Rajneesh Quotes

Don't look at all at what other people are doing. Think of what you're doing as completely fresh because if you imitate you're dead.

Teaching for creativity aims to encourage self-confidence, independence of mind, and the capacity to think for oneself.

Imitation is for shirkers, like-minded-ness for the comfort lovers, unifying for the creators.

Man is an idiot. He doesn't know how to do anything without copying, without imitating, without plagiarizing, without aping. It might even have been that man invented generation by coitus after seeing the grasshopper copulate.

It's never good to just imitate somebody. That never works, because then you're not filling it with anything.

It's hard work to find your own voice and not to copycat anything.

No man was ever great by imitation.

If you copy then it is not self-expression.

To form our taste, we must neither depreciate nor imitate, but we should understand and originate.

The minute you succumb to outside pressure, you cease to be creative.

I think most people don't like others who, without a voice of their own, emulate the other. I certainly don't want anybody just to pick up my thoughts and hand them back to me.

I'm into emulation, not imitation.

I never liked to copy things that are out there. I always like to come up with something new, something different.

It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.

I'd rather do my own performance than copy someone else's.

You want to stake your own claim. You don't want to be called a copycat.

At the end of the day, you can't do a copy of somebody.

I like to create something that's unique and kind of true to myself and authentic and everything. I don't really like to mirror myself after different artists.

Sometimes you find your voice by trying to write like people, and sometimes you find it by trying to write unlike people.

I say to my pupils, 'You can pitch me any thing you've got, but tell me why you're the only person who can write it in the world. Keep digging.'

Trends are dangerous; you will fail if you design for them. You cannot follow the work of others. I have my own DNA, my own formula. I always stay true to myself and to the brand.

Everything I do is me. I don't like taking ideas from people unless they're the G.O.A.T.

Born originals, how comes it to pass that we die copies? That meddling ape imitation, as soon as we come to years of indiscretion, (so let me speak,) snatches the pen, and blots out nature's mark of separation, cancels her kind intention, destroys all mental individuality. The lettered world no longer consists of singulars: it is a medley, a mass; and a hundred books, at bottom, are but one.

Originality is... a by-product of sincerity.

To live is to express, and to express you have to create. Creation is never merely repetition. To live is to express oneself freely in creation.