Alternative Route Quotes

There are many ways to the recognition of truth, and Burgundy is one of them.

When one door is closed, don't you know, another is open.

I'm one of the few that comes from this vantage point: I never tried to get a record deal.

Not a lot of people take advantage of that opportunity of being different. A lot of kids that are highly touted coming out of high school, like, doing the traditional thing and going to the blue bloods and all that, but I was always different growing up.

When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.

The only reason I got into movies was because I had no music talent.

I didn't go to college.

Entrepreneurship is essentially identifying the path that everyone takes; and choosing a different, better way.

I left school at 15, didn't pick up my GCSEs, didn't do A-levels, didn't go to uni.

It never was my plan to get into television.

When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.

Sometimes you don't go straight from high school or college and get to the NBA from there. Sometimes you have to go when you're a little bit older and try that other route like Jeremy Lin. And he made it.

There's no disrespect in playing in the G League.

Was there any danger I could have gone down a different path were it not for boxing? Of course.

If you can't go straight ahead, you go around the corner.

I knew out of high school I didn't want to go to college. I knew what whatever I did wouldn't have anything to do with college.

I think that you cannot have everything in life, and sometimes you just - destiny wants you to take another path.

Maybe I wasn't just the traditional-type person or whatever. I got to the top, but I got there maybe unconventionally. It wasn't just a straight line.

Better not to start down a wrong path at all than head down it in the hope of making a detour when something better came along.

I didn't get into university, so I had to go to drama college!

Basically we just created our own label, but again we just did it to document our own music and create our own thing, so the major labels were just always out of our picture, we're not interested.

I didn't go to university straight after school. I went at night.

I passed the Bar on the first shot, But I have never practiced law.

You know the question: 'How do you get to Carnegie Hall?' Answer: 'Practise?' Well, in my case, I got there by not practising. I didn't finish my music degree. And when I got into the pop world, I decided not to conform because I figured that the point of being an artist was that you shouldn't be like anyone else.

The detour is always rougher than the main road