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There are many selfish people who are extremely original, then they take those pure ideas and use them to raise themselves up, that is an insincere move.

— Daniel Smith

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✓Similar Perspectives

When people are very original, sometimes they are original as a way to resist the mainstream.

— Michel Gondry

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

— Thomas Carlyle

Originality is the one thing which unoriginal minds cannot feel the use of.

— John Stuart Mill

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

— Thomas Carlyle

Some of us have great original ideas and some of us depend on adaptations.

— Frank Darabont

A spirit of innovation is generally the result of a selfish temper and confined views. People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.

— Edmund Burke

Originality is nothing but judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed one from another.

— Voltaire

We Americans love original ideas. But truly, there are already plenty of good ones out there, ours for the taking. If I were too proud to copy the ideas of others, I likely wouldn't have even a fraction of my current success.

— Mohnish Pabrai

There are no original ideas. There are only original people.

— Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than in the one where they sprang up.

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

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