Mary Wollstonecraft Quotes

I always feel like I want to do my career my own way. I never follow anybody's path, what they've done.

I rarely do things based on what everybody else is doing; I never have.

My father, Benjamin Shiller, told me not to believe in authorities or celebrities - that society tends to imagine them as superhuman. It's good advice. People are snowed by celebrities all the time. In academia people have this idea of achieving stardom - publishing in the best journals, being at the best university, writing on the hot topic everyone else is writing about. But that's what my father told me not to do. He taught me that you have to pursue things that sound right to you.

You have to figure out ways to do things on your own. I do my own thing, and I don't pay much attention to what anyone else is doing.

Students must have initiative; they should not be mere imitators. They must learn to think and act for themselves - and be free.

I never think about what others are doing. I do a film for myself, not others.

I just like doing things from my own head.

I've never liked categories; I've never liked boxes; I've always tried to be unconventional as much as I possibly could.

I agree with no one's opinion. I have some of my own.

The educator should do anything but advise the child to do what everybody does. He should rather rejoice when he sees in the child tendencies to deviation.

I don't follow what everybody else does.

The creative individual has the capacity to free himself from the web of social pressures in which the rest of us are caught. He is capable of questioning the assumptions that the rest of us accept.

When you don't dress like everybody else, you don't have to think like everybody else.

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

I am not influenced by other human beings. But I am inspired.

If they give you ruled paper, write the other way.

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

Nothing I do is done by popular demand.

I don't follow other players or the tournaments they play. I have my own schedule and do my own thing. I never really think, 'Oh, I want to be or play like so-and-so.' I just like being myself.

I make no concessions to conformism.

I am not trying to chase what other people are doing.

If one has fear, there can be no initiative in the creative sense of the word. To have initiative in this sense is to do something original - to do it spontaneously, naturally, without being guided, forced, controlled. It is to do something which you love to do.

I don't follow trends. I just do what I like doing.

I'm not one to be like, 'What is everybody doing? Let me do that!' I just do what I want.

I've never been the sort of guy who wants to emulate this guy or that guy. I just try to forge my own path.