Standing Out from the Crowd Quotes

Only the self-sufficient stand alone - most people follow the crowd and imitate.

I could never understand the herd mentality. I have always fought to do things my way and have stuck to that.

Do not be afraid of seeming different and being criticized for what might seem to be losing or out of fashion; your peers but adults too, especially those who seem more distant from the mindset and values of the Gospel, are crying out to see someone who dares to live according to the fullness of humanity revealed by Jesus Christ.

People are looking for something new at the end of the day, and I think when people can do something new and unique to get people's attention, that's what is needed. There's so many people that follow the trend, and then it gets to a point where it gets a little stale. So, in music, I mean, whoever's the new trendsetter, that's who people follow.

Men acquiesce in a thousand things, once righteously and boldly done, to which, if proposed to them in advance, they might find endless objections.

Why try to fit in when you a stand out?

In this age, the mere example of non-conformity, the mere refusal to bend the knee to custom, is itself a service. Precisely because the tyranny of opinion is such as to make eccentricity a reproach, it is desirable, in order to break through that tyranny, that people should be eccentric.

Some of my friends said, 'You are nuts.' But I think I am right.

You'll never stand out if your goal in life is to fit in.

We're not meant to fit in. We're meant to stand out.

Maybe you're not meant to fit in. maybe you're supposed to stand out.

Just do something that makes you stand out. Even if not everyone likes it, just do it.

I like to stand out and make a statement.

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.

Defy the crowd. The crowd isn’t always wise. It can also lead you down a path of silliness, sub-optimal choices, and downright destruction. Enchantment is as necessary for people to diverge from a crowd as it is to get people to join one.

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

I am all for TV, but I want to be part of shows that stand out.

Fitting in is a short-term strategy that gets you nowhere. Standing out is a long-term strategy that takes guts and produces results.

Why wait to be memorable?

As time passed and he grew to know people better, he began to think of himself as an extraordinary man, one set apart from his fellows. He wanted terribly to make his life a thing of great importance, and as he looked about at his fellow men and saw how like clods they lived it seemed to him that he could not bear to become also such a clod.

I think it's probably a good lesson for other people to follow - to not always make the decision that's popular for others, but to do what you feel like is the right thing to do.

A leader must have the courage to act against an expert's advice.

I feel like the longer I hold out - I feel like as soon I move to L.A., I just become one of a million.

If you truly believe in something that is totally rejected by others, then you've just made a difference.

I don't believe in competition, ain't nobody else like me around