Get off the beaten track

• I live a reasonably simple life, off the beaten track. George Lucas
• It’s a toss-up when you decide to leave the beaten track. Many are called, few are chosen. Somerset Maugham
• You know I am not born to tread in the beaten track; the peculiar bent of my nature pushes me on. Mary Wollstonecraft
• It is remarkable how easily and insensibly we fall into a particular route, and make a beaten track for ourselves. Henry David Thoreau
• True morality consists not in following the beaten track, but in finding the true path for ourselves, and fearlessly following it. Mahatma Gandhi
• Classical education has deformed everything, and has imposed upon us as geniuses men of correct, facile talent, who follow the beaten track. Emile Zola
• Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Leave the beaten track behind occasionally and dive into the woods. Every time you do you will be certain to find something you have never seen before. Alexander Graham Bell
• In many cases, ignorance is a good thing : the mind retains its freedom of investigation and does not stray along roads that lead nowhither, suggested by one’s reading. I have experienced this once again. … Yes, ignorance can have its advantages; the new is found far from the beaten track. Jean-Henri Fabre
• Artists and creative workers – people who have accomplished work worthwhile have had a very high sense of the way to do things. They haven’t been contented with mediocrity. They haven’t confined themselves to the beaten tracks; they have never been satisfied to do things just as others do them, but always a little better. Few are those who see with their own eyesand feel with their own hearts. Albert Einstein
• Don’t keep forever on the public road, going only where others have gone. Leave the beaten track occasionally and dive into the woods. You will be certain to find something you have never seen before. Of course it will be a little thing, but do not ignore it. One discovery will lead to another, and before you know it, you will have something worth thinking about to occupy your mind, and really big discoveries are the result of thought. Alexander Graham Bell
• People who have accomplished work worthwhile have had a very high sense of the way to do things. They have not been content with mediocrity. They have not confined themselves to the beaten tracks; they have never been satisfied to do things just as others so them, but always a little better. They always pushed things that came to their hands a little higher up, this little farther on, that counts in the quality of life’s work. It is constant effort to be first-class in everything one attempts that conquers the heights of excellence. Orison Swett Marden

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Take the road less travelled

• Take the road less travelled. Robin Sharma
• Always follow your path, or the road less travelled. Dinesh Sharma
• I admire anyone that follows the road less travelled. Kevin McCloud
• Sometimes the road less traveled is less traveled for a reason. Jerry Seinfeld
• Always choose the new, the less travelled by. Always choose the unknown, the less travelled by. Rajneesh
• Two roads diverged in a wood and I – I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference. Robert Frost
• I was faced with a choice: to deny my addiction and embrace that ‘comfortably numb’ but ‘magicless’ existence, or accept the burden of insight, take the road less travelled, and embark on the often painful journey to discover who I was and where I fit. Roger Waters
• Seize the opportunities life has to offer you. Embrace the changes, and have the courage to travel on roads less travelled, even though what is in front of you could be tough, make it successful. Have determination and courage to kick down the brick walls in front of you, and to go on and achieve bigger success than you ever thought possible. Li Cunxin

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Embrace a unique path

• I realize how unique my path has been. And I’m thankful for that. Vanessa Paradis
• Don’t compare your path with anybody else’s. Your path is unique to you. Ram Dass
• We all must follow a different path to let our light shine, and that’s what makes us so unpredictable and unique. John Legend
• Not that the path was smooth and pothole free. But still, it was my path, and like me, it was bound to be unique. P. C. Cast
• When a path opens up before us that leads we know not where, don’t be afraid to follow it. Our lives are meant to be mysterious journeys, unfolding one step at a time. Often we follow a path worn smooth by the many and in doing so we lose our authenticity, our individuality, our own unique expression. Do not be afraid to lose your way. Out of chaos, clarity will eventually rise. Out of not knowing, something new and unknown will ultimately come. Do not order things too swiftly. Wait and the miracle will appear. Ann Mortifee
• What I’ve learned over the years is that the path less traveled always makes for a more interesting journey. If you simply do what everyone else is doing, how can you ever expect to excel and create something wonderful and unique in your life? Bear Grylls
• There will be no one like us when we are gone, but then there is no one like anyone else, ever. When people die, they cannot be replaced. They leave holes that cannot be filled, for it is the fate – the genetic and neural fate – of every human being to be a unique individual, to find his
• own path, to live his own life, to die his own death. Oliver Sacks