Kevin Kelly Quotes

There was no one near to confuse me, so I was forced to become original.

I'm not following anybody's tracks, I'm making my own baby.

Work out of your work. Don't work out of anybody else's work.

I will offer a choice, not an echo.

I just know that it's smart for my career to carve my own path and do my own thing.

If no one's doing the creative work that you want to do, do it yourself.

There's obviously some validity to it. But I think it also points out that you obviously can do it on your own because people have been doing it long before they had the stuff.

I must create a system or be enslaved by another mans; I will not reason and compare: my business is to create.

I've already created my own thing.

I just remember I wanted to make my own dynasty and not keep following trends. I wanted to make my own.

If you paint a picture and I paint a picture, we each want to do it our own way. And we'll stand or fall on whatever we did.

I think everyone needs to feel they've created something that was their own, on their own terms.

I learned a lot from other people, and was inspired by what they did, but I didn't copy anyone. I put many different blocks together to become what I am. I don't know if that would have happened if everything was handed to me on a plate.

In the era we came up in, you had to have your own thing.

One's life is peculiar to one's own when one has invented it.

To be independent of public opinion is the first formal condition of achieving anything great.

Every piece of technology, every piece of art, basically everything manmade comes from an idea.

To be independent of public opinion is the first formal condition of achieving anything great or rational whether in life or in science. Great achievement is assured, however, of subsequent recognition and grateful acceptance by public opinion, which in due course will make it one of its own prejudices

I was born alone, I'm gonna die alone. I have my own identity. I'm my own person, and no two people are the same.

I like my work to stand on its own as much as possible.

What I wanted to hear didn't exist, so it was necessary for me to go out and create it.

You need to be your own individual.

Students must have initiative; they should not be mere imitators. They must learn to think and act for themselves - and be free.

To the extent that independent means you're willing to attempt to put your own ideas, personality, and commitment to the material on screen, then of course I hope I'm independent until the day I die.

I don't have any influences, any heroes, it's just me.