Quotes About Maverick

I was born in 1950, so there were tons of Westerns on TV by the time I was 6, 7, 8 years old. In terms of television, 'Maverick' and 'Have Gun - Will Travel.' But filmically, classics like 'High Noon' and 'The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance' - that's one of my favorite films.

Whenever possible, I operate outside the system.

Mavericks are nonconformists. They pride themselves on going it alone.

I think Ted Cruz does a really good job; he's a rabble-rouser and thinks outside of the box.

The US was fully capable of catching up from behind. In Reed's view, free societies, whose people were raised with a can-do attitude and whose culture embraced individualistic, maverick approaches, could outpace scientists raised in tightly controlled totalitarian societies every time.

Computer programming has always been a self-taught, maverick occupation.

I have contrarian tendencies.

Is he a renegade, works best by himself, alienates those in authority? Actually, that would be you, dear. True

Here's to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently.

The most successful people are mavericks who aren't afraid to ask why, especially when everyone thinks it's obvious.

I don't follow the rules!

I'm a trendsetter. I'm a leader, not a follower.

out·li·er -,l()r noun 1: something that is situated away from or classed differently from a main or related body 2: a statistical

We need to awaken the intellectual maverick within ourselves

American culture, perhaps more than any other, prizes individualism. Our narratives of art, politics, and business idolize the person who triumphs against the odds, with only himself or herself to answer to. The lone wolf. The stranger in town. The maverick. The plucky kid. The Final Girl. You've only got yourself, in the end. It's all up to you.

The horses Have each seen a share of the truth, though each thinks, "I'm a maverick. Nothing of this is happening to me

I have done quite a lot of outsider figures.

When everybody goes left, I'm gonna go right most of the time.

They say I'm a revolutionary, but they're all wrong.

Since I'm a contrarian, I don't want to go along with what everyone else thinks.

If you were a member of Jesse James's band and people asked you what you were, you wouldn't say, "Well, I'm a desperado." You'd say something like, "I work in banks," or "I've done some railroad work." It took me a long time just to say, "I'm a writer." It's really embarrassing.

Well, American composers are the best composers. At this time in the world, we are where the energy is. We are the most diverse, the most iconoclastic, the most maverick, and the most skillful.

I passionately hate the idea of being with it; I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.

Me, I like to go against the grain.