Chinua Achebe Quotes

Follow no path. Make your own.

It's empowering to be asked to look at what's possible, not told how to do it.

No, because I don't want to hear what's hot and feel I have to copy it. I'll just make up my own thing.

I pay for what I call eccentricity and my will to evolve.

Working on my own gave me a chance to take my time and experiment a lot.

People speculate or think what they want to think, but it's been really fun for me to kind of explore what I want to explore.

If you want your children to bring original ideas into the world, you need to let them pursue their passions, not yours.

I just wanted to make something in the world and worry about the rest of it later and not get too caught up in rules.

In order to learn, you have to be free. You have to be free to experiment, free to try, free to make mistakes.

Be original. The world will try to fit you into a mold, but carve your own path.

If you wanted to chart new territories and head off over the horizon, you had to make sure you weren't overly influenced by what others were doing ... so it didn't matter what other bands were doing ... we did what we were doing.

Do your own thing; always follow your dreams and don't feel limited by what someone prescribes to you as to what you should do. Expand your horizons, try new things, be adventurous.

I just always considered myself to be different and able to explore whatever I wanted.

It's important to me to try and expose young people to the things they believe are off-limits to them. I tell them, 'There are no walls, only the ones we put up.' My advice to young people looking at my life is not to follow my footprint but to go out there and make their own.

You are constantly looking for ways to do something you haven't done before, whether it's a particular role or doing theatre. As a person, I'm really open to experience.

Today, charting your own course isn't just more necessary than ever before. It's also much easier - and much more fun.

When I'm in a place like Iceland, I allow myself to take a little more time to divert off onto other paths creatively for a while and see what comes to me.

Ultimately, the reason privacy is so vital is it's the realm in which we can do all the things that are valuable as human beings. It's the place that uniquely enables us to explore limits, to test boundaries, to engage in novel and creative ways of thinking and being.

I think that, with anything creative, you should have the freedom to experiment, and that experimentation means not feeling totally responsible for how other people perceive it.

I want to feel like I'm doing something creative and trying different things, putting different hats on and playing. I don't know what's the point otherwise; otherwise, it's just a job. You punch a time clock.

If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, cause there's a million ways to be, you know that there are.

I think I became my own stylist by not knowing any better.

I must create a system or be enslaved by another mans; I will not reason and compare: my business is to create.

I think it's important to give young people the freedom to follow their ideas and pursue their interests.

The best compliment to a child or a friend is the feeling you give him that he has been set free to make his own inquiries, to come to conclusions that are right for him, whether or not they coincide with your own.