originality

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Never forget the child inside

If you are saying the same thing as everyone else, then why would and why should anyone think you are different from everyone else?

The presence of hundreds of books had finally convinced Hermione that what they were doing was right.

Any local music scene at any point in time can be referred to as derivative of more well-known acts. The line separating influence from imitation is a blurry one. Very few artists are completely original; even great artists build upon what has occurred before, and add their personality and talent to create their own original expression.

You're an original, an individual, a masterpiece. Celebrate that; don't let your uniqueness make you shy. Don't be someone other than the wonder you are. Every star is important to the sky.

Any fool can do something cool and look cool, but it takes skill to make something uncool cool again.

Be yourself. An original is worth more than a copy.Style is King, 2008.

Madness, genius, originality - it's all the same thing; it's a breaking of our normal value structure and the substitution of another one.

Admirations are never paid in any way, try to make yourself of what you admire, and it will pay you with originality.

When your ideas shatter established thought, expect blowback.

It's okay to write a cliché in a first draft; it sets a marker that you can get far, far away from in the rewrites.

Don__ try to be original, just try to be good.

Following a trend is useful, until you start alienating the original. The last thing we want is to live in a world where everything is the same. Originality and individuality is key.

No mathematician should ever allow him to forget that mathematics, more than any other art or science, is a young man's game. _ Galois died at twenty-one, Abel at twenty-seven, Ramanujan at thirty-three, Riemann at forty. There have been men who have done great work later; _ [but] I do not know of a single instance of a major mathematical advance initiated by a man past fifty. _ A mathematician may still be competent enough at sixty, but it is useless to expect him to have original ideas.

When you release the illusion of control, you begin an effortless free-fall toward a grand reunion with your original self.

It is commonly said to my little friend Legion: Read the great writers for style. But I say to him: Read the great dead masters for ideas. Devour them, Fletcherize them, digest, assimilate, make them part of your blood; let the enriched blood visit your brain. The resultant activities will be fairly your own, and the little kinks and convolutions of your brain, which are entirely different from the kinks of any other brain, will furnish you all the style you will ever get.There are no really fresh ideas; just as there is not any fresh air. Air and ideas are refreshed and refreshing, vitalized and vitalizing; but the thoughts have been thought before and the air has been breathed before.

Originality is the key to being memorable.