Different Drummer Quotes

#1. Even my different drummer heard a different drummer

Florence King

#2. If a man does not keep 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.
It is not important that he should mature as soon as an apple-tree or
an oak. Shall he turn his spring into summer?

Henry David Thoreau

#3. If a man does not march in step to his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.

Henry David Thoreau

#4. Why should we be in such desperate haste to succeed and in such desperate enterprises? If a man does not keep 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.

Henry David Thoreau

#5. People project their own dreams, fantasies, and prejudices onto my life. So people are either fans, or jealous, or disagree. Everybody marches to a different drummer.

Hugh Hefner

#6. I march to a different drummer, whose location, identity, and musical training haven't yet been established.

Ashleigh Brilliant

#7. But Apple really beats to a different drummer. I used to say that Apple should be the Sony of this business, but in reality, I think Apple should be the Apple of this business.

Steve Jobs

#8. If you hear a different drummer, don't march - dance!

Carolyn V. Hamilton

#9. You can lead an uncommonly fine life. But it takes determination. You have to march to the beat of different drummer. You have to decide.

Frederick Lenz

#10. The Trevanian Buff is a strange and wonderful creature: an outsider, a natural elitist, not so much a cynic as an idealist mugged by reality, not just one of those who march to a different drummer, but the solo drummer in a parade of one.

Trevanian

#11. If your child marches to a different beat, a different drummer, you might just have to go along with that music. Help them achieve what's important to them.

Sonia Sotomayor

#12. Steve talked to me a lot about being abandoned and the pain that caused, he said. It made him independent. He followed the beat of a different drummer, and that came from being in a different world than he was born into.

Walter Isaacson

#13. You must walk to the beat of a different drummer. The same beat that the wealthy hear. If the beat sounds normal, evacuate the dance floor immediately! The goal is to not be normal, because as my radio listeners know, normal is broke.

Dave Ramsey

#14. Clarity leads to attention and attention leads to results.

Henry Cloud

#15. I still think that, sometimes, think
that maybe "the afterlife" is just something we made up to ease the pain of loss, to make our time in the labyrinth bearable.

John Green

#16. Death is the mother of beauty; hence from her,
Alone, shall come fulfillment to our dreams
And our desires.

Wallace Stevens

#17. What is needed [to combat terrorism], in my view, is resolve, not retreat; courage, not concession. Rather than thinking in terms of an exit strategy, focus on a strategy for success.

Donald Rumsfeld

#18. Are you polluting the world or cleaning up the mess? You are responsible for your inner space; nobody else is, just as you are responsible for the planet. As within, so without: If humans clear inner pollution, then they will also cease to create outer pollution.

Eckhart Tolle

#19. A lot of people struggle in their younger years, and I think people can relate to that.

Matthew Lewis

#20. The first female captain in the history of the Star Trek franchise,

Kate Mulgrew

#21. I used to be a drummer in a band, and I really loved playing the drums, so I look forward to the right opportunity to do that at some point. Maybe even on TV. Every single live performance I'm doing on TV, I want it to be different and unique.

Zedd

#22. Any deal that recognizes Iran "right" to enrich is a prelude to fiasco and tragedy.

Ziad K. Abdelnour

#23. Thank God that I had the ability to understand that I had a different beat and that I was a drummer.

James Brown