Quotes About Nonconformity

I've often been told that I'm a bit strange. I hear that pretty regularly, but it is not how I see myself.

Most people just settle - for a job or relationship, or where we live. Here's the strange thing though: when you start going outside the box and questioning things, then people - because we're taught this - start ridiculing you.

We're not very accepting of people who act strangely.

Everything popular is wrong. —OSCAR WILDE, The Importance of Being Earnest

Civilization had too many rules for me, so I did my best to rewrite them. —BILL COSBY

Siempre que te descubras en el lado de la mayoría, es hora de detenerse a reflexionar.» MARK TWAIN

Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. —MARK TWAIN Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination. —OSCAR WILDE, Irish dramatist and novelist

Crazy Is a Compliment: The Power of Zigging When Everyone Else Zags.

It's good to recognize trends, but if you follow them, you get sucked into them, and then you also fall with the trend.

Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. —MARK TWAIN

Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it's time to pause and reflect." —Mark Twain.

No aceptes las normas de tu tiempo

Most people go through life and never develop strong views on things, or specifically go along and buy into the consensus. One of the things I think you want to look for as both a founder and as an investor is things that are out of consensus, something very much opposed to the conventional wisdom. . . . Then, if you're going to start a company around

Be bold and don't worry about what people think. They don't do it that often anyway.

The biggest mistake you can make is to accept the norms of your time.' Not accepting norms is where you innovate, whether it's with technology, with books, with anything. So, not accepting the norm is the secret to really big success and changing the world.

There is always constant pressure to conform. But originality only happens on the edges of reality.

The biggest mistake you can make is to accept the norms of your time.

It's good not to follow the herd. Go the other way. If everyone's going that way, you go this other way. You're gonna stumble, but you're also gonna stumble upon an idea no one came up with. . . .

Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it's time to pause and reflect." —Mark Twain. This

What Makes These People Different?

Turn on, tune in and drop out.

Turn on, Tune in, Drop out

It is those who were considered exceptional, eccentric, or even insane in their own time—those who did not change when the world around them did—whom we remember and admire today.

Stand out. Someone has to. It is easy, in words and deeds, to follow along. It can feel strange to do or say something different. But without that unease, there is no freedom. And the moment you set an example, the spell of the status quo is broken, and others will follow.