Originality consists in trying to be like everybody else and failing.

Originality consists in trying to be like everybody else and failing.

The source of sorrows lies not in leaving life, but in leaving that which gives it meaning.

Great success in examinations does naturally not as a rule go with originality of thought.

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

Millions of men have lived to fight, build palaces and boundaries, shape destinies and societies; but the compelling force of all times has been the force of originality and creation profoundly affecting the roots of human spirit.

True originality consists not in a new manner but in a new vision.

Just keep thinking about the good side of ADD - the creativity and the originality it can stimulate.

Originality is undetected plagiarism.

Originality is really important.

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.

Originality is simply a pair of fresh eyes.

Originality is the art of concealing your source.

When I came up, it was all about originality and collective research. There is an awful lot of imitation going on now.

Most people think an artist tries to be original, but originality is the last thing that develops in the artist.

I always try to improve, to find new ways of expressing myself, to keep looking for truth and originality.

But the French writers always had more originality and independence than others, and that regulator, which elsewhere was religion, long since ceased to exist for them.

I think it's a great document of John Stevens' originality. At that time he was already much more fully formed in his conception than I was. I was sort of struggling to keep up, and sometimes it's pretty obvious.

Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself.

The greater intellect one has, the more originality one finds in men. Ordinary persons find no difference between men.

The secret of all effective originality in advertising is not the creation of new and tricky words and pictures, but one of putting familiar words and pictures into new relationships.

Originality is the essence of true scholarship. Creativity is the soul of the true scholar.

Knowing how to paint and to use one's colors rightly has not any connection with originality. This originality consists in properly expressing your own impressions.

Originality depends only on the character of the drawing and the vision peculiar to each artist.

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.

Originality usually amounts only to plagiarizing something unfamiliar.

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.

Originality is not seen in single words or even in sentences. Originality is the sum total of a man's thinking or his writing.

Originality exists in every individual because each of us differs from the others. We are all primary numbers divisible only by ourselves.

Mistakes are the only universal form of originality.

Originality is nothing but judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed one from another.

Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality.

Originality is, for me, the most important quality in a script.

Originality consists in trying to be like everybody else and failing.

The principle mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.

About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgment.

What is originality? Undetected plagiarism.

He's a man of great common sense and good taste - meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.

No art form points like poetry to this originality of language as to its essential and abiding concern.

A man of great common sense and good taste - meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.

I love romantic comedies. I like to watch them and I like to be in them. It's something that's increasingly difficult to find that spark of originality that makes if different than the ones that come before.

Some writers confuse authenticity, which they ought always to aim at, with originality, which they should never bother about.

All good things which exist are the fruits of originality.

Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it.

The writer of originality, unless dead, is always shocking, scandalous; novelty disturbs and repels.

When I was coming up, we weren't trying to get a hit or get paid, we were just trying to do our thing. The only thing we were really trying to do was to be recognized for our originality.

Ice dance should not be seen as a rigid conformist form of figure skating. There is a great deal of freedom and originality to be had.

We shall be forced to attempt planned and directed research employing hundreds of workers for many years, and this cannot be done without risking the loss of independence and originality. This is a serious and fundamental obstacle but it may be overcome in two ways.

Originality implies being bold enough to go beyond accepted norms.