Paul Arden Quotes

The good parts are the people who don't make do. They're the interesting people. Lear doesn't make do.

Originality is the one thing which unoriginal minds cannot feel the use of.

I have worked hard and learnt that I have to make a decision - whether I am going to conform and protect myself or not. I chose not to.

I am against the whole cliche of the moment.

We can raise our sights high when we're willing to break free from being conformists who live a conventional life simply because we are too afraid to express our uniqueness.

Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the danger of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of 'crackpot' than the stigma of conformity.

If you do the same as all the rest, you're the same as all the rest: I don't want to be just another player.

We live in world that wants to burnish the rough edges and straighten the crooked line, but conformity doesn't beget greatness.

There's not enough people being daring and different. There are a lot of followers in hip-hop.

What's the fun in doing conventional things? I would rather be known as someone who is unconventional. I like being unconventional. I like doing things which are different. That's what I like... It gives me a boost as an actor.

You can't expect to be better than everybody else if you're doing the same thing as everybody else.

Be less afraid to be different.

The one lesson I've learned from technology and food is the only time you know you're doing the wrong thing is when you're doing what everyone else is doing.

People want you to be ordinary. They don't like it when people are different. They don't like it when a man soars over their heads while they stand in the dirt. People hate you when you're special; it reminds them of everything that they aren't.

If I did what has already been done, I would be a plagiarist and would consider myself unworthy; so I do something different and people call me a scoundrel. I'd rather be a scoundrel than a plagiarist!

I want to do something different, really different, and if it alienates people that's too bad.

I have created a life by stepping out of the box of people's limitations. I call it zigging when others are zagging.

According to one influential wing of modern secular society there are few more disreputable fates than to end up being 'like everyone else' for 'everyone else' is a category that comprises the mediocre and the conformist, the boring and the suburban. The goal of all right-thinking people should be to mark themselves off from the crowd and 'stand out' in whatever way their talents allow.

The human spirit lives on creativity and dies in conformity and routine.

Don't listen to those who say, you taking too big a chance. Michelangelo would have painted the Sistine floor, and it would surely be rubbed out by today.

If you're doing what everyone else is doing, you're doing it wrong.

I admire anyone that follows the road less travelled.

The logical process will often be the safe one. I tend, when I'm given that choice, to go the way that's not safe.

The world doesn't need any more mediocrity or hedged bets.

I don't follow what everybody else does.