and originality, a call from God and genius, all end by meaning more or less the same thing.

It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.

If a man can write a better book, preach a better sermon, or make a better mousetrap than his neighbor, though he build his house in the woods, the world will make a beaten path to his door.

When you've got 10,000 people trying to do the same thing, why would you want to be number 10,001?

Be the one to stand out in the crowd.

Be who God created you to be. You are an original. You have something to offer the world that nobody else has.

After all God doesn't want you to be an imitation of someone else. You should be the original you were created to be. There is an anointing on your life, an empowerment. Not to be somebody else, but to be you. If you let people squeeze you into their molds and you bow down to their pressure to try to please your critics, it not only takes away your uniqueness, but it also lessens the favor on your life.