Clay Shirky Quotes

People who follow all the rules and chase every trend tend to get forgotten - they look great, but they're not as memorable.

In my father's generation, the product was 80 percent of what you were putting into the world, and your personal life was 20 percent. It now seems that 80 percent of the product I put out is silly, made-up stories and what I'm wearing.

I've never Googled myself on the Internet.

I started as a mommy blogger, and it's been really great.

I don't make a concerted effort to distinguish myself as Duncan D. Hunter versus Duncan Hunter. I just do my own thing. That's good enough for me.

When you're as plain as I am, you've gotta have a gimmick.

I think it's pretty cruel to give a kid a name that others are going to have. I think it's very important to have a unique name within any group you're likely to be in.

In the media age, everybody was famous for 15 minutes. In the Wikipedia age, everybody can be an expert in five minutes. Special bonus: You can edit your own entry to make yourself seem even smarter.

Image is not one way to differentiate yourself, it's the only way.

You should be unique, you should be confident, and that's how people remember who you are. You have to be willing to share who you are and your story.

Drip is me. That's my signature.

I am not trying to be the next anyone - I am going to be the first Dolph Ziggler!

As a young guy from south London, I wanted to be able to make myself stand out.

The world is full of people who all want the same thing, and you have to do a little something extra to make them remember you.

If you want to stand out from the crowd, give people a reason not to forget you

If you get your face and your name out there enough, people will start to recognize you.

I've developed some deep relationships over the past couple of years blogging and I realize that those relationships manifest themselves in the links I find when I do my x a daily ego search over at Technorati.

The great thing about the Internet is, it has made it easier for people who are clever and resourceful to promote themselves.

One problem people have is that they lie to themselves. Rarely is talent enough. You have to find ways to make yourself standout. You do so by playing to your strengths and making people aware of those strengths.

The key to success is to find a way to stand out--to be the purple cow in a field of monochrome Holsteins.

We live in a culture of a big me. We're encouraged - we raise our kids to think how great they are, where we have to market ourselves to get through life. We're in social media, where we broadcast highlight - highlight reels of our own lives on Facebook.

Uniqueness is wasted on youth. Like fine wine or a solid flossing habit, you'll be grateful for it when you're older.

Being different and thinking different makes a person unforgettable. History does not remember the forgettable. It honors the unique minority the majority cannot forget

Promotion with my name only, that's all I have to do with it.

I'm very happy that I have an Italian version, a French version, and then I have my own company, but I'm not obsessed by my name. Some people are, "Oh, my name," but I couldn't care less about my name. What I like is the job. The ego trip of that comes later.