Ken Robinson Quotes

There's no reason trying to fit in: Just be you. That was the biggest thing for me, just being me, and finding what works for me.

Two or three things I know for sure, and one is that I'd rather go naked than wear the coat the world has made for me.

I tried to be different; I didn't want to be like everybody else.

I am not interested in changing who I am to fit someone else's idea of what a category should be or look like.

Be stupid, be dumb, be funny, if that's who you are. Don't try to be someone that society wants you to be; that's stupid. So be yourself.

When you're growing up, the most important thing is to try to not change yourself too much. Be you, because everyone else is taken.

You don't have to fit into a mold that someone else has defined.

If knowing yourself and being yourself were as easy to do as to talk about, there wouldn't be nearly so many people walking around in borrowed postures, spouting secondhand ideas, trying desperately to fit in rather than to stand out.

Try to find your individuality, your integrity, and make the effort of not compromising. Because the more you compromise, the less you are an individual. You are only a cog in the wheel, just a part in the vast mechanism, just a small part of the mob - not an individual in your own beauty, in your own right. I am absolutely against compromise. Death is far more beautiful than a life of compromise.

The message I hope to have sent is just the example of being yourself.

Express who you are in a world where everyone is the same.

You want to be yourself, idiosyncratic; the collective (school, rules, jobs, technology) wants you generic to the point of castration.

Be yourself, no matter what they say.

It's a hell of a responsibility to be yourself. It's much easier to be somebody else or nobody at all.

If I wasted my time trying to be like everybody else when I was 10 and 11, I wouldn't be me today. So if you are gonna be the future rockstars, the future somebody, whatever you wanna be then you're wasting your time trying to be somebody else, because you'll never get to you.

Remember it's OK to be yourself.

We were all given our opportunities to be ourselves. A little bit of ourselves.

Be yourself cause everyone else is already taken.

You've always made the mistake of being yourself.

The hardest struggle of all is to be something different from what the average man is.

When I first got into the league, I tried to fit in. Now I don't care.

I don't like to be labeled, to be anything. I've made the mistake before myself of labeling my music, but it's counter-productive.

The more time we invest imitating others, the less that's available to discover and be ourselves.

I'd hate it if everyone in the world liked me, my music and what I wore. It'd make it boring, and I wouldn't have anything to work towards. It's not to everyone's taste, but I can only be me.

When we are honest - that's my saying - if we are honest then we will reveal ourselves. But we do not have to make an effort to be individualistic, different from others.