John Buchan Quotes

Apparently God makes us all different. Some of us are happy to respond to His individual touch on our lives by remaining individuals, and others of us are intimidated or frightened into trying to become like each other so that we have company, so that we don't feel so lonely.

You were born God's original. Try not to become someone's copy.

If I wasted my time trying to be like everybody else when I was 10 and 11, I wouldn't be me today. So if you are gonna be the future rockstars, the future somebody, whatever you wanna be then you're wasting your time trying to be somebody else, because you'll never get to you.

And that's just what I'm saying. I would never want to be like certain people, who change the way they dress, go out in disguise, wear a big floppy hat and dark shades. I would hate that.

As soon as something becomes 'trendy,' I go off it. I hate the idea of being a sheep and just following a look because I've been told it's fashionable. Individuality makes the world a much more interesting place.

Nobody is original anymore. Nobody has any original style.

I don't want to be a pretty boy.

I refuse to be molded into some stereotypical ballplayer that has no interests, really, no life, no depth, no intelligence.

I don't want other people to decide who I am. I want to decide that for myself. I want to avoid becoming too styled and too 'done' and too generic. You see people as they go through their career, and they just become more and more like everyone else.

It is never wise to try to appear to be more clever than you are. It is sometimes wise to appear slightly less so.

Most Americans never work as hard as when they're trying to appear normal, and in New Orleans, we just don't bother with that.

I'm not cutting my hair because I'm not going to be fake.

We're living at this funny time, where we're all urged to express ourselves as unique individuals, but on the other hand, we share a limited set of tools for doing that. It's easy to feel like nothing more than the sum of your consumer choices.

You don't have to make yourself look like people expect you to look.

After all, in private, we're all misfits

My darling girl, when are you going to realize that being normal is not necessarily a virtue? It rather denotes a lack of courage." - Aunt Frances

I really appreciate people who have their own thing going on and stick to it - super authentic. The people who wear something and you're just like "oh, it looks so good!" it's because it's them. They're not trying to be anything.

The height of cleverness is to be able to conceal it.

Don’t try to be anybody else because that’s what makes you not swaggy.

Be yourself. If you try to be someone else, it won't work. Whatever you do, you are not going to make everyone happy.

You can't try to be somebody you're not; that's not style.

I'd rather be a freak than a clone.

Unhappiness comes when you try to be like everyone else rather than embracing the unique person that you are.

To succeed in the world we must look foolish but be wise.

Why do you have to be the same as the others? ...Most of them are stupid.