Quotes About Nonconformity

The people who invented the twenty-first century were pot-smoking, sandal-wearing hippies from the West Coast like Steve, because they saw differently," he said. "The hierarchical systems of the East Coast, England, Germany, and Japan do not encourage this different thinking. The sixties produced an anarchic mind-set that is great for imagining a world not yet in existence.

At its core were certain principles: authority should be questioned, hierarchies should be circumvented, nonconformity should be admired, and creativity should be nurtured.

Jobs quickly became bored with college. He liked being at Reed, just not taking the required classes.

One person who encouraged the denizens of the counterculture

The people who invented the twenty-first century were pot-smoking, sandal-wearing hippies from the West Coast like Steve, because they saw differently," he said. "The hierarchical systems of the East Coast, England, Germany, and Japan do not encourage this different thinking.

Leonardo fell into that category. He was born out of wedlock, gay, left-handed, a vegetarian, and was easily distracted, and that helped instill a sense of wonder at how he fit into this world.

Para Leonardo, haber nacido fuera del matrimonio propició que no tuviera que ser enviado a una de las «escuelas de latín» que enseñaban los clásicos y las humanidades a los aspirantes a profesionales y a los comerciantes del Quattrocento.

Eisenhower, in short, had perfected the art of playing against his assigned role, first as a nonmilitary general and later as a nonpolitical president. This deliberately cultivated style had proved enormously successful in war. How would it work in the White House?

The refusal to belong to any school of thought, the repudiation of the adequacy of any body of beliefs whatever, and especially of systems, and a marked dissatisfaction with traditional philosophy as superficial, academic, and remote from life—that is the heart of existentialism.

Where all think alike, no one thinks very much.

When all think alike, then no one is thinking.

When I got the tattoo, I knew I was drawing a crooked line between myself and society.

If you follow the herd, you'll end up stepping in shit.

You don't have to be just like everybody else … there is another way.

Deixe de procurar uma resposta numa existência de regras e tradições. Entoe seu próprio cântico de felicidade da maneira que você escolher, sem pensar em como se esperaria que ele fosse.

Si sigues al rebaño acabarás pisando excrementos».

There is no percentage in rebelling just for the sake of rebelling, but there are great rewards in being your own person and living your life according to your own standards.

She just wanted to be comfortable in her own skin...But she would not stop to seek others' approval. The notion that she should never seemed to enter her head. Her right to live as she pleased was not up for negotiation, even if it ran against the grain of the milieu at Huntingdon.

At the same time, he studiously avoided becoming a textbook player. He wanted to blend the best of the received wisdom into a refined version of his crazy-seeming "harum scarum" style. He wanted to play a slightly different game than everyone else was playing, to be out of sync with the anticipated rhythms, protocols, and conventions.

Mimicking the herd invites regression to the mean (merely average performance).

I am not a political man and I have no political convictions. I am an individual and a believer in liberty. That is all the politics I have.

Éramos criaturas do presente e não uma produção do passado nem uma promessa do futuro. Éramos aceites tal como éramos sem rótulos de "Quem é Quem" e registos de rendimentos.

Why not? Why not be your own man for once in your life — do what you want to — not what other people want you to?

just because I'm a little weird doesn't mean I'm wrong.