Josh McDowell Quotes

I want people to look at a checkerboard and think of me!

In advertising, not to be different is virtual suicide.

The world is full of people who all want the same thing, and you have to do a little something extra to make them remember you.

Individuality' is the key to success.

I had no reason to want to copy anybody else. What I wanted to give audiences for the few minutes that I thought my career would last was something unique.

If it weren't for people that stand out, this whole world would be really, really boring.

I'm a smart enough person to know that I don't want everyone to be cookie-cutter versions of the nine guys who wear Converse sneakers.

I try as hard as I can for everything to be different from one movie to the next.

Whatever you do, be different. If you're different, you will stand out.

If I thought that any poem of mine could have been written by anyone else, either a contemporary or a forerunner, I should suppress it with a blush; and I should do the same if I ever found I were imitating myself. Every poem should be new, unexpected, inimitable, and incapable of being parodied.

The essence of a sound style is that it cannot be reduced to rules-that it is a living and breathing thing with something of the devilish in it-that it fits its proprietor tightly yet ever so loosely, as his skin fits him. It is, in fact, quite as seriously an integral part of him as that skin is. . . . In brief, a style is always the outward and visible symbol of a man, and cannot be anything else.

It's boring to be like everybody.

Anybody who is any good is different from anybody else.

Be as unique and original as possible.

I fear uniformity. You cannot manufacture great men any more than you can manufacture gold.

What I'd like to be is a unique writer who's different from everybody else. I want to be a writer who tells stories unlike other writers'.

The original writer is not he who refrains from imitating others, but he who can be imitated by none.

Don't blend in; instead, clash with your environment. Stand out. Be different. That's what will draw attention to your ideas. Nothing has intrinsic attention-grabbing power by itself. The power lies in how much something stands out from its context.

It is always better to be an original than an imitation.

One of my guiding principles is don't do anything that other people are doing. Always do something a little different if you can. The concept is that if you do it a little differently there is a greater potential for reward than if you the same thing that other people are doing. I think that this kind of goal for one's work, having obviously the maximum risk, would have the maximum reward no matter what the field may be.

Each person has their own brand and style and the way they do things.

If you want to stand out from the crowd, give people a reason not to forget you

Be different; be unique; be yourself.

Find comfort in the knowledge that no imitator ever comes off as well as the original.

I'm sure people would argue this, but I want to be different in everything I do. I don't think I've been the same in anything I've done, and I want to keep that up.