If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.  Let him step to the music that he hears, however measured or far away.
–Henry David Thoreau

When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign:  that the dunces are all in confederacy against him.
–Jonathan Swift

Every human being is intended to have a character of his own; to be what no other is, and to do what no other can do.
–William Channing

It’s too hard, and life is too short, to spend your time doing something because someone else has said it’s important.  You must feel the thing yourself.
–Isidor Rabi

Imitation is suicide.
–Emerson

We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves in order to be like other people.
–Arthur Schopenhauer

If you want to be original, question all the truths that come down to you.
–Niles Eldridge

There is only one success—to be able to spend your life in your own way.
–Christopher Morley

If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
–Anatole France

To be nobody-but-yourself—in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else—means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.
–e.e. cummings

It’s amazing what ordinary people can do if they set out without preconceived notions.
–Charles F. Kettering

It is a good idea to obey all the rules when you’re young just so you’ll have the strength to break them when you’re old.
–Mark Twain

If I listened to the critics, I’d be off in a little room somewhere, cowering in a corner.
–Sting

Never follow the crowd.
–Bernard Baruch

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