Quotes About Individuality

Diferente, no sólo mejor

Crazy Is a Compliment: The Power of Zigging When Everyone Else Zags.

there is only one you, and no one can do things exactly the way you do. Never worry about the competition.

It's good to recognize trends, but if you follow them, you get sucked into them, and then you also fall with the trend.

often in people's 30s or 40s, a stage where you begin crafting your own language for what you do as an increasingly "strong poet"—you make your craft your own and view your life as more self-expression than simply playing out other people's roles for you.

When I articulated that I didn't care anymore about what anybody thought about what I did except me, all the weight of the world came off my shoulders, and everything became possible. It shifted to everybody else [being] worried. Now they're worried. But everything for me, it shifted to a place where I felt free.

Dime algo en lo que tú creas y otras personas encuentran demencial».

By focusing inward on yourself as a writer instead of outward on what you think readers will want to read, you'll end up creating the best and most original work, and that one-in-a-thousand person who happens to love it will end up finding their way to you.

Top academic institutions are wonderful, but there are unrecognized benefits to not coming out of one. Grads from top schools are funneled into high-income 80-hour-per-week jobs, and 15–30 years of soul-crushing work has been accepted as the default path.

When you're creative, you render competition obsolete, because there is only one you, and no one can do things exactly the way you do. Never worry about the competition. When you're creative, you can, in fact, cheer others on with the full knowledge that their success will undoubtedly be your own.

Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. —MARK TWAIN

Art Is Socialism, but Life Is Capitalism "My wife made the observation that everyone's equal on stage, but off stage, they're completely unequal." Mike wrote down, "Art is socialism but life is capitalism," and that became a guiding principle for his film Don't Think Twice.

What are some of the choices you've made that made you who you are?

Think for yourself while being radically open-minded." Ray Dalio

Question Cal Suggests Asking People More Often "What are some of the choices you've made that made you who you are?

Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it's time to pause and reflect." —Mark Twain.

The second strategy is fairly easy. Everyone has at least a few areas in which they could be in the top 25% with some effort. In my case, I can draw better than most people, but I'm hardly an artist. And I'm not any funnier than the average standup comedian who never makes it big, but I'm funnier than most people. The magic is that few people can draw well and write jokes. It's the combination of the two that makes what I do so rare.

The core of it was to be your unapologetically weird self. I think authenticity is one of the most lacking things out there these days.

Ultimately, your gift to the world is being who you are. It is both your gift and your fulfillment.

I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence." –Frederick Douglass

No aceptes las normas de tu tiempo

You learn the secret of this business, which is there's no secret. Be yourself.

Básicamente es la idea de que es fácil que oigas decir tu nombre en medio de una multitud.

create yourself, instead of seeking to discover yourself.