Shaquille O'Neal Quotes

There's only one spot in history for the first ever of anything.

My only two constants are to challenge myself and to try not to repeat myself.

Originality is only variation.

People are always talking about originality, but what do they mean? As soon as we are born, the world begins to work upon us, and this goes on to the end.

What the world calls originality is only an unaccustomed method of tickling it.

I love stories and I don't like to repeat myself. And I look for new stuff, and as they say it gets harder.

It's quite rare that you make something and think that you did something that no-one else had done.

When you want to do something that is challenging or interesting or new, you never find the place. All the places are obvious or old or generic. And so you realize that the role of architecture is fundamental.

Novelty in all things is charming.

Creating a piece of software is always complicated because you're doing something new. If you just wanted something that had been done before you'd just use that old piece of software. So there are no repetitive tasks.

If everyone thinks you have a good idea, you´re too late

I try to never repeat a character. I always try to find something new and fresh and interesting that inspires me.

Embrace what you don't know, especially in the beginning, because what you don't know can become your greatest asset. It ensures that you will absolutely be doing things different from everybody else.

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

It's always good to do something that is not a repeat. I just don't believe in repeating.

When good is near you, when you have life in yourself, it is not by any known or accustomed way; you shall not discern the foot-prints of any other; you shall not see the face of man; you shall not hear any name; the way, the thought, the good, shall be wholly strange and new. It shall exclude example and experience.

You have to be doing something very different from what everybody else is doing, hopefully different from what's ever been done before - something that nobody's thought of yet.

Nothing I've done is like anything else I've done before.

Lack of originality, everywhere, all over the world, from time immemorial, has always been considered the foremost quality and the recommendation of the active, efficient and practical man.

Story is about originality, not duplication

Firsts are best because they are beginnings

What I try to do with any of my stories, any of my novels, is make them feel very original.

Utter originality is, of course, out of the question.

I dont want to create a monster; I want to make something which is new, exceptional, something that only I do...something that references tradition, but is still new.

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