#origin

Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean, you will never be strong or original. Stand alone or bury your ambition to be somebody in the world. ↗

— Orison Swett Marden

#ambition #be strong #bury #destroys #else

A great literary work can be completely, completely unpredictable. Which can sometimes make them very hard to read, but it gives them a great originality. ↗

— Yann Martel

#gives #great #hard #literary #literary work

Laws and customs may be creative of vice; and should be therefore perpetually under process of observation and correction: but laws and customs cannot be creative of virtue: they may encourage and help to preserve it; but they cannot originate it. ↗

— Harriet Martineau

#correction #creative #customs #encourage #help

You study, you learn, but you guard the original naivete. It has to be within you, as desire for drink is within the drunkard or love is within the lover. ↗

— Henri Matisse

#drink #drunkard #guard #learn #love

I originally envisioned myself doing something with the suffix 'ology' at the end of it, like marine biology or entomology. But after I started to do some acting gigs, I thought it wasn't a bad thing... I said to myself, 'I might as well keep riding this bus until the wheels fall off.' ↗

— Callan McAuliffe

#after #bad #bad thing #biology #bus

If you want to be original just try being yourself, because God has never made two people exactly alike. ↗

— Bernard Meltzer

#be original #because #being #being yourself #exactly

A society made up of individuals who were all capable of original thought would probably be unendurable. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#individuals #made #original #probably #society

You know how much I am inclined to explain all disputes among philosophical schools as merely verbal disputes or at least to derive them originally from verbal disputes. ↗

— Moses Mendelssohn

#among #derive #disputes #explain #how

I am honored to be a Bond girl and be a part of the Bond legacy, To star in a video game with Connery, the original Bond, is incredible. ↗

— Maria Menounos

#bond #bond girl #connery #game #girl

Casting is really exciting. With 'Twilight,' I wasn't involved at all with the casting in the original. They kept me in the loop, which was great. They'd be like, 'Hey Kristen Stewart's gonna do it' and I was like, 'Really? Awesome.' ↗

— Stephenie Meyer

#casting #exciting #gonna #great #hey