Grant Imahara Quotes

I always aspired to do something different.

I always look for a challenge and something that's different.

Don't accept what's out there because that is all that's out there. Look for the new and unusual. Seek out what you genuinely want to read and don't settle.

I never wanted to be ordinary. I never just wanted to do one thing.

We like to challenge ourselves, and having new material and presenting it to the world is fun and exciting and fresh.

I want to do things not many have done.

I do not want to repeat myself. I want to reach for something I've never attained. This is the excitement of art.

There's so much in the world that has already been done, but there are plenty of things left for people who want to go get it.

There's no-one in particular that we look up to, because we strive to be something that's never gone before.

Towering genius disdains a beaten path ... It scorns to tread in the footsteps of any predecessor, however illustrious. It thirsts for distinction.

That I happened to fall into a career that no other girls wanted isn't surprising to me. I wanted something that didn't exist, so I had to create it.

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

If you do things well, do them better. Be daring, be first, be different, be just.

I think Coran Capshaw is such a brilliant entrepreneur and he always thinks about new stuff; the biggest stuff you can imagine. I know he's working on a lot of things for me at the moment, and I think it will definitely help my career to go to the next level.

What's lucky about my career in general is that I stumbled into what every writer most wants. Not repeating myself and doing strange things has become my trademark.

Posterity weaves no garlands for imitators.

When I look back at this career I've had, I don't know where it goes from here, but certainly any time I can make a movie that's different, that explores something that's not a retread of something else, I'm interested in it.

If your work isn't exciting, doesn't stir the emotions, where's the challenge? Where's the progress if you always play it safe?

I'm not a creature of habit. I like to find things from unexpected sources.

People ask me 'Why you want to do another magazine - 10 years at 'Vogue,' a great magazine? Why do you want to make a new one? It's so difficult and there's already so many.' I wanted to do something new, bring a new vision.

Every band I've worked with also wants to be countercultural in the sense that they want to feel that they've gone somewhere that nobody else has been.

I really think that being yourself, being original, being outside the box is starting to be appealing to people.

My sensibilities are like, 'I want it to be weirder.'

The coolest things in life are things that you have not done before. That's the key to life: new things always.

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