Quotes About Being Original

#1. I find that the very things that I get criticized for, which is usually being different and just doing my own thing and just being original, is the very thing that's making me successful.

Shania Twain

#2. I always took a great deal of pride in being original.

Roger Miller

#3. We are not in the business of being original. We are in the business of reusing things that work.

Robert W. Bly

#4. Being original doesn't require being first. It just means being different and better.

Adam M. Grant

#5. I was very into making the Big Artistic Statement - it had to be innovative; it had to be cutting edge. I was desperately keen on being original.

David Bowie

#6. I am not interested in being original. I am interested in being true.

Agostinho Da Silva

#7. I've always been noted for being original and doing different thing. So for me to hop on the train that's going on would be - shoot, if I wanted to hop on the train, I might as well have hopped on gangsta rap back when it was popular and tried to do that.

Will Ferrell

#8. I thought maybe if you wore different clothes at school,' Paul said, 'maybe you could start a trend. You'd be original.' 'Oh, my God,' she said. 'It's high school, Dad. People get beat up for being original.

Sherman Alexie

#9. A writer does not own words any more than a painter owns colors. So lets dispense with this originality fetish ... Look, listen and transcribe and forget about being original.

William S. Burroughs

#10. You don't get on by being original. You don't get on by being bright. You don't get on by being strong. You get on by being a subtle crook.

Hilary Mantel

#11. Being original is beautiful. Copying someone is just being a fool

Tarang Sinha

#12. If being original means having to throw paint in front of a jet turbine to hit a canvas 50 ft away then lets not be original.

Shepard Fairey

#13. Great genial power, one would almost say, consists in not being original at all; in being altogether receptive; in letting the world do all, and suffering the spirit of the hour to pass unobstructed through the mind.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#14. I really think that being yourself, being original, being outside the box is starting to be appealing to people.

Miranda Lambert

#15. If you want to be original just try being yourself, because God has never made two people exactly alike.

Bernard Meltzer

#16. I've always found a way to make my way, and now I've had the fortune of being hired by a great company - Chrysler Corporation - one of the original Big Three.

Joe Wurzelbacher

#17. Architecture has its political Use; publick Buildings being the Ornament of a Country; it establishes a Nation, draws People and Commerce; makes the People love their native Country, which Passion is the Original of all great Actions in a Common-wealth ... Architecture aims at Eternity.

Christopher Wren

#18. I've played a bunch of different versions of Walter [from Fringe].I loved it when he was being random, which was probably the original version of him, more than anyone else. I loved doing Walter then, and all of the different mental states that we've played.

John Noble

#19. Through ignorance, through faith, through intelligence, through trickery and cunning, through illumination, the reader rewrites the text with the same words of the original but under another heading, re-creating it, as it were, in the very act of bringing it into being.

Alberto Manguel

#20. When you're the only sane person, you look like the only insane person.

Criss Jami

#21. Where words can be translated into equivalent words, the style of an original can be closely followed; but no translation which aims at being written in normal English can reproduce the style of Aristotle.

Gilbert Murray

#22. Poetry is a tree with very deep roots and while there may be excitement about this or that new little branch, you're not going to make anything original by just doing whatever's being rewarded at the moment.

Joan Larkin

#23. I think I have quite traditional views on original sin, grace, and the real but difficult nature of we humans being able to learn something true about being human that we didn't know before. And yet the consequences of this traditional view are really quite radical.

James Alison

#24. Every human being on this earth is born with a tragedy, and it isn't original sin. He's born with the tragedy that he has to grow up ... a lot of people don't have the courage to do it.

Helen Hayes

#25. I will say that the idea of a woman being deceptive came from that original discussion with critics and reporters about if woman could do that kind of thing. Evelyn, herself, grew out of the discussions about how capable women are of deceit and lying and manipulation.

Neil LaBute

#26. By remaining constrained in one's environment or country or family, one has little chance of being other than the original prescription. By leaving, one gains a perspective, a distance of both space and time, which is essential for writing about family or home, in any case.

Rabih Alameddine

#27. Love is born into every human being; it calls back the halves of our original nature together; it tries to make one out of two and heal the wound of human nature.

Plato

#28. Don't commit to being a columnist unless you're willing to do it right. Report your behind off, so you have something original and useful to say. Say it in a way that will interest someone other than you, your family and your sources.

Allan Sloan

#29. If one has fear, there can be no initiative in the creative sense of the word. To have initiative in this sense is to do something original - to do it spontaneously, naturally, without being guided, forced, controlled. It is to do something which you love to do.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

#30. You can imagine a soul as being a detailed, elaborate pattern that exists very clearly in one brain. When a person dies, the original is no longer around. But there are other versions of it in other people's brains. It's a less detailed copy, it's coarse-grained.

Douglas Hofstadter

#31. I read certain articles about how all of the new filmmakers are immediately being given massive tentpoles, and there's a lot of original movies that we have now lost as a result of this. I don't want to call it a fad because I think it's a good thing. I think the movies are better as a result.

Colin Trevorrow

#32. Originality is the key to being memorable.

Suzy Kassem

#33. Because dogs and cats still live in the original state of connectedness with Being, they can help us regain it. When we do so, however, that original state deepens and turns into awareness.

Eckhart Tolle

#34. For the integrated human being there is no past: there is only the continual transformation of original experience.

Vivian Gornick

#35. I've gotten more flack from the remake nature of our 'Being Human' from American audiences than I have from British fans. Every fan of the BBC original that I've bumped into seemed very excited and interested in seeing what we did with it - at least to my face!

Samuel Witwer

#36. Am I reserved? I think I agree with that. I don't think I'm particularly original. I am quite homey, though. But then I'm also quite transient. I quite like being nomadic.

Carey Mulligan

#37. I like that original romance of having a pen and a legal pad and going anywhere in the world and being able to write a novel with just those two things.

Alice McDermott

#38. Original minds are not distinguished by being the first to see a new thing, but instead by seeing the old, familiar thing that is over-looked as something new.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#39. If you make something good and interesting and not ridiculing someone or being offensive, the creators of the original material will like it.

Christian Marclay

#40. The Beginning and end of all literary activity is the reproduction of the world that surrounds me by means of the world that is in me, all things being grasped, related, recreated, molded, and reconstructed in a personal form and original manner.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

#41. When you look at the original 'Paradise Lost' film, you see three kids who can't defend themselves, being persecuted in a medieval way - witchcraft, satanic worship. It was kind of primitive.

Peter Jackson

#42. I like being in a recording studio. I like watching a song go from the simplicity of the original music.

Grace Slick

#43. The only desire the Culture could not satisfy from within itself was one common to both the descendants of its original human stock and the machines they had (at however great a remove) brought into being: the urge not to feel useless.

Iain M. Banks

#44. I've seen the most remarkable thing. It's in the New York Public Library. They've got the original typescript of 'The Importance of Being Earnest' - all four acts of it.

Peter Shaffer

#45. In regards to those other franchises that are being remade, we must take pains to mention that we're the only one where the original creators are actually making the movie. It's a special feel of quality, like a Good Housekeeping quality.

David Kirschner

#46. The landscape of cinema is not original. Not to say there aren't great movies being made, but it's much easier for studios to make movies that have built-in audiences. So it's all remakes, adaptations, a lot of remakes of adaptations.

Charlie Hunnam

#47. How is it, that for many of us, being a good Christian is nothing more than being a good person? The entire focus of our faith has been the elimination of sin, which is important but inadequate; rather than the unleashing of a unique, original, extraordinary, wonderfully untamed, faith.

Erwin Raphael McManus

#48. Why settle for being a carbon copy; when you were created to be an original?

James A. Jimason

#49. Too often, you see film makers from other countries who have made interesting, original films, and then they come here and get homogenized into being hack Hollywood directors. I don't want to fall into that.

Peter Jackson

#50. Beauty, however, must here be understood in its original meaning: as the glow of the true and the good irradiating from every ordered state of being, and not in the patent significance of immediate sensual appeal.

Josef Pieper

#51. Song-Mi Lee, ... her life wholly dedicated to protecting the great man against the importunities of the academic world and soothing his despair at no longer being able to achieve an erection or an original thought.

David Lodge

#52. Phonocentrism places higher value on spoken language as being more primary than and thus superior to written language, which it conceives as necessarily corrupting the original Subject - the center of meaning.

Minae Mizumura

#53. My goal is to put out an album with every song being an original composition of mine. I want the credits to read, 'All songs written by Gregory L. Allman' - that is something I really want to make happen.

Gregg Allman

#54. Be yourself. An original is always worth more than a copy.

Suzy Kassem

#55. The best way to be original is to be yourself.

Paulo Coelho

#56. The first time I saw my father-in-law's cotton, I though of the Original Sin, gardening being the root of the South's downfall.

Michael Lee West

#57. If you want to experience a free-flowing discourse devoid of limitation, you need to seek the darkest fringes of the Internet (and none of that anonymous bile can bleed back into proper society, because the interpretation always ends up being worse than the original sentiment).

Chuck Klosterman

#58. I love being directed. Because it's another thought, it's another fresh idea. You're so grateful for an original idea that you haven't had.

Diana Rigg

#59. The grace is being able to like rock music,
symphony music, jazz ...
anything that contains the original energy of
joy.

Charles Bukowski

#60. Every time I add something I truly believe is original and belonging to myself it ends up being stolen orn taken down.
So No! I will not add any quotes Besides it's considered a Narcissistic act to quote oneself in my book.

Zachary Appleton

#61. To just be--to be--amidst all doings, achievings, and becomings. This is the natural state of mind, or original, most fundamental state of being. This is unadulterated Buddha-nature. This is like finding our balance.

Lama Surya Das

#62. I feel like a novice, just as I felt before I knew anything of the keyboard. It is far too original, and I shall end up not being able to learn it myself.

Frederic Chopin

#63. It is all about being open and paying attention to the music in your head. I think most people have original music playing in their heads from time to time.

Tommy Shaw

#64. Badness cannot succeed even in being bad in the same way in which goodness is good. Goodness is, so to speak, itself: badness is only spoiled goodness. Evil is a parasite, not an original thing.

C.S. Lewis

#65. 'Dance to the Music' was just Sly Stone being his natural crazy self right from the beginning. The man was an original and his first AM hit was nothing if it wasn't the example per excellence of the Sly Stone music machine.

Jon Landau

#66. Jesus did not spend a great deal of time discoursing about the trinity or original sin or the incarnation, which have preoccupied later Christians. He went around doing good and being compassionate.

Karen Armstrong

#67. before being born, each soul is kissed by God and then goes through life always, in some dark way, remembering that kiss and measuring everything it experiences in relation to that original sweetness.

Ronald Rolheiser

#68. Only in humans, alone among the animals, did violence make victim mechanisms necessary and bring them into being. If original sin created the problem of violence, it found a solution in archaic religion. The paradox of human cultures is that violence expels violence: Satan casts out Satan. MSB

Rene Girard

#69. It is impossible to be a maverick or a true original if you're too well behaved and don't want to break the rules. You have to think outside the box. That's what I believe. After all, what is the point of being on this earth if all you want to do is be liked by everyone and avoid trouble?

Arnold Schwarzenegger

#70. The surest method of being incomprehensible or, moreover, to be misunderstood is to use words in their original sense; especially words from the ancient languages.

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

#71. I'm trying to speak
to write-the truth. Im trying to be clear. I'm not interested in being fancy, or even original. Clarity and truth will be plenty, if I can only achieve them.

Octavia E. Butler

#72. Pretension almost always overdoes the original, and hence exposes itself.

Hosea Ballou

#73. What is the nature of that place where our original self is one with its longing to explore its own deepest possibilities, and where discovering the treasures waiting there is the same as fulfilling our purpose for being?

Guy Finley

#74. Nations sometimes flourish by denying the crimes that brought them into being. Only when the original invasion, occupation, extermination or usurpation has been safely thrust into the political unconscious can sovereignty feel secure.

Terry Eagleton

#75. [H]is 'philosophy' seemed to consist of anything that would be particularly annoying to the powers that be without being so shocking that they would fire him. He got the reputation among the students as an original and a rebel without having to pay the penalty for actually being either.

Orson Scott Card

#76. I loved 'Pulling.' It was so original and hilarious. I remember being very sad when it finished. I'd love to start a campaign to bring it back, but if I did, the actors would probably say, 'We're fine. We're all really busy, thanks. Please don't!'

Sophie McShera

#77. Every condition of the soul has its own sign and expression ... So you will see how hard it is to seem original without being so.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

#78. I like her explanation better than just being a diminutive
of someone else.

Thalia Chaltas

#79. In observing the Sabbath, man was culturally structuring his time in accordance with a holy pattern. This was part of his cultural commision, along with the task of being an architect of space by tending the Garden. Space and time were thus consecrated by man's original culture.

Kenneth A. Myers

#80. It is in the nature of original contemporary art to present itself as a bad risk. And we the public ... should be proud of being in this predicament, because nothing else would seem to us quite true to life; and art, after all, is supposed to be a mirror of life.

Leo Steinberg

#81. Form displays the relation [to beings] itself as the state of original comportment toward beings, the festive state in which the being itself in its essence is celebrated and thus for the first time placed in the open.

Martin Heidegger

#82. The original intent of laws was to get the masses of people to accept the limitations superimposed upon them as being the result of their own misbehavior.

Jacque Fresco

#83. The original Jethro Tull was a 19th century English agriculturist who invented a seed drill you see ... the first automatic process where by small holes were made in Mother Earth and even smaller seeds were deposited one at a time and neetly covered over as a cat does after having being naughty.

Ian Anderson

#84. Theology being the work of males, original sin was traced to the female.

Barbara W. Tuchman

#85. It is also interesting to note that the original supermodels are now making a comeback after being dismissed in the Nineties as being 'greedy' by a gaggle of male designers who lived like Sun Kings.

Julie Burchill

#86. It is with considerable difficulty that I remember the original era of my being ...

Mary Shelley

#87. Yes, translation is by definition an inadequate substitute for being able to read a masterpiece in the original.

Terry Teachout

#88. [M]an cannot be wicked without being evil, nor evil without being degraded, nor degraded without being punished, nor punished without being guilty. In short ... there is nothing so intrinsically plausible as the theory of original sin.

Joseph De Maistre

#89. Be original, give people a chance to love you for being you.

Tina J. Richardson

#90. Oh Cecelia, you would have loved my grandmother, Miz Goodpepper said, dunking a cookie into her wine. She was so alive and full of original ideas, especially for that era. While other women were busy being proper, she was busy cultivating her spirit.

Beth Hoffman

#91. The fascination of somebody with original creative gifts is something that's always drawn me. I get attached to them, but I can't call it being in love, because the words are so debased.

Emma Tennant

#92. I believe that any form of art is a species of exploration and transgression ... Art by its nature is a transgressive act, and artists must accept being punished for it. The more original and unsettling their art, the more devastating the punishment.

Joyce Carol Oates

#93. Horrors, I believe, should be original - the use of common myths and legends being a weakening influence.

H.P. Lovecraft

#94. It seemed like an original act, the very kindest act of being human, that he listened.

Sue Woolfe

#95. One essential ingredient for being an original in the day of copies is courageous vision.

Charles R. Swindoll

#96. Meditation is a death - death of all that you are now. Of course there will be a resurrection, but that will be a totally new, fresh original being which you are not even aware is hidden in you.

Rajneesh

#97. The world is forever babbling of originality; but there never yet was an original man, in the sense intended by the world; the first man himself
who according to the Rabbins was also the first author
not being an original; the only original author being God.

Herman Melville

#98. If you do not express your own original ideas, if you do not listen to your own being, you will have betrayed yourself. -Rollo May

Rollo May

#99. Living original means being confident that God made you in a really cool, unique way

Sadie Robertson

#100. This is the thing they don't tell you about being a third wheel - it's not like you're the wheel that's added on. You were one of the original two wheels, but suddenly you're not so important anymore. The relationship drives fine without you.

David Levithan