Quotes About Idiosyncrasy

I don't make any sense: I'm a germaphobe, but I'm really messy.

This strategy suggests the following: To make the most out of your deep work sessions, build rituals of the same level of strictness and idiosyncrasy as the important thinkers mentioned previously. There's a good reason for this mimicry. Great minds like Caro and Darwin didn't deploy rituals to be weird; they did so because success in their work depended on their ability to go deep, again and again

most out of your deep work sessions, build rituals of the same level of strictness and idiosyncrasy as the important thinkers mentioned previously.

You're not weird, are you? (Jack) Not particularly, no. (Syd) Well, good. I got enough weirdness for the lot of us. Don't want to share it. (Jack)

I once had a boyfriend who couldn't write unless he was wearing a necktie and a dress shirt, which I thought was really weird, because this was a long time ago, and no one I knew ever wore dress shirts, let alone neckties it was like he was a grown-up reenacter or something.

I am interested in imperfections, quirkiness, insanity, unpredictability.

People are, well, people, and they all have their own quirks and will do whatever they want to no matter what you would like them to do.

If we think about it carefully, every configuration is particular, every configuration is singular, if we look at all of its details, since every configuration always has something about it that characterizes it in a unique way.

I believe that everyone in the world is crazy except you and me. And even you're a little bit strange.

A crash is when your competitor's program dies. When your program dies, it is an 'idiosyncrasy'. Frequently, crashes are followed with a message like 'ID 02'. 'ID' is an abbreviation for idiosyncrasy and the number that follows indicates how many more months of testing the product should have had.

The true enemy of man is generalization.

With monochrome painting... the idiosyncrasy of the work, its difference, its expression, lies in shape.

I never drink anything hot; I don't like hot drinks, very strange.

We've all got strange things about us and Lynch picks those things up.

I think we're all pretty odd.

What kind of human person has a favorite eraser?

The only success worth one's powder was success in the line of one's idiosyncrasy . what was talent but the art of being completely whatever one happened to be

They were my aunt and uncle; I loved them deeply, although both were mad as pants.

Some bookstores want you to believe they're a community center. Like they need to host a cookie making class class in order to sell you some Proust. But the Strand leaves you completely on your own. Caught between the warring forces of organization and idiosyncrasy, with idiosyncrasy winning every time.

Eccentricity is the universal trait of humanity.

We should all try to embrace our own quirkiness.

I'm a nut, I know I'm a nut, I enjoy being a nut so I'll stay a nut.