…originality is little morethan the fine blending of influences.
– Teju Cole
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- The voice sang on, -œI am ready, I am ready, I am fine. I am fine, I am fine, I am fine.- I played it again. I was not fine. – Kimberly Novosel
- It wasn’t a deception: all lovers live on partial knowledge. – Teju Cole
- What we seem to perceive influences what we feel, and what we feel influences what we say we perceive – Jenefer Robinson
- What you look for in the world influences what materializes. What you perceive in the people around you influences how they show up. – Niurka
- The exercise of blending people’s problem-solving abilities to produce the desired outcome is a worthwhile thing to do. – Pearl Zhu
- I sighed immersed in a sleeping sea. A ripple that turned into waves and then storm, stirring and blending our troubled waters – Luca Ferrarini
- I tried to make my life colorful with Red, Green and Blue……. ohh god… my perfection in blending made it white !!! – Saket Assertive
- And then things would be fine. Then I’d be fine. – Sarah J Maas
- Fine minds are seldom fine souls. – Jean Paul Friedrich Richter
- Everything will be fine in the end. If it’s not fine, it’s not the end. – JB Carlson
- People say you have expensive tastes.My Humble reply : I appreciate fine art, and fine art is not cheap. – Pushkar Saraf
- It was all fine until the girls started drinking. (Everything is always fine up until that point.) – John duover
- My hope is that tomorrow will be fine, but, if tomorrow doesn’t go well, I shall still hope to be fine tomorrow! – Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
- Solitude is fine but you need someone to tell that solitude is fine. – Honor de Balzac
- Everything was fine, would continue to be fine, would eventually get even better as long as the supermarket did not slip. – Don DeLillo
- Richness and fat does need,In logic clever fine deeds,But paunches never do breed,Fine thoughts or sublime seeds.[45] – 2 – Munindra Misra
- I don’t know why you’re enjoying this so much.--œBecause I am a connoisseur of fine irony. ‘Tis a bit like fine wine, but has a better bite. – Lynn Kurland
- They say copying is a form of flattery, I say it’s lack of originality. – Elizabeth Blade
- Success is no proof of virtue. In the case of a book, quick acclaim is presumptive evidence of a lack of substance and originality. – Walter Kaufmann
- Originality must compound with inheritance. – Harold Bloom
- The human spirit’s unquenchable drive for originality and compulsion for creating art is the compelling force of our humanity. – Kilroy J Oldster
- The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers. – Arthur Koestler
- Creativity can solve almost any problem. The creative act, the defeat of habit by originality, overcomes everything. – George Lois
- Originality brings more bumps in the road, yet it leaves us with more happiness and a greater sense of meaning. – Adam Grant
- Creativity is easy.Originality is difficult.Relevance is a bitch. – Mark Rude
- If your looking to write a book, your creativity, originality and simplicity is what will distinguish you. – Onyi Anyado
- The value of an artist is more because of his originality than his skill. – Amit Kalantri
- It is not commercial success but originality and proof of autonomy which are admired. – Angela Phillips
- There is nothing higher-class than real craftsmanship, diversity, originality and the service of skilled human hands. – Bryant McGill
- If you can persist your originality at every situation without masking your face, undoubtedly you are an achiever! – Nelson Jack
- Only those with no memory insist on their originality. – Coco Chanel
- Some writers confuse authenticity, which they ought always to aim at, with originality, which they should never bother about. – WH Auden
- Throw away the servility of imitation, and rise to the manliness of originality. – Charles Haddon Spurgeon
- Originality is not writing the story that has never been told, but writing the stories only you can tell. – M Kirin
- Originality, not Intelligence, is the sign of a brilliant Author. All the Education in the world won’t help someone who can’t think for themselves. – AM Sawyer
- Originality is the death of mediocrity. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- Talent is a long patience, and originality an effort of will and intense observation. – Gustave Flaubert
- Canonical writing is born of an originality fused with tradition. -“ From the book jacket – Harold Bloom
- Admirations are never paid in any way, try to make yourself of what you admire, and it will pay you with originality. – Auliq Ice
- Madness, genius, originality – it’s all the same thing; it’s a breaking of our normal value structure and the substitution of another one. – Malcolm Bradbury