Nellie McClung Quotes

The most daring thing is to be yourself and to do exactly what you want to do at that point in time and not to be worried with what other people are doing or what's popular.

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

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

Human progress is furthered, not by conformity, but by aberration.

I've always done everything at my disposal to avoid labeling what I do, or to avoid being labeled myself.

People relate to the spirit of the band, which is to live your way and succeed on your own terms. There's no hypocrisy in being successful and still railing against conformity.

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 admire anyone that follows the road less travelled.

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 find only freedom in the realms of eccentricity.

Rules are made for people who aren't willing to make up their own.

Unless you hit your television with a sledgehammer, you're not going to be able to be an individual.

I love people that willfully defy what you're supposed to be and create their own definition of their selves.

The American people ... have a stake in con-conformity, for they know that the American genius is non-conformist.

An Englishman is a person who does things because they have been done before. An American is a person who does things because they haven't been done before.

Freedom is the right to question, and change the established way of doing things.…It is the understanding that allows us to recognize shortcomings and seek solutions. It is the right to put forth an idea, scoffed at by the experts, and watch it catch fire among the people. It is the right to dream-- to follow your dream, or stick to your conscience, even if you're the only one in a sea of doubters.

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

I always wanted to beat my own path.

I don't want to emulate anyone.

We went and made our own scene and did our own thing.

I don't want to follow in the footsteps of anybody that went before, because they didn't do what I want to do.

Following the West is not surrendering. Following the West, the best of the West, is following originality.

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

Follow no path. Make your own.

I have an almost complete disregard of precedent, and a faith in the possibility of something better. It irritates me to be told how things have always been done. I defy the tyranny of precedent. I go for anything new that might improve the past.