Arnold Schwarzenegger Quotes

I don't like following in people's footsteps; I like making my own trail.

I followed my own self and individuality so much that it automatically made me a game changer or set me apart from others. I did not think it was necessary to do things the way others are doing it.

I was always a rebel in the sense that I always wanted to go my own road and do something that nobody else has done.

I never follow anybody's path, what they've done.

My early experiences in animation taught me that following someone else is not a great idea.

I've never tried to be accepted. When everyone is doing one thing, I've always had the instinct to go the other way. I don't understand how an individual with their own mind, their own values, and their own beliefs can be so willing to just follow what everybody else is doing. How can you make history doing what everybody else is doing?

I don't follow trends, so I make my own.

Never follow the crowd in what you do; the crowd has never produced anything of lasting quality, value or beauty.

Men have been taught that it is a virtue to agree with others. But the creator is the man who disagrees. Men have been taught that it is a virtue to swim with the current. But the creator is the man who goes against the current. Men have been taught that it is a virtue to stand together. But the creator is the man who stands alone.

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.

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

I'm not following anybody's tracks, I'm making my own baby.

Rock is all about writing your own script; it's all about pioneering.

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'm so proud to be on a Kate Bush record; she's always marched to the beat of her own drum.

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

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

The problem with competition is that it takes away the requirement to set your own path, to invent your own method, to find a new way.

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 always feel like I want to do my career my own way. I never follow anybody's path, what they've done.

Don't look at all at what other people are doing. Think of what you're doing as completely fresh because if you imitate you're dead.

Very few people are original. There's very little original anything out there. Because to be original means you have to stand alone.

As far as things I avoid, I always avoid following trends just because they're trends.

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

I always wanted to beat my own path.