Sandi Toksvig Quotes

Ronald Reagan was the best Ronald Reagan ever, and Ronald Reagan was a cool guy. You're not Ronald Reagan. You can't run as him; you can't relive his career. You can't just have somebody else's career. You have to be you.

Yeah, it's nice to look up to people, but the more you try to be somebody else, the less you are of yourself.

We all have idols. Play like anyone you care about but try to be yourself while you're doing so.

I don't want to be somebody else.

You start comparing yourself to other people, you end up trying to be that person. You've got to be your own person, do it your own way. You can be motivated by somebody, but you don't have to take after them.

Most people are other people.

I discovered very early that it wasn't quite enough for me to imitate people.

No one should part with their individuality and become that of another.

The more time we invest imitating others, the less that's available to discover and be ourselves.

If you let society and your peers define who you are, you're the less for it.

There was no one in particular I really tried to copy.

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

All greatness of character is dependent on individuality.

People always ask me who my role models are and who I want to be like, and I don't wanna be like anybody; I wanna be me. I look up to a lot of people, and they have had great influences on me, but I wanna be original and different.

What I would tell everyone is don't lose your sense of individuality.

The more you see somebody else's version of something, the harder it is to make it your own.

I don't want to be someone else.

I am not interested in changing who I am to fit someone else's idea of what a category should be or look like.

If knowing yourself and being yourself were as easy to do as to talk about, there wouldn't be nearly so many people walking around in borrowed postures, spouting secondhand ideas, trying desperately to fit in rather than to stand out.

Most of us only find our own voices after we've sounded like a lot of other people.

Try to find your individuality, your integrity, and make the effort of not compromising. Because the more you compromise, the less you are an individual. You are only a cog in the wheel, just a part in the vast mechanism, just a small part of the mob - not an individual in your own beauty, in your own right. I am absolutely against compromise. Death is far more beautiful than a life of compromise.

Each individual's way is going to be different. Never follow anybody. That is the greatest calamity that can happen to a man. Once you start following somebody else, you become a carbon copy. You become an imitation.

Do not resemble me-Never be like a musk melon Cut in two identical halves.

I just try to be myself and not conform to something I'm not and just continue doing what I do. I just try not to think about the fact that I'm an inspiration for people.

Don't be imitators. The mind is an imitator, because it is easier to play the game of imitation than to become authentically true. Many ideas have been given to you: become like a Buddha, become like Jesus. become like Krishna - as if you have to become everybody else EXCEPT yourself. As if God is only against you. He's for Krishna, for Christ, for Mahavir, for Buddha - only against you. Then why does He create you? Then He seems simply foolish. Why does He go on creating you? If He's interested in Buddha, Hc can create Buddhas. Why you?