Originality Quotes

"You have to learn the rules to be able to know how to break them."

- Keira Knightley

"The thing about smart people is that they seem like crazy people to dumb people."

- Stephen Hawking

"There is no element of genius without some form of madness."

- Leonardo DiCaprio

"Normal is not something to aspire to, it’s something to get away from."

- Jodie Foster

"You are remembered for the rules you break."

- Phil Knight

"Bitcoin is a swarm of cyber hornets serving the goddess of wisdom, feeding on the fire of truth, exponentially growing ever smarter, faster, and stronger behind a wall of encrypted energy."

- Michael J. Saylor

"If it is stupid but it works, it isn't stupid. (a Shin'a'in saying)"

- Mercedes Lackey

"A great artist is always before his time or behind it."

- George Moore

"To copy the truth can be a good thing, but to invent the truth is better, much better."

- Giuseppe Verdi

"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."

- C.S. Lewis

"I detest imitation, I detest hackneyed devices."

- Sergei Prokofiev

"How can a president not be an actor?"

- Ronald Reagan

"Before I refuse to take your questions, I have an opening statement."

- Ronald Reagan

"You have to be odd to be number 1."

- Dr. Seuss

"One morning I shot an elephant in my pajamas. How he got in my pajamas, I don't know."

- Animal Crackers (1930)

"A martini. Shaken, not stirred."

- Goldfinger (1964)

"Who's on first."

- The Naughty Nineties (1945)

"No one ever made a difference by being like everyone else."

- The Greatest Showman

"I think perfection is ugly. Somewhere in the things humans make, I want to see scars, failure, disorder, distortion."

- Yohji Yamamoto

"If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking."

- Haruki Murakami

"I prefer to be on the side of losers, the misunderstood or lonely people rather than writing about the strong and powerful."

- Núria Añó

"Did everyone see that? Because I will not be doing it again."

- Pirates of the Caribbean

"The organizations that succeed realize that offering a remarkable product with a great story is more important and more profitable than doing what everyone else is doing just a bit better."

- Seth Godin

"Towering genius disdains a beaten path. It seeks regions hitherto unexplored."

- Abraham Lincoln

"The phrase ‘domestic cat’ is an oxymoron."

- George Will

"The smallest feline is a masterpiece."

- Leonardo da Vinci

"My little brother may follow in my footsteps, but he leaves his own unique imprint on the world."

- Unknown

"Be like the stem cell, differentiate yourself from others."

"Don’t be afraid to be different. Your unique perspective is a gift, share it with the world."

"Be a voice not an echo"