Iman Shumpert Quotes

I'm sure people would argue this, but I want to be different in everything I do. I don't think I've been the same in anything I've done, and I want to keep that up.

Different is better. I get more jobs being different.

It's like everybody try to sound the same exact way because they think it's going to get them some fame, but nah. You've got to be different.

People might look at you a bit funny, but it's okay. Artists are allowed to be a bit different.

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.

When everyone starts sounding the same, that's when you know the words and phrases have become clichés. Instead of speaking in clichés, I encourage people just to be themselves, let their passion burn brightly, and go work on things they love spending their time on.

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.

Originality is being different from oneself, not others.

It's easy to get anonymous people to hate you. Have an opinion. Be creative. Be yourself.

I'd rather sink trying to be different, than stay afloat like everyone else.

The good parts are the people who don't make do. They're the interesting people. Lear doesn't make do.

I feel like it's important, especially at young age, to find exactly what it is that makes your style so important as opposed to just trying to fit into the iconic styles of performers out there.

I have a trend of my own.

When you're just like everybody else, you've nothing to offer other than your conformity.

You've gotta be original, because if you're like someone else, what do they need you for?

I don't mind being unlikely. I'd rather that than be predictable.

As long as you're true to you, you believe it and you make others believe it, then what you're doing is just art. If you give everybody a blank canvas and some paint, not everybody's picture is going to be exactly the same, but it's still art. I just do what I do.

The reason I put make-up on or wear the costume is to try and find my own style. It's like my guitar style - I'm just trying to be an original artist.

I'm a guy that appreciates spontaneity and a woman being genuine and different.

The best thing anyone can do is be himself. Everyone was made different by God, and that's the way it should be. And if I were a writer or an announcer starting out, I don't think I'd imitate anybody. I'd try to be whatever I am.

When you don't dress like everybody else, you don't have to think like everybody else.

I don't want to be normal. I want to be something else.

If you want to be original just try being yourself, because God has never made two people exactly alike.

I find that the very things that I get criticized for, which is usually being different and just doing my own thing and just being original, is the very thing that's making me successful.

I'd never just want to do what everybody else did. I'd be contributing to the sameness of everything.