Quotes About Originality

It's much more interesting to embrace who you really are rather than waste energy pretending to be someone else.

Taki ukaz, zabraniaj?cy uczy? si?, nie ma przek?adu w dziejach i jest oryginalnym rosyjskim wymys?em.

God made man, and then he said, 'I can do better than that.' and made woman.

In this world is not the creative act of the genius always a protest against the inertia of the mass?

Do not compare yourself to others. If you do so, you are insulting yourself.

Be not afraid of being called un-fashionable.

To do something very common, in my own way.

I don't believe there's a cap on creativity and passion.

I've never tried to be anything but me. Even with Slipknot, where it can almost feel like a roll sometimes, it's still a part of who I am. It's a very strong and passionate part of who I am, and I'm lucky enough to have an audience that is really open to what I do.

You should hear what my parents wanted to call me. It was between Brown Rice, Neon Hitch and Z. Ziggurat Zanzibar Zandorf. I'm not joking. Imagine fitting that on my passport!

There have been people who said I was a Pat Riley clone. But I don't think that's true. While I did learn a lot from him, I could never be him. I mean, we even dress so differently.

There's nothing worse than trying to patch something or make do. If there wasn't something there in the beginning, it won't be there at the end.

An e-bike is like headphones, you can say you have patents, but people will still copy.

I always feel like I want to do my career my own way. I never follow anybody's path, what they've done.

I never follow anybody's path, what they've done.

I love to have my own story, my own path, and forge ahead because my career isn't going to be like anyone else's.

I've never been the sort of guy who wants to emulate this guy or that guy. I just try to forge my own path.

To really be on stage and not know what you're going to say, and to be able to say something that makes people laugh, or do something that's sort of abstract or off the beaten path and have people connect to it by just putting your ideas together, that really makes me happy.

I've always been a risk taker; I've never believed in following the expected path.

To copy others is necessary, but to copy oneself is pathetic.

Forget about trying to compete with someone else. Create your own pathway. Create your own new vision.

I don't have the patience to be a non-creator.

I don't really try to pattern myself after any particular person. I pretty much make it up as I go along.

I never accepted the idea that I had to be guided by some pattern or blueprint.