“If a man loses pace with his companions perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured, or far away.”
~Thoreau, “Walden”
“You don’t get harmony when everybody sings the same note.”
~Doug Floyd
“To sing, to laugh, to dream,
To walk in my own way.”
~Edmond Rostand
“Some people march to a different drummer, ignoring the rest of the world. A few dance to the piccolo.”
~Paul Chance
“Do not go where the path may lead; go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.”
~Emerson
“If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.”
~Anatole France
“When you are content to be simply yourself and do not compare or compete, everybody will respect you.”
~Lao Tzu
“There is a vitality, a life force, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique. If you block it, it will never exist through any other medium. It will be lost. The world will not have it. It is not your business to determine how good it is, nor how valuable it is, nor how it compares with other expressions.”
~Martha Graham
“Other people's opinion of you does not have to become your reality.”
~Les Brown
“To be nobody-but-yourself – in a world which is doing it’s best, night and day, to make you everybody else – means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.”
~e.e.cummings