Originalität / Originality Zitate auf Englisch

Zitat des Tages über Originalität / Originality:

About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgment. Josh Billings

The burden of originality is one that most people don't want to accept. They'd rather sit in front of the TV and let that tell them what they're supposed to like, what they're supposed to buy, and what they're supposed to laugh at.

Marilyn Manson

It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.

Herman Melville

Stuart Hall was an utterly unique figure. Although he arrived at the age of 19 from Jamaica and spent the rest of his life here, he never felt at home in Britain. This juxtaposition was a crucial source of his strength and originality. Because of his colour and origin, he saw the country differently - not as a native, but as an outsider.

Martin Jacques

Originality is simply a pair of fresh eyes.

Thomas Wentworth Higginson

'Krampus' had a certain originality about it, so I jumped on board.

Toni Collette

When I came up, it was all about originality and collective research. There is an awful lot of imitation going on now.

Steve Lacy

The secret of all effective originality in advertising is not the creation of new and tricky words and pictures, but one of putting familiar words and pictures into new relationships.

Leo Burnett

I believe in originality, primarily. However, it's important to know what there has been before to aim in that direction. Art history informs us. It informs our mind. I like to look at books, exhibitions, paintings, as a computer, subconsciously taking on information.

Philip Treacy

We shall be forced to attempt planned and directed research employing hundreds of workers for many years, and this cannot be done without risking the loss of independence and originality. This is a serious and fundamental obstacle but it may be overcome in two ways.

John Desmond Bernal

Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself.

James Stephens

What is originality? Undetected plagiarism.

William Inge

Knowing how to paint and to use one's colors rightly has not any connection with originality. This originality consists in properly expressing your own impressions.

Thomas Couture

About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgment.

Josh Billings

But the French writers always had more originality and independence than others, and that regulator, which elsewhere was religion, long since ceased to exist for them.

Henryk Sienkiewicz

All good things which exist are the fruits of originality.

John Stuart Mill

Knowledge comes from the past, so it's safe. It is also out of date. It's the opposite of originality... Experience is the opposite of being creative.

Paul Arden

Nearly all our originality comes from the stamp that time impresses upon our sensibility.

Charles Baudelaire

The principle mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.

Arthur Koestler

Originality exists in every individual because each of us differs from the others. We are all primary numbers divisible only by ourselves.

Jean Guitton

I love romantic comedies. I like to watch them and I like to be in them. It's something that's increasingly difficult to find that spark of originality that makes if different than the ones that come before.

Julia Roberts

Cinema reflects culture and there is no harm in adapting technology, but not at the cost of losing your originality.

Jackie Chan

Take a commonplace, clean it and polish it, light it so that it produces the same effect of youth and freshness and originality and spontaneity as it did originally, and you have done a poet's job. The rest is literature.

Jean Cocteau

Ice dance should not be seen as a rigid conformist form of figure skating. There is a great deal of freedom and originality to be had.

Robin Cousins

The prerequisite of originality is the art of forgetting, at the proper moment, what we know.

Arthur Koestler

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

The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity.

Thomas Carlyle

Just keep thinking about the good side of ADD - the creativity and the originality it can stimulate.

David Neeleman

Originality is undetected plagiarism.

William Inge

Originality implies being bold enough to go beyond accepted norms.

Anthony Storr

Because of this, originality consists in returning to the origin.

Antoni Gaudi

Originality is the art of concealing your source.

Franklin P. Jones

I am attracted to arguments that have a certain plausible originality to them.

Dinesh D'Souza

Cockneys make good beggars. They are held in high esteem by the fraternity in America. Their resource, originality and invention, and a never-faltering tongue enable them to often attain their ends where others fail, and they succeed where the natives starve.

W. H. Davies

Originality is nothing but judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed one from another.

Voltaire

Originality depends only on the character of the drawing and the vision peculiar to each artist.

Georges Seurat

Originality is, for me, the most important quality in a script.

Douglas Wood