To Do Something Different Quotes

#1. Don't be afraid to do something different
Dare to be something more.

Hunter Hayes

#2. The goal is always just to write the best song that you can write. I mean, the process for writing a song is the process for writing a song. It's not something I look at it as something I need to do something different.

Chris Stapleton

#3. Once individuals have the motivation to do something different, the whole world can begin to change. The

Esther Cameron

#4. I think sometimes people are scared to change. Sometimes people are scared to do something different, especially if they've been successful at something.

Jane Clayson

#5. As a kid, as a young actor, I really wanted to pop. I wanted to create something different. I wanted to be Sean Penn, but I didn't have all the words to be Sean Penn. But I was trying to do something different in every role.

Matthew Lillard

#6. I always love to do something different and new and be challenged by different characters.

Emilie De Ravin

#7. I didn't set out to do something different so much as do something that interested me. I wasn't trying to be avant-garde - that's being fashionable. You don't set out to revolutionize art, you make statements for yourself.

Arnold Newman

#8. If you send up a weather vane or put your thumb up in the air every time you want to do something different, to find out what people are going to think about it, you're going to limit yourself. That's a very strange way to live.

Jessye Norman

#9. I would like for people to not be stuck by the rules of what is expected of a classical musician. If you really want to do something different, don't be afraid to do so. Think of music itself and not the rules or expectations of people.

Charlie Albright

#10. The fact is that each person has to do something different, something that is uniquely his own.

C. G. Jung

#11. I didn't want to become a pure mathematician, as a matter of fact, my uncle was one, so I knew what the pure mathematician was and I did not want to be a pure - I wanted to do something different.

Benoit Mandelbrot

#12. My parents were both writers - they would type their manuscripts sitting side by side on the veranda of our house near Watford - so I wanted to do something different. I wanted to be a bluegrass singer, an architect, a landscape gardener, or to do something with animals.

Deborah Moggach

#13. I looked for acting classes in Paris just to do something different than modeling. And then one day I just thought, 'Okay, that's enough, I have to start doing something.' I went to the acting agency and I just told them I wanted to act and asked them if they would give me a chance, and they did.

Olga Kurylenko

#14. Discover your own style. Don't try to repeat what has already been written - have the courage to do your own thing and don't be afraid to do something different.

Cecelia Ahern

#15. To be fair, when I started doing 'Verdict' I literally had no idea what I was doing. I wanted to do some theatre, as I wanted to do something different. I wanted to learn and get an understanding of the craft.

Matthew Lewis

#16. My husband saw me go through the 2008 campaign cycle. We did it together for Sarah Palin and John McCain. It ended disastrously, and afterward I really wanted to do something different, so I started writing novels, and I imagined a fictional female president in my head.

Nicolle Wallace

#17. When Wes came back to Limp Bizkit, we really wanted to do something different. We wanted to make a core record that we didn't care who liked or who disliked.

Fred Durst

#18. When I started writing, I just wanted to do something different and creative. I first thought neo-soul was a good pathway for me, so I tried that out but realized I didn't want to be placed in that box.

Leon Bridges

#19. No institution will go through fundamental change unless it believes it is in deep trouble and needs to do something different to survive.

Lou Gerstner

#20. Basically, high protein, low carb. I work out three to four times a week. I definitely don't do the same thing every day, whether it be spinning or hiking or walking or doing the treadmill. I try to do something different every day. But definitely the one thing is, I sweat.

Molly Sims

#21. I don't miss directing at all, and I don't miss screenwriting either because somebody's always telling you to do something different.

Alan Alda

#22. If I'm going to go out to be a solo artist, it's because I want to do something different without having to wait on someone else's schedule or hobbies or be limited by other people's prejudices. I'd be kind of stupid not to exercise that.

Chris Cornell

#23. When I've worked with established artists, I've naturally been more restricted, but you still have to take risks and push yourself to do something different.

Starsmith

#24. If you want something different, you are going to have to do something different.

Jack Canfield

#25. I always like to do something different, something unusual, stray off the path a bit.

Sean Bean

#26. I'm not really entertained anymore, everything sounds the same. We have a crisis right now of innovative music. I'm probably the only person left trying to do something different and brand new.

Kool Keith

#27. American museums have become cautious, because it is very hard to get money to do something different or controversial.

Pontus Hulten

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

Kurt Cobain

#29. I love casting against type and doing things you wouldn't expect, because I think you get more interesting performances that way. Hollywood loves to pigeonhole people, and there's nothing an actor loves more than to do something different.

David S.Goyer

#30. Everybody was tellin' me that I had to do something different, and I kind of agreed that I did need to vary it a little bit. I still love some rock 'n' roll too.

Johnny Winter

#31. I can always grow a little bit, and try to do something different. So I'm always looking for what's out there - the potential.

Robert Duvall

#32. Sometimes you're going to be faced with situations where the line isn't clear between what's right and what's wrong.Your heart will tell you to do one thing and your brain will tell you to do something different. In the end, all that's left is to look at both sides and go with your best judgment.

Carl Hiaasen

#33. Every role presents a new opportunity for me to do something different and to explore something different.

Paul Wesley

#34. The point of launching a maternity line, for me, was to do something different.

Jessica Simpson

#35. I always try to do something different. I don't think I've made the same record over and over.

Norah Jones

#36. I always urge people to do something different, so for instance find something that you have secretly always wanted to try like dancing or boot camps or boxing, and Google search and put your zip code in and find a location- a class or trainer that teaches that in your area.

Jackie Warner

#37. It's just cool to do something different and branch out and dabble in different genres.

Lights

#38. I think you can have moderate success by copying something else, but if you really want to knock it out of the park, you have to do something different and take chances.

Lee Ann Womack

#39. If you want God to do something new in you, you cannot keep doing the same old thing. You have to do something different.

Mark Batterson

#40. I had gotten pregnant with Apollo, and I didn't plan on that - it was just such a beautiful miracle. Four weeks later they called me and, like "Do you want to do The Voice?" It was this incredible opportunity to do something different.

Gwen Stefani

#41. I'm not trying to do something different, I'm trying to do the same thing but in a different way

Vivienne Westwood

#42. I suppose I have stopped modeling officially. I've not done any for a good long while now. I think it was four years ago when my feelings were changing towards the industry. I didn't hate it, but I was yearning to do something different. I was on a gradient. It was a gradual thing.

Agyness Deyn

#43. For me, my criteria for making films is all about trying to do something different from the last time. So if I catch myself doing too much of one thing, I'm always trying to move away from that, because it's not going to be challenging enough to keep my attention and focus.

Queen Latifah

#44. Hats are really for ultimate occasions, so when I make one, I try to do something different, something noticeable.

Philip Treacy

#45. I saw leaving college as an opportunity to do something different with my life. I always thought that becoming an academic was going to be my path.

Jodie Foster

#46. Whether or not you get what you're looknig for depends entirely on one things and one thing only. It depends on your willingness to do something different.

Wyatt Webb

#47. Every time I come with an album I try to do something different and obviously my life has an influence on how I feel and the type of message I want to give with the music.

David Guetta

#48. I'm talking about these people who've ended up in one life instead of another and they are just so disappointed. Do you know what I mean? They've done what's expected of them. They want to do something different but it's impossible now, ========== Station Eleven (Emily St. John Mandel)

Anonymous

#49. Victorian Self-Improvement Affirmations
"I shall venture to do something different after my postprandialconstitutional.
Today, I shall suffer fools gladly.

Beryl Dov

#50. With every movie, I try to do something different, whether it's action, comedy or drama.

Andrew Lau

#51. We're building a movement. It's undeniably a work in progress, but there's a fundamental desire to see capitalism to do something different.

Thomas Perez

#52. So it's not so much that I set out to do something different, it's just that the songs themselves require their own individual voice and attention.

Ben Harper

#53. I'm a great thief. I like to lift stuff and play it better. The real trick is taking whatever you've stolen and trying to do something different with it.

Carl Palmer

#54. Le Cirque at first was one of those general French restaurants in town, which were cooking more or less the same food. At Le Cirque, I wanted to do something different while respecting the foundation of the restaurant. I did that through the menu.

Daniel Boulud

#55. There are so many scripts and they are fantastic. I think I would like to do something different, maybe something smaller.

Emma Watson

#56. My idea is just to do something different each time; the next thing I do has to be completely different to the thing I've done before - that's what I try and do, because you know, I'm an actor, not a film star.

Eddie Marsan

#57. Any time you get a chance to do something different or get away from your appearance or get away from what people are used to seeing, I think it's always good.

Mark Consuelos

#58. I think the tone of the show has certainly changed over the years, because it's really, really hard to do something different when you have a show going on as long as this has.

Dan Castellaneta

#59. If you look at the films that I've done generally, you would probably get an idea of what I'm most interested in, and if ever I do something unusual like a science fiction film or an action film or a comedy or something, then that to me feels like a step to the side to do something different.

Guy Pearce

#60. So one day, in a fit of trying to do something different, I just dyed my hair dark brown and got my first role a week later, after which I thought: 'People are closed-minded, man! Like a different hair colour changes everything!'

Emma Stone

#61. I can't just say one time of the year I'm going to do something different. I have to commit to a lifestyle behavioral change and just try to be a little bit better today than I was yesterday.

Gabrielle Union

#62. We cannot expect to grow if we are too afraid or unwilling to change and face challenges. When we exit our everyday, mundane lifestyles to do something different we can experience growth, undiscovered strength, and new abilities within ourselves.

Ashley Ormon

#63. Every single person, pretty much, is taught what they're supposed to do: go to school, get a job, find someone to love, get married, have kids, raise the kids, and then die. Nobody questions that. What if you want to do something different?

Aziz Ansari

#64. I don't set out to write about spirituality; I am free to do something different every time.

Paulo Coelho

#65. You always want to do something different. I enjoy the process. I like making movies, and it's increasingly hard to find a movie you'd want to make.

John Landis

#66. If you're trying to do something different, you can't ask someone to help, because they'll want to make it not different.

Josh Homme

#67. If you want to do something different, you're going to come up against a lot of naysayers.

James Dyson

#68. Everybody was willing to give me a job. But I wanted to do something different. I saw myself as an independent person, self-employed.

Paul Rusesabagina

#69. I'm a firm believer that in-depth subjects can be better handled in a fantasy setting ... Let's face it, traveling to some far off land is a terrific way to break the mold, to do something different. Isn't that why we go on vacations?

Jim Starlin

#70. If you're an actor, a hard thing is to stick around, to stay viable. I try to do that by taking the opportunity to do something different every once in awhile.

Christopher Walken

#71. Though life shall come to an end one day, don't end life whilst living. So many people end their lives whilst they live before their lives come to a real end! There is always another tomorrow to do something different!

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#72. At this point, I feel like I can allow myself to be goofy and take more risks, and even if I do fall on my face, I know it's not the end of the world and at least I tried to do something different.

Dave Franco

#73. Well we were lucky because we started in Canada where everybody has a sense of humour! We flirted a little while with Josh Groban. He was personally interested in it. He said oh I'd love to do something different, and I said well it's pretty different! But in the end the dates didn't work out.

Eric Idle

#74. I have always strived to do something different, to push myself.

Seal

#75. The reason I stopped doing the band is that I wanted to do something different ... Yes had become like 'Groundhog Day' for me. I loved being in the band, but it was album-tour, album-tour, different album-different tour.

Trevor Rabin

#76. This kind of music was just hitting England, so we were getting this following in clubs in Birmingham just cause we were trying to do something different.

Jim Capaldi

#77. I'm always looking for a chance to do something different. I don't necessarily want to repeat myself, at any time, and I don't want to just do the same guy, over and over and over again. I want to be able to do different things and to evolve and constantly try to find those roles.

Colin Hanks

#78. I didn't want to do the obvious role that you see in Hollywood most of the time, which is the heartbroken girl who's waiting to be rescued by the guy, blah, blah, blah. I wanted to do something different.

Gal Gadot

#79. I've definitely been in relationships with friends where I wanted to do something different than I know a friend has. It's that complicated balance between wanting to do what you know is right for you and not wanting to hurt someone's feelings.

Mickey Sumner

#80. You can find dozens of books about people taking the Trans-Siberian Railroad. I knew I had to do something different to cross Siberia. To drive and to talk with people along the way, that was how I wrote my book 'Great Plains'. I drove and camped in Siberia, but did not have a real program.

Ian Frazier

#81. I had a bonding problem when I went off and boxed for five years. I was over in Europe and Asia fighting because I wanted to do something different; I was tired of acting. But the thing is, when I was done doing that, I couldn't get a job.

Mickey Rourke

#82. Certainly situation comedy is harder than people who are good at it make it look, but it's fun to do something different.

Laura San Giacomo

#83. I think a good director can embrace any genre and it's the kind of thing where you always want to do something different. You always want to challenge yourself.

David Ayer

#84. The welfare system was designed to do something different when it was started than what it does now. It was a safety net to help people get back to work: if they were sick, it would help them get back.

Ross Kemp

#85. I'm always trying to do something different and trying to keep myself amused.

T.C. Boyle

#86. Even if I play a similar role to one I've played before, I will never play it the same, I'll always try to do something different with it.

Andrew-Lee Potts

#87. I like to do something different that people don't expect. That's what I've always been about, in everything I do.

Chris Jericho

#88. I'm ready to do something different.

Tony La Russa

#89. My remit has always been: I want to do something different from the last thing I've done.

Ruth Wilson

#90. The British political system and the whole clapped out Westminster architecture, and the language that we use about politics, it's completely unsustainable. You either decide to be part of that transition to do something different. Or you cling to old certainties.

Nick Clegg

#91. Given the typical fee structures of hedge funds, they need to do something different to make money in a consistent way.

Paul Singer

#92. When you want things to change, you have to do something different.

C.J. Flood

#93. I have that thrill-seeking mentality, so when people want to know why my incarnations keep changing, or why I'll do something different than I did before, it's that same impulse.

Liz Phair

#94. 'Bloodshot,' for me, was unlike anything I'd ever done before, which was really the draw of it. In addition to trying to reconnect with my earlier work, I also wanted to try to do something that was completely new and different.

Jeff Lemire

#95. I do feel like I have always, in my life, been inclined to be on the outside, walk a different path or something. Because of that, and increasingly over the years, my sense of distance from mainstream society or from the way culture works, I have a different kind of perception of it.

Ian MacKaye

#96. There is nothing to fear. There is no such thing as death. Death has nothing to do with us. But you said something about being talented
that it makes one different. Now, that does have something to do with us. And talent in the highest and broadest sense means talent for life.

Boris Pasternak

#97. Oma says, when we were put on earth a really long time ago, each person came with a plant to heal all the troubles that come later ... We've got Indian balsam, sage, wild rose. We've got juniper berries and honeysuckle. All of them do something different inside, heal things.

J.J. Brown

#98. I just think that's the job of an actor. I guess that's the variation that you're talking about. It's probably a byproduct of just constantly looking for something different, because that's what I feel like I'm supposed to do.

Eric Bana

#99. I'm used to something where you have to create an entire world, and I do like that process. I like getting the audience to believe that outside of the frame of your television set, there's a whole real world that exists, that is different from your day-to-day reality.

Ronald D. Moore

#100. I'm sorry if this sounds harsh or surprises anyone, but this is where we are. If you want the outcome to be different, you will have to do something about it.

Sheryl Sandberg