Tim Ferriss Quotes

Originality houses many rooms, and the views from the windows are all different.

I try as hard as I can for everything to be different from one movie to the next.

What's lucky about my career in general is that I stumbled into what every writer most wants. Not repeating myself and doing strange things has become my trademark.

Originality is really important.

I wanted each of my books to be very different from the others, each to be special and uncategorizable, and I knew I could only do that a few times before I was in danger of repeating myself.

Aside from 'Hatchet II' and 'Hatchet III,' I've never repeated myself. I try to keep doing things that are totally different.

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

If they haven't heard it before it's original.

When something works for you or another brand, ask yourself, 'Why?' Then don't copy it but think about what you can do that's unique to you and better.

We've all forgotten how to be original.

Well, you know, I feel like it's about a lot of things. The reason that I made it was because I thought it was really funny and unique and just a different genre.

I like to do things that are surprising and different.

I've got nothing very original to say myself.

You always have to find some new ways. Old ways are too known.

I'm someone who always wants to do everything differently. If I have a pattern, I'd rather I didn't have a pattern. I want every book to be unpredictable and new. Damn it!

I think it's more important to make a lot of different things and keep coming up with new images and things that were never made before, than to do one thing and do it well.

When we started Aventura, I think a lot of - the reason why we became so successful besides, you know, doing good music, was also the fact that it was unique and different and never done.

I always make sure that every film of mine has some element of freshness to it.

We do worry that we might be making something we've made before. It's important that we make something we've never made before.

My mandate to myself since I've been involved in these movies was 'make every single movie different, so there's never 'X-Men' fatigue.'

Of course you can't do anything completely original.

Agents and publishers are always looking for something 'different,' a fresh viewpoint and a new voice, not just re-hashed versions of stuff that's gone before.

The movies I do have to be different in some way. Nothing vanilla will do.

What makes a book unique isn't always about having one big grand new idea. It's about combining many different ideas in new and interesting ways.

There's only so many things you can do with fights, so I'm always trying to shake it up and find something different, new, exciting and fun.