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Millions of men have lived to fight, build palaces and boundaries, shape destinies and societies; but the compelling force of all times has been the force of originality and creation profoundly affecting the roots of human spirit.

Some writers confuse authenticity, which they ought always to aim at, with originality, which they should never bother about.

Originality is the essence of true scholarship. Creativity is the soul of the true scholar.

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

The writer of originality, unless dead, is always shocking, scandalous; novelty disturbs and repels.

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.

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

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.

Originality is a thing we constantly clamour for, and constantly quarrel with.

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

Great success in examinations does naturally not as a rule go with originality of thought.

Originality is really important.

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

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.

When I was coming up, we weren't trying to get a hit or get paid, we were just trying to do our thing. The only thing we were really trying to do was to be recognized for our originality.

Mistakes are the only universal form of originality.

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.

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.

Most people think an artist tries to be original, but originality is the last thing that develops in the artist.

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