Suzy Kassem Quotes

The best way to be original is to be yourself.

The message I hope to have sent is just the example of being yourself. I tell this to my students: It's not about copying me or my logic systems. It's about allowing yourself to be yourself.

Be yourself, no matter what they say.

Why pretend to be something you're not? If you have to be someone, be someone no one else is.

I'm not even sure I have a style! All I know for sure is I don't want to look like everyone else.

I would much rather be a bad Luise Rainer than a second someone else.

I don't want to be the next anyone. I'm just me.

I've tried singing like somebody else, and it never worked for me. The only thing that has ever worked for me was me being me, so either you love it or not.

I feel like when I try to fit in, it comes across as not genuine, and that is not good. I'd rather just do me and have people say, 'Oh. That's interesting,' than try to fit in.

And to be different is great. You don't want to be the same.

Be you. Everyone else is already taken.

Living courageously in your uniqueness is really important: just being completely yourself. I know that sounds really cliche, but just do what you want to do.

I don't want to sound like anyone.

I'm not trying to be anyone else.

I don't want to emulate anyone.

Be yourself. And every person is unique.

Be stupid, be dumb, be funny, if that's who you are. Don't try to be someone that society wants you to be; that's stupid. So be yourself.

I have my own thing going on; I don't want to imitate anyone else.

Everyone is different, and I would rather be disliked for who I am than liked for who I am not.

Born Originals, how comes it to pass that we die Copies?

Tis' better to live your own life imperfectly than to imitate someone else's perfectly.

Don't worry about your originality. You couldn't get rid of it even if you wanted to. It will stick with you and show up for better or worse in spite of all you or anyone else can do.

Let's not imitate others.Let's find ourselves and be ourselves.

Finally and most important of all, authenticity means that you must do what you do the way you do it and allow everyone else the same courtesy. There was a time I wanted to be like every famous writer that ever lived. I tried to copy styles, reframe information, use similar artwork. I almost drove myself crazy! Now I just do what I do. I have mentors. There are people whose work I admire, but I write the way I write. I eat the way I eat. I dress the way I dress. I can't believe that God made us each so unique only to have us do everything the same way.

Don't be different just for different's sake. If you see it differently, function that way. Follow your own muse, always.