Sri Aurobindo Quotes

I've never really tried to copy anyone; I like to have my own style.

What another would have done as well as you, do not do it. What another would have said as well as you, do not say it; what another would have written as well, do not write it. Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself-and thus make yourself indispensable.

The minute you succumb to outside pressure, you cease to be creative.

No one can be profoundly original who does not avoid eccentricity.

I couldn't imitate anyone if I wanted to.

It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.

You want to stake your own claim. You don't want to be called a copycat.

My biggest challenge in my career is not looking or sounding like anybody.

I never wanted the temptation to imitate or emulate something that had been done beforehand.

Bring individuality into things, do not just be an imitator. To imitate is to miss life.

The imitator dooms himself to hopeless mediocrity. The inventor did it because it was natural to him, and so in him it has a charm. In the imitator something else is natural, and he bereaves himself of his own beauty, to come short of another man's.

I didn't want to imitate anybody. Any movement I knew, I didn't want to use.

It's hard work to find your own voice and not to copycat anything.

I think that my father would find it so confusing that people want to imitate him. Not because he didn't have confidence in who he was, but because he never imitated anybody. He was his own person.

I always took a great deal of pride in being original.

Posterity weaves no garlands for imitators.

No man was ever great by imitation.

The only thing I really recommend, if you're starting out in stand-up is to not try to copy anybody else. You can be influenced by people. I was influenced by Steve Martin and Bob Newhart and Woody Allen, but I never tried to be someone else. I always tried to be myself. And the reason people are successful is they're unique.

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.

There were times in my career when I would try to write songs like Bob Dylan... Artists get hooked up in that. To be a follower, you lose.

I think most people don't like others who, without a voice of their own, emulate the other. I certainly don't want anybody just to pick up my thoughts and hand them back to me.

I've seen stand up comedy, and after a while you start to notice that a lot of people are doing things that are like a lot of other people. There can be a bit of a herd mentality, and that's obviously less interesting because there's less going on. I'm just being totally frank with you.

It doesn't really matter to me what the rest of country is doing. I'm not caught up in trying to make a record that sounds like everybody else. That, to me, is a record label's absolute biggest downfall.

Show off your own style and uniqueness to stand out. That's the advice I'd give to people getting started online now.

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.