393 Quotes About Originality

No such thing as original thought. We are shadows of stars that burned before our time.

Most people will never learn the lessons meant for them in this lifetime, nor become the person they were meant to be, simply because they are too busy being someone else, or someone they are not.

Telling a novelist to come up with a new idea is like telling a painter to come up with a new color. There are no new ideas... but there are new combinations of ideas.

Your mind is the fuel, but creative thinking will really get you flying

Only those with no memory insist on their originality.

Everything that glitters more than gold is not gold.

Creativity is the ability to produce ideas that are both original and valuable.

Common people are often enough; that is why God made so many of them. Your job is to be--- EXTRAORDINARY.

I believe in the power of origins, a belief that, as Ecclesiastes put it, 'that wich is done is that wich shall be done: and there is no new thing under de sun'; that we claim as originality and discovery are nothing but the airs and delusios of our innocence, ignorance, and arrogance: that whatever is said was said better - more powerfully, beautifully, and purely, long ago