Noelle Stevenson Quotes

I never wanted to be like anyone growing up. It's always been about the enjoyment, and I've just never wanted to imitate anyone.

I just like doing things from my own head.

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

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

I just know that it's smart for my career to carve my own path and do my own thing.

I was lucky I went to school in London because the tutors could see what to do. I knew I wanted to do something different. Why would I want to do what other people were already doing, because they would always do it better? I always wanted to work around the body. So throughout my college years, my work was quite free.

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

I don't study; I create.

I quickly realized I had to have my own style and strategy and find my own way.

... encourage the free play of our people's genius for individual initiative.

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

I am very into making up my own rules.

At WSX I think I was very much trying to figure it out on my own and we were creating our own style and our own thing. I can only speak for myself, I was not trying to be anything. I was not trying to be like anyone else.

We did what we wanted to do, made it work, and made our own rules - and the best art we could - along the way.

I feel like there's something in me that desires to express myself even more and not be so afraid of a solo endeavor.

I like more the fact that I like to think out of the box. Thinking out of the box goes along with dressing out of the box and living out of the box.

If you live your life only following the path you think is approved or acceptable, or the one you think is expected of you, you’ll be making a huge mistake. Not a single successful person… has ever done great things because they played it safe. You’ve got to be true to yourself.

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.

Follow no path. Make your own.

The things to do are: the things that need doing: that you see need to be done, and that no one else seems to see need to be done. Then you will conceive your own way of doing that which needs to be done - that no one else has told you to do or how to do it. This will bring out the real you that often gets buried inside a character that has acquired a superficial array of behaviors induced or imposed by others on the individual.

Follow the masters! But why should one follow them? The only reason they are masters is that they didn't follow anybody!

Individuality' is the key to success.

We grow up thinking that the best answer is in someone else's brain. Much of our education is an elaborate game of 'guess what's in the teacher's head?' What the world really needs to know right now is what kind of dreams and ideas are in your head.

I have created a life by stepping out of the box of people's limitations. I call it zigging when others are zagging.