“It was the passions about whose origin we deceived ourselves that tyrannized most strongly over us. Our weakest motives were those of whose nature we were conscious. It often happened that when we thought we were experimenting on others we were really experimenting on ourselves.”
Oscar Wilde
“Insist upon yourself. Be original.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“It is wrong to think that misfortunes come from the east or from the west; they originate within one's own mind. Therefore, it is foolish to guard against misfortunes from the external world and leave the inner mind uncontrolled.”
Buddha
“Originality exists in every individual because each of us differs from the others. We are all primary numbers divisible only by ourselves.”
Jean Guitton
“It is not permitted to a man who takes up pen or chisel, to seek originality, for passion is his only business, and he cannot but mould or sing after a new fashion because no disaster is like another.”
William Butler Yeats
“Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is man's original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion.”
“It's much easier to be the best at something no one has ever done before.”
Rain Bojangles
