J. Michael Straczynski Quotes

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.

Who said you had to fill his shoes? Wear your own shoes. They're bound to fit better. Walk your own path your own way and you'll be more likely to get to where you need to be.

If there were already a path, it would have to be someone else's; the whole point is to find your own way.

Note that this journey is uniquely yours, no one else's. So the path has to be your own. You cannot imitate somebody else's journey and still be true to yourself. Are you prepared to honor your uniqueness in this way?

Be neither a conformist or a rebel, for they are really the same thing. Find your own path, and stay on it.

No one behind, no one ahead. The path the ancients cleared has closed. And the other path, everyone's path, easy and wide, goes nowhere. I am alone and find my way.

To go wrong in one's own way is better than to go right in someone else's.

The one thing that you have that nobody else has is you. Your voice, your mind, your story, your vision. So write and draw and build and play and dance and live as only you can.

For all the oddballs and misfits out there, eventually, if you just follow your path, you will reach somewhere no one else has. You are uniquely meant to do something that only you can do.

Never follow anyone else's path, unless you're in the woods and you're lost.

A person's life is a journey, a road. Sometimes you go off the road and sometimes you stay on all the way through. But you are the only one on that road. It's your road.

Don't imitate. If you want to know who you are, please avoid imitation, that's a way of avoiding knowing yourself.

Do not compare, do not measure. No other way is like yours. All other ways deceive and tempt you. You must fulfill the way that is in you.

We all must follow a different path to let our light shine, and that's what makes us so unpredictable and unique.

There's nothing about the way my life unfolded that should be seen as at all prescriptive for what anybody else wants to do.

Shri Krishna says: "Better die in your own path than attempt the path of another."

You enter the forest at the darkest point, where there is no path. Where there is a way or path, it is someone else's path. You are not on your own path. If you follow someone else's way, you are not going to realize your potential.

Each one of us must make his own true way, and when we do, that way will express the universal way.

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

There is a certain way of being human that is my way. I am called upon to live my life in this way, and not in imitation of anyone else's life. But this notion gives a new importance to being true to myself. If I am not, I miss the point of my life; I miss what being human is for me.

The best way to be more like me is to be more like you.

You've just got to follow your own path. You have to trust your heart and you have to listen to the warnings.

Just tell me how to be different in a way that makes sense.

A man must walk only his own path...Never another's or his feet will grow tired and sore. And he will feel lost even when he arrives.

Too often, we decide to follow a path that is not really our own, one that others have set for us. We forget that...in both cases we will pass through both difficult and happy moments. But when we are living our dream, the difficulties we encounter make sense.