Quotes by Originality What is valuable is not new, and what is new is not valuable. Daniel Webster originality valuable novelty Make a technical contribution; innovate, don't emulate. David Packer originality contribution design As long as you can Houdini your way out of the Sisyphean constraints then originality happens. David Mitchell originality long way The only thing worth doing is what's never been done before. David Salle originality done Your turn has come to sift through the dreck of humanity for rare specks of originality David Mitchell specks originality humanity Style; all who have it have have one thing: originality. Diana Vreeland originality style fashion Originality is when you mix two things that haven't been mixed. DJ Marlboro originality dancer two There is no such thing as a completely original technique or subject. Donald Lambert originality subjects technique It's certainly going to be different from what people have seen before. Donald Lambert originality different people A facility for quotation covers the absence of original thought. Dorothy L. Sayers original-thought originality political True originality consists not in a new manner but in a new vision. Edith Wharton originality vision literature If in many of my productions terror has been the thesis, I maintain that terror is not of Germany, but of the soul. Edgar Allan Poe originality germany soul Great success in examinations does naturally not as a rule go with originality of thought. Edward Carpenter originality examination doe Imitation, if noble and general, insures the best hope of originality. Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton originality noble imagination Profundity and originality are attributes of single, if not singular, minds. Edwin Land originality individuality mind Originality in art puts charm where it wasn't. Eli Siegel originality fairness art I'm not like anyone. I'm me. Elizabeth Taylor originality A poor original is better than a good imitation. Ella Wheeler Wilcox originality imitation poor it is wiser to be conventionally immoral than unconventionally moral. It isn't the immorality they object to, but the originality. Ellen Glasgow originality wiser morality To overestimate the originality of one's thoughts is perhaps a less serious defect than being unaware of their newness. There is a more pronounced lack of sensitivity in underestimating (ourselves and others) than in overestimating. Eric Hoffer originality underestimate serious «1234567891011»