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Quotes About Nonconventional

I cannot bear to associate with the ordinary run of people. I have to surround myself with individuals who for the most part are more than a trifle insane
~ Wallace Thurman
Thoughtful investors build investment programs on a fundamental understanding of the reasons for pursuing a nonconventional approach.
~ David F. Swensen
I don't hold myself dictated to by what everyone is saying, by the tabloids or popular opinion. I don't like bourgeois values. I say you find your own way to live.
~ James Salter
Then there's me… non-relevant, non-predicable… ass-headed.
~ Beatrice Sparks
I didn't come from a traditional background of studying theater and doing Shakespeare.
~ David Boreanaz
I've always had bizarre, negative feelings about anything traditional, like marriage and family. I never thought something like that worked.
~ Gerard Way
Do not descend amongst professors or capitalists.
~ Walt Whitman
Underestimation of nonconventional units or a guerrilla enemy by regular forces is a cardinal military sin.
~ Unknown
Superficial conceptualizations, positivist determinations of a great truth: there is the id as perception that is imperception, nonconventional thought (and not hidden adequate thought); there is the ego, the perception-consciousness apparatus, like a system of attitudes which avoid, bypass the id--(without going so far as to be consciousness of the unconscious).
~ Maurice Merleau-Ponty