#original

When your efforts run in the face of conventional wisdom and accepted mastery, persistence can look like madness. If you succeed in the end, this extreme originality reformulates into a new level of mastery, sometimes even genius; if you fail in the end, you remain a madman in the eyes of others, and maybe even yourself. When you are in the midst of the journey…there’s really no way of knowing which one you are.” (p.129) ↗

— Hilary Austen

#conventional-wisdom #effort #extreme-originality #genius #journey

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

— James Stephens

#consist #does #ever #exactly #originality

Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new after all. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#originality #unique #thought

And doing so you can recreate yourself and you can also come up with something that is not only original and creative and artistic, but also maybe even decent, or moral if I can use words like that, or something that's like basically good. ↗

— Lester Bangs

#artistic #basically #come #creative #decent

It is only in the shadows, when some fresh wave, truly original, truly creative, breaks upon the shore, that there will be a rediscovery of the West. ↗

— Jacques Barzun

#creative #fresh #only #original #shadows

Obviously everybody knows that I'm an original songwriter and I got my band. And the guys in 'Sugar Money,' no matter what, are part of my family and they always got something to do with me, and I don't care if they just hang out with me. ↗

— Bo Bice

#band #care #everybody #family #got

But I can't say that I didn't like John Hammond's performances often better than the originals. ↗

— Warren Zevon

#hammond #i #john #like #often

I guess many game music fans prefer original soundtrack albums. ↗

— Nobuo Uematsu

#fans #game #game music #guess #i

Those who seek to satisfy the mind of man by hampering it with ceremonies and music and affecting charity and devotion have lost their original nature. ↗

— Zhuangzi

#ceremonies #charity #devotion #lost #man

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

#creation #effective #familiar #into #new