Quotes About Nonconformity

If everybody is doing it one way, there's a good chance you can find your niche by going exactly in the opposite direction.

We refused to be what the world want us to be- BAD. We are what we are- GOOD. And that's the way it is going to be.

Break rules. Leave the world more interesting for your being here.

Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.

A great mind must be androgynous.

Great minds think for themselves.

I simply find it boring to walk around like everybody else. I find it really great to stand out and do something special.

If you obey all the rules you miss all the fun.

It is more important to be free than to be happy.

I am not in favor of imposing happiness on people. Everyone has a right to his bad wine, to his stupidity, and to his dirty fingernails.

Happiness is doing it rotten your own way.

It's more important to be free than to be happy.

To be original, or different, is felt to be "dangerous."

If being sane is thinking there's something wrong with being different, I'd rather be completely #$%^&^& mental.

Recall how often in human history the saint and the rebel have be the same person. (p. 35)

I read more and more and I came across this character, Caroline Weldon. Sometimes in history, you find these people that no one would dare create. They're too mad.

I saw myself as an outsider as a teen. I was home-schooled and got my G.E.D. when I was 16; I wasn't interested in high school at all and figured that college might be more entertaining.

I'm not the girl that sits at home on a Saturday night plaiting her girlfriend's hair, drinking tea and watching romantic comedies.

A writer must refuse to allow himself to be transformed into an institution, even if it takes place in the most honorable form.

We just kind of did our own thing and got made fun of by the popular kids. It was kind of like a badge of honor to be an outcast.

We must beware of yielding to the pressure of a spirit of cowardly conformity which proclaims itself everybody's friend in the hope that everybody will obligingly return the compliment.

I do a lot of things hopin I never had to fit in, so tryin to keep up with my progress is like a dead end.

As far as socially redeeming value, I hope I don't have any.

The human condition ... is defined by the aspiration to always supersede oneself, which in turn requires nonconformity.