Richard Ben Cramer Quotes

I didn't want to be regular. I didn't want to be this type of player, how everybody else play. I always try to learn and just be better so I could be different, y'know, instead of being content like a lot of people I've seen were.

I never intended to become a run-of-the-mill person.

I have a horror of not rising above mediocrity.

I saw that I was in danger of becoming ordinary, and I understood that from now on I would have to be vigilant.

If you want to be different, do something different.

You will never change your life until you change something you do daily.

I didn't really know what I wanted to do, but I knew the woman I wanted to become.

I can't say that I've fully achieved my dream yet. I'm just starting to evolve.

You're going to change the world? Well, go ahead and try. You'll give it up at a certain point and change yourself instead.

Never before have humans been so ambitious, have they thought that they could be much more than their parents were.

If you are doing what everyone else is doing, there is probably not an opportunity there.

I just need to believe that we're not in some form of stasis, that we can try to be whoever we want to be. We probably won't get there, but we might get a little bit closer, you know?

I will not be a common man. I will stir the smooth sands of monotony.

I've always loved 'Before and After' stories, in books, magazines, and TV shows. Whenever I read those words, I'm hooked. The thought of a transformation - any kind of transformation - thrills me. And that's the promise of habits.

My everyday life in which I do exactly the same things as everyone else should not inspire people, and yet I am constantly congratulated by strangers for simply existing.

Real change happens when you feel genuinely inspired, turned on by possibility and unwilling to settle for anything less.

I would like, certainly, to do different things.

Ain't no man can avoid being average, but there ain't no man got to be common.

I chose Rio Ave because I had something in my head about wanting to do it differently to how I had done it in my past. Something new.

We just want to outdo ourselves every time we come back somewhere.

If you truly want to be great, don't get caught up in what has been done before or who has done it.

My biggest challenge in my career is not looking or sounding like anybody.

I feel like no one plays the game to be normal, average. Or I don't.

I do music that makes me happy by challenging myself to go the extra mile and not do what everyone else is doing.

Sometimes, it is necessary to step beyond what you have known and to reach for something more.