Hunter S. Thompson Quotes

Remember that what you have is unique because it's your own special way of looking at the world.

Photography can never grow up if it imitates some other medium. It has to walk alone; it has to be itself.

I have my own voice and can focus only on that. I know what I like; I find my inspirations in so many other places than just online and bring that into my work.

Forget about trying to compete with someone else. Create your own pathway. Create your own new vision.

Work out of your work. Don't work out of anybody else's work.

I don't follow what everybody else does.

If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.

Every artist is an artist, and every heartbeat is a heartbeat.

I've always felt quite singular, even as a child. That I must stay on track to keep my purpose.

One man's style must not be the rule of another's.

I am of a sect by myself, as far as I know.

I am not trying to chase what other people are doing.

I influence myself, because I always try to be different and stay in my own lane.

I didn't look at the previous 'A Wrinkle in Time' movie. I wrote ideas down from the book, but I didn't really want to copy that Meg. We're the same, but we're different at the same time. I wanted to make myself Meg. I didn't want to use somebody else or use a reference.

People have own mind, own views.

Tiger is free to explore the world himself. He is a man whose persona is totally different from what I had during my initial days. There can't be any comparison between the two of us, since he is absolutely different.

I have my own thing going on; I don't want to imitate anyone else.

I write 100% of my material by myself. That's really important to me because I don't want what I'm trying to say to be diluted by anyone that might not know my circumstance or who I am as a person.

Everybody marches to a different drummer.

I am one of those who are made for exceptions, not for laws.

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.

True individualists are always at odds with the universe. Set adrift by their peculiar tastes and interests, they spend their lives searching for kindred spirits and a compatible mate. They are hopelessly out of step with the business world and its trivial urgencies. Their priorities are not the priorities of their neighbors. They are unique; therefore they are alone.

I personally like being unique. I like being my own person with my own style and my own opinions and my own toothbrush.

I kind of go to the beat of my own drum.

You cannot make a difference unless you're different.