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Great men are more distinguished by range and extent than by originality.
Human nature has a much greater genius for sameness than for originality.
Assimilate all you can from tradition and then say things in your own way.
Anything really new is repulsive, because it is abnormal and unreasonable.
The more intelligent a man is, the more originality he discovers in others.
I think originality is something that's important and catches people's eye.
Originality is the one thing which unoriginal minds cannot feel the use of.
Many have original minds who do not think it - they are led away by custom!
Profundity and originality are attributes of single, if not singular, minds.
Originality is independence, not rebellion; it is sincerity, not antagonism.
I'd like to be an original, to be myself and not a pale copy of anyone else.
Originality is so hip and cool, but to be original you must dare to be corny.
Originality is a thing we constantly clamour for, and constantly quarrel with.
Originality is deliberate and forced, and partakes of the nature of a protest.
I am attracted to arguments that have a certain plausible originality to them.
What the world calls originality is only an unaccustomed method of tickling it.
He has left off reading altogether, to the great improvement of his originality.
Anyone who attempts anything original in the world must expect a bit of ridicule.
Sometimes you have to be worn out and burnt out to become authentic and original.
Nature is the fountain's head, the source from whence all originality must spring.
An original writer is not one who imitates nobody, but one whom nobody can imitate.
The personality and songwriting of Holy Ghost! trumps the originality card any day.
Talent is a long patience, and originality an effort of will and intense observation.
A man is original when he speaks the truth that has always been known to all good men.
Your turn has come to sift through the dreck of humanity for rare specks of originality
Do not worry about your originality. You could not get rid of it even if you wanted to.
Originality, I fear, is too often only undetected and frequently unconscious plagiarism.
Find yourself and express yourself in your own particular way. Express your love openly.
Nearly all our originality comes from the stamp that time impresses upon our sensibility.
When a work appears to be ahead of its time, it is only the time that is behind the work.
What is originality? It is being one's self, and reporting accurately what we see and are.
Great success in examinations does naturally not as a rule go with originality of thought.
From thee, great God, we spring, to thee we tend,- Path, motive, guide, original, and end.
Men are made by nature unequal. It is vain, therefore, to treat them as if they were equal.
Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it.
Originality is the essence of true scholarship. Creativity is the soul of the true scholar.
As a young artist, especially in rap and at that time that I came out, originality was big.
My originality consists in putting the logic of the visible to the service of the invisible.
It's incumbent on good public servants to maintain their voices and originality of thinking.
Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality.
The prerequisite of originality is the art of forgetting, at the proper moment, what we know.
Anytime there's originality and comedy combined, it's very potent for people who love comedy.
The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.
Every director has a sensibility and style, and what works is his originality and conviction.
That one tickled. If electrocution is your way of flirting, I commend you on your originality.
As long as you can Houdini your way out of the Sisyphean constraints then originality happens.
I'm not only a romanticist but a romantic myself. I take it for granted the originality matters.
Originality depends only on the character of the drawing and the vision peculiar to each artist.
Demonstration of individual talent involves originality and it is easy to destroy natural talent.
Originality, of course, is what occurs when something new arises out of what's already been done.