Quotes About Nonconformity

I'm an outsider.

Because I have success, it doesn't mean I'm part of the mainstream. I'm still an outsider.

I wanted to make a movie that celebrates the outsider, the one who is different, the one who is not normal - and show how important that is.

I've always felt like an outsider, and I'll probably continue to always feel like an outsider. Hopefully that's a good thing. I feel like I approach things differently than other designers.

Everybody think they're an outsider - that word's over! When I was young, being an outsider, I thought it was a bad thing you didn't want to be.

I'd always been interested in the idea of the outsider.

I don't feel the pressure by outsiders. I'm not someone who's easily influenced by the public.

'Sex and the City' is about outsiders. Single girls as lepers, should have been married by now. It's the reason the whole thing took off.

I've been quite lucky in that the roles that I've been able to play are all kind of outsiders.

I'm not overly focused on being loved by everybody.

Weird here is something we aspire to, something we perfect, get degrees in, get awards for.

the hipster effect occurs, he suggests, when people try to make decisions in opposition to the majority. Because no one knows exactly what other people are going to do next, and information can be noisy or delayed, there can also be periods of brief "synchronization," in which nonconformists fail to be "disaligned with the majority.

I ain't got no spare/I ain't got no jack/I don't give a shit/I'm not going back

if organizations want leaders to drive change, they would be well advised to hire moderate misfits rather than candidates who are a perfect fit for the current culture. A carbon copy of the rest of the team could perpetuate rather than disrupt the status quo. At the same time, hiring people who are radically different will rarely generate the desired change. More likely, these leaders would end up disrupting only themselves.

My gameplan is not to have a gameplan.

Some of the most wonderful people are the ones who don't fit into boxes.

This is not your standard rock star's I-was-born-a-poor-genius self-deification, nor is it the opposite

I'm too wacky for most weirdos. Who am I to judge?

Some of the most wonderful people are the ones who don`t fit into boxes.

Most people would rather be sheep than stand on their own with antlers on.

All his life Snufkin had longed to pull down notices that asked him not to do things he liked to do.

According to the rules of chess, is this position possible?' Constance writes in response, 'Rules and schools are tools for fools—I don't give two mules for rules!

Rules and schools are tools for fools—I don't give two mules for rules!

Rules and school are tools for fools! I don't give two mules for rules.