Quotes About Nonconformity

My future was planned before my birth. I was supposed to get married or be involved in the family business. But I was all about breaking barriers and started thinking out of the box when I was 13-14 years old. Finally, at 17, I floated my own Microfinance Institution (MFI) called Svatantra.

I'm sure people think that I'm out in left field you know, playing by myself.

I am surely happy to be breaking away from the norm when it comes to my songs.

I find most 'rules' about how to write a 'good story' confining, and I enjoy writing stories that don't look like stories at all on the surface.

I don't want plastic surgery or fillers or Botox.

I think there's something funny about people who laugh in the face of convention or surprise us morally.

Continue to surprise those who would put you in a neat demographic. Be insistently curious.

Personally, I've never been popular, so I'm not surprised that professionally I'm a bit out of step, too.

I don't like planning, because it robs me of freedom, so I'd like a 24 hours that was full of surprises.

Why, Jon, why? his mother asked. Why is it so hard to be like the rest of the flock, Jon? Why can't you leave low flying to the pelicans, the alhatross? Why don't you eat? Son, you're bone and feathers! I don't mind being bone and feathers mom. I just want to know what I can do in the air and what I can't, that's all. I just want to know.

This kind of thinking, he found, is not the way to make one's self popular with other birds. Even his parents were dismayed as Jonathan spent whole days alone, making hundreds of low-level glides, experimenting.

Why, Jon, why?" his mother asked. "Why is it so hard to be like the rest of the flock, Jon? Why can't you leave low flying to the pelicans, the albatross? Why don't you eat? Son, you're bone and feathers!" "I don't mind being bone and feathers, mom. I just want to know what I can do in the air and what I can't, that's all. I just want to know.

Allow the world to live as it chooses, and allow yourself to live as you choose.

I allow the world to live as it chooses, and I allow me to live as I choose.

organizing atheists has been compared to herding cats, because they tend to think independently and will not conform to authority. But a good first step would be to build up a critical mass of those willing to 'come out', thereby encouraging others to do so. Even if they can't be herded, cats in sufficient numbers can make a lot of noise and they cannot be ignored.

What others believe is not my concern, unless they attempt to force it on me.

When you don't like the laws, you go somewhere they can't touch you. And then you make up some of your own.

The conventional accept and are frequently charmed by a certain unconventionality.

poetry's packaged as a late-night slot, a quote minority taste unquote, like water-skiing or goat-fucking or something.

They didn't want you to fake adherence to their banal taste and meaningless critical slogans – they wanted you actually to believe in them.

Why should I be polished and improved like goods for sale? I might not even want to marry! And besides, I have many skills. I can read and write and play the flute and harp. Why should I change to please some man? If he doesn't like me the way I am, then he can get some other girl for his wife.

If you are free, you are not predicatable and you are not controllable.

When we heard about the hippies, the barely more than boys and girls who decided to try something different ... we laughed at them. We condemned them, our children, for seeking a different future. We hated them for their flowers, for their love, and for their unmistakable rejection of every hideous, mistaken compromise that we had made throughout our hollow, money-bitten, frightened, adult lives

If you are free, you are not predictable and you are not controllable.