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Quotes About Unconventional

You are a full of beautiful madness, an unreasonable reason, but you make sense in all things senseless.
~ S.W. Collins
There are a world of answers, outside the loop.
~ Anthony Liccione
Contra the prevailing belief, success isn't being on top of a hierarchy, it is standing outside all hierarchies.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Only the autodidacts are free. And not just in school matters—those who decommoditize, detouristify their lives.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Indeed the normal is often irrelevant.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
He did not even bother to have a desk, let alone an office.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
to be honorable implies not fearing the appearance and consequences of being outlandish.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
when you have a very limited loss you need to get as aggressive, as speculative, and sometimes as "unreasonable" as you can be.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
some idiosyncratic behavior on the part of the individual (deemed at first glance "irrational") may be necessary for efficient functioning at the collective level.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
With few exceptions, those who dress outrageously are robust or even antifragile in reputation; those clean-shaven types who dress in suits and ties are fragile to information about them.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
I'm Cochran. Cochran Stæinsby," he said. "But you can call me Ran." "What a curious nickname." "Well, the first half of Cochran is a bit problematic for a nickname, isn't it?
~ Neal Shusterman
There have always been, and will always be, those who exist on the fringe of reason
~ Neal Shusterman
Le beau est toujours bizarre
~ Charles Baudelaire
Sometimes you just have to pee in the sink.
~ Charles Bukowski
Understand me. I'm not like an ordinary world. I have my madness, I live in another dimension and I do not have time for things that have no soul.
~ Charles Bukowski
The crazy ones only laugh when there is no reason to laugh.
~ Charles Bukowski
I paid, got up, walked to the door, opened it. I heard the man say, that guy's nuts. out on the street I walked north feeling curiously honored.
~ Charles Bukowski
Are you anti-black? I'm anti-everything.
~ Charles Bukowski
What is your advice to young writers?" "Drink, fuck and smoke plenty of cigarettes." "What is your advice to older writers?" "If you're still alive, you don't need any advice." "What is the impulse that makes you create a poem?" "What makes you take a shit?" "What do you think of Reagan and unemployment?" "I don't think of Reagan or unemployment.
~ Charles Bukowski
I'd rather stick my head up an elephant's cunt
~ Charles Bukowski
Entiéndeme. No soy como un mundo ordinario. Tengo mi locura, vivo en otra dimensión y no tengo tiempo para cosas sin alma
~ Charles Bukowski
os loucos e os bêbados são os últimos santos que sobraram na Terra.
~ Charles Bukowski
If investing is all about creativity and making unusual, unconventional, and even unpopular decisions, great investment decisions are best made by individuals taking direct responsibility for the results of their own acts.
~ Charles D. Ellis
God uses those who seem ill-fitted for a significant life.
~ Charles R. Swindoll