Quotes About Unconventionality

To be weird! That is my goal!

If I upset some notions and went against established rules, that wasn't part of what I wanted to do. It wasn't my goal.

We don't care how they do it in New York.

I suppose," he thought, "it is not good for me to flower as the other plants. If I began like them I should probably end like them, and I feel that I could not be satisfied with that. After all, one should not try to be so much like others, but to be the very best of one's own sort.

When your head is filled with things that other people don't seem to give much thought to - chymistry, star names, mandrake root, mathematicall magick - it can be hard to make friends. Being short, secretive, and smarter than everybody else doesn't help.

If [she] had come to prefer the company of odd ducks, it was possibly because they had no conception of oddity, or rather, they thought you were odd if you weren't.

But if everyone was made to look perfect, then no one would be special because being special meant being different, by offering something that wasn't on offer elsewhere.

Of course a certain number of scientists have to go mad, just to keep the tradition alive.

I am not a cowboy with a ranch and cattle, but I have this stable with some of the most beautiful horses in the world. I am not a farmer with a hundred-year-old farmhouse and acres of crops, but I have an island with acres of fertile land. I am not a mechanic with grease under my fingernails, but I know how to fix a flat tire. I am not your everyday average guy. I do not know if I can be one. But if you marry me, I will do my best to make your life as ordinary as you'd like.

Being very strange kept people away. And if people stayed away, you could never disappoint them.

Embrace your eccentricity and creativity, live outside the norm, and wait for the world to catch up.

The lesson of Buffett was: To succeed in a spectacular fashion you had to be spectacularly unusual.

These unusual times were quickly making for unusual arrangements.

Most movements have a fixed concept towards which they advance, we move away from all fixed concepts in order to advance.

What was great about the '50s is that, for one brief moment - maybe, say, six weeks - nobody understood art.

In the king's bed is always found, just before it becomes a museum piece, the droppings of the black sheep.

My private affairs are no concern of society's. Conventions are only made to be broken. Why shouldn't I have my own way of breaking them?

He loved the strange privacy of being different.

Se sei diverso hai due possibilità: o ti distingui o cerchi di passare inosservato

Where do new ideas come from? The answer is simple: differences. Creativity comes from unlikely juxtapositions.

He has repeatedly shown that by explaining neurological "oddities," he can shed light on the functioning of normal brains. "I hate crowds in science," he tells me. He doesn't fancy large scientific meetings either. "I tell my students, when you go to these meetings, see what direction everyone is headed, so you can go in the opposite direction. Don't polish the brass on the bandwagon." Beginning

The real things are apt to be deviant.

The world needs people like you,' Simmon said in the tone of voice that let me know he was turning philosophical. 'You get things done. Not always the best way, or the most sensible way, but it gets done nonetheless. You're a rare creature.

His master was a man with the heart of a dog. He was a rambler, a rough-and-ready soldier of fortune, a one-of-a-kind two-leg who improvised the rules as he went along. They