Nobody can be exactly like me. Sometimes even I have trouble doing it.
It's great to work with somebody who wants to do things differently.
That's his style of hitting . If you can't imitate him, don't copy him.
A wonderful realization will be the day you realize that you are unique in all the world. There is nothing that is an accident. You are a special combination for a purpose-and don't let them tell you otherwise, even if they tell you that purpose is an illusion. (Live an illusion if you have to). You are that combination so that you can do what is essential for you to do. Don't ever believe that you have nothing to contribute. The world is an incredible unfulfilled tapestry. And only you can fulfill that tiny space that is yours.
In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different.
This is what the painter, the poet, the speculative philosopher, and the natural scientists do, each in his own fashion.
Is the acorn better than the oak which is its fullness and completion?
At bottom every man knows well enough that he is a unique being, only once on this earth; and by no extraordinary chance will such a marvelously picturesque piece of diversity in unity as he is, ever be put together a second time.
I may not be better than other people, but at least I'm different.
Few men are of one plain, decided color; most are mixed, shaded or blended; and vary as much from different situations, as changeable silks do from different lights.