Clarissa Pinkola Estes Quotes

I think there's always a call for people who are bucking the norm.

I love when people have their own creative vision, when a person stands out and tries different things.

I passionately hate the idea of being with it; I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.

I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.

The American people ... have a stake in con-conformity, for they know that the American genius is non-conformist.

If there's a strange way to do something, I would certainly like to know about it. I feel that I owe that to my public.

It's important to be unconventional.

I dont ever want to do anything mediocre. I hear the music in the charts and I dont mean to be rude, but those people have no soul. Learning from music is like eating a meal - you have to pace yourself. You cant take everything from it all at once. I want to be different, definitely. Im not a one trick pony. Im at least a five-trick pony.

Never follow the crowd in what you do; the crowd has never produced anything of lasting quality, value or beauty.

People are always talking about originality; but what do they mean? As soon as we are born, the world begins to work upon us; and this goes on to the end. And after all, what can we call our own, except energy, strength, and will? If I could give an account of all that I owe to great predecessors and contemporaries, there would be but a small balance in my favor.

You cannot make a difference unless you're different.

I have created a life by stepping out of the box of people's limitations. I call it zigging when others are zagging.

I like to go against the grain, against what's out there. Every day is like a challenge.

The businessman says 'If I don't do it first, somebody else will.' The artist says 'If I don't do it first, nobody else will.'

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

Where's your will to be weird?

My eccentricity became direction.

I'm always looking at how I can be atypical.

I was always a rebel in the sense that I always wanted to go my own road and do something that nobody else has done.

Always be different; don't follow the rules. Don't do what anyone tells you. Don't use the same sounds as people; don't use the same drums as people.

Anyone who creates something new or does something different artistically is going to be singled out.

Whenever I try to do something, I figure out what other people aren't doing or how can I do it different or how can I stand out.

I love people that willfully defy what you're supposed to be and create their own definition of their selves.

Don't look at all at what other people are doing. Think of what you're doing as completely fresh because if you imitate you're dead.

I'm always trying to find something unique or a project that I can do something unique in.