Originality Quotes
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Grand, gloomy, and peculiar, he sat upon the throne a sceptred hermit, wrapped in the solitude of his own originality.
Charles Phillips
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The qualities in music which I considered most important - and still do - were beauty, simplicity, originality, discrimination, and sincerity.
Paul Desmond
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Originality is simply a pair of fresh eyes.
Thomas Wentworth Higginson
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Originality, of course, is what occurs when something new arises out of what's already been done.
Stephen Dunn
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To write well, to have style ... is to paint. The master faculty of style is therefore the visual memory. If a writer does not see what he describes-countrysides and figures, movements and gestures-how could he have a style, that is originality?
Remy de Gourmont
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Love remains a relation with the Other that turns into need, transcendent exteriority of the other, of the beloved. But love goes beyond the beloved... The possibility of the Other appearing as an object of a need while retaining his alterity, or again,the possibility of enjoying the Other... this simultaneity of need and desire, or concupiscence and transcendence,... constitutes the originality of the erotic which, in this sense, is the equivocal par excellence.
Emmanuel Levinas
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Pain is always new to the sufferer, but loses its originality for those around him.
Alphonse Daudet
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In this world, one thing you should definitely strive for is originality. Just be who you are, and be your own person. That's what will make you stand out.
Nolan Gould
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Chess problems demand from the composer the same virtues that characterize all worthwhile art: originality, invention, conciseness, harmony, complexity, and splendid insincerity
Vladimir Nabokov
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It is sometimes necessary to repeat what all know. All mapmakers should place the Mississippi in the same location and avoid originality.
Saul Bellow
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Do not shun this maxim because it is common-place. On the contrary, take the closest heed of what observant men, who would probably like to show originality, are yet constrained to repeat. Therein lies the marrow of the wisdom of the world.
Arthur Helps
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For me, the arts are just an endless source of intelligence, brilliance, imagination, and originality.
Gail Levin
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The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity.
Thomas Carlyle
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The so-called ‘crank’ may be quite original in his ideas. … Invention, however, in the engineering sense involves originality; but not that alone, if the results are to be of value. There is imagination more or less fertile, but with it a knowledge of what has been done before, carried perhaps by the memory, together with a sense of the present or prospective needs in art or industry. Necessity is not always the mother of invention. It may be prevision.
Elihu Thomson
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Every true poet, I thought, must be original and originality a condition of poetic genius; so that each poet is like a species in nature (not an individuum genericum or specificum ) and can never recur. That nothing shd. be old or borrowed however cannot be.
Gerard Manley Hopkins
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Show some originality and never wear one designer head to toe.
Patrick Cox
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The senses do not deceive us, but the judgment does.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Yet he saw that in all places there was originality, resulting from the human efforts at decoration and ingenious methods of survival.
Michael O'Brien
