Quotes about Originality
There is spontaneity to my work.
— Lady Gaga
To be a man is to be a nonconformist.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
A man of great common sense and good taste - meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.
— George Bernard Shaw
Since Eden's freshness and man's fall, no rose has been original.
— Thomas Bailey Aldrich
conventional phrases are a sort of fireworks, easily let off, and liable to take a great variety of shapes and colours not at all suggested by their original form.
— Charles Dickens
In business or in life, don't follow the wagon tracks too closely.
— H Jackson Brown, Jr.
Wear audacious underwear under the most solemn business attire.
— H Jackson Brown, Jr.
Ordinary people pursue money, simple people pursue power, average people pursue fame, but extraordinary people pursue ideas.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Be yourself....and make the world adjust!
— Germany Kent
The secret is authenticity. The reason people fail is because they're pretending to be something they're not.
— Oprah Winfrey
It's tragic how few people ever 'possess their souls' before they die. 'Nothing is more rare in any man', says Emerson, 'than an act of his own.' It is quite true. Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their life is a mimicry, their passions a quotation.
— Oscar Wilde
An artist should create beautiful things, but should put nothing of his own life into them.
— Oscar Wilde