#original

How are we suppose to thrive when everything we do in life is done to hinder us? We know more from the streets than from school. More from movies than books. The world is constantly trying to contain you, to make your life harder. You have to break free from this viscous current. Don't you see? Or you will be swept away into a sea of ordinary. ↗

— B.S. Wood

#difficulties #hope #inspirational #learning #motivational

Originality is simply a pair of fresh eyes. ↗

— Thomas W. Higginson

#fresh #originality #pair #simply

My background was in performing originally. ↗

— Cy Coleman

#originally #performing

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

— Nnamdi Azikiwe

#essence #originality #scholar #scholarship #soul

By that time I was hooked on a career in academic research instead of one in the pharmaceutical industry that I had originally considered in deciding to get a PhD. ↗

— Paul Berg

#career #considered #deciding #get #had

A man treats his own faults as original sin and supposes them scattered everywhere with the seed of Adam. He supposes that men have then added their own foreign vices to the solid and simple foundation of his own private vices. It would astound him to realize that they have actually, by their strange erratic path, avoided his vices as well as his virtues. ↗

— G.K. Chesterton

#vice #virtue #men

Punk was originally about creating new, important, energetic music that would hopefully threaten the status quo and the stupidity of the 1970s. ↗

— Jello Biafra

#creating #energetic #hopefully #important #music

When we look back, the only things we cherish are those which in some way met our original want; the desire which formed in us in early youth, undirected, and of its own accord. ↗

— Willa Cather

#back #cherish #desire #early #formed