Powerful

I came across this on September 21st 1997. It was my first day at my first job in advertising (www.thinkhmh.com). It made a huge impact on how I went about building the career that was to follow, not to mention my life outside of work.

ON CREATIVITY

The man who follows the crowd, will usually get no further than the crowd. The man who walks alone is likely to find himself in places no one has ever seen before.

Creativity in living is not without its attendant difficulties, for peculiarity breeds contempt. And the unfortunate thing about being ahead of your time is that when people finally realize you were right, they’ll say it was obvious all along.

You have two choices in life: you can dissolve into the mainstream, or you can be distinct. To be distinct, you must be different. To be different, you must strive to be what no one else but you can be.

-Unknown, but I am searching for the author