Quotes About Nonconformity

I don't understand you. I can't treat myself like a hurdy-gurdy from which I can take out an unpopular piece and put in a tune that everybody is whistling.

Why fit in when you're born to stand out?

I have always despised people who join societies. In general, I feel that groups of any kind are for the weak. The need for consensus is the most disgusting and pathetic aspect of our human world. Is there none who can simply wander alone beneath a sort of cloth tent painted with dreams?

Conformity is the ruin of the mind.

Skipping: the ultimate display of nonconformity.

We are all the same in that we all want to be different.

The devil take all conventions, they were made for other times.

Fuck literature.

If the other fishermen heard me talk aloud, they would probably think I'm mad. But since I'm not, I really do not care

Only dead fish swim with the current.

The shift that happens when you refuse to remain or be defined by the average comes when you cross a line others would consider madness.

Want to give up saving the world and come play with me?" There is something utterly fearless about her that I admire. While I've been fretting about how to put my skills to better use for humanity and almost dying or getting imprisoned in the process, here's a free spirit who's decided to let the world figure its own shit out while she has a blast making a fortune's worth of fuck-you money.

could never brook authority or discipline.

Some people have a personality disorder where they just have to go against the herd, right or wrong. They're so committed to their own lone-wolf image that...Well, put it this way: if the others suddenly came over to their side, they'd switch sides.

He's just "me, me, by myself, all alone". A lone wolf! But you can see he's no hunter, that he's a stranger to the forest. Wolves don't hunt alone! Never! A lone wolf, ha, what twaddle, foolish townie nonsense. But he doesn't understand that!

Something can't be a rule if there are exceptions to it. And please don't give me any banal untruths about exceptions proving the rule. Tell me something about exceptions as such." "Only one thing," she said coldly, "can be said about exceptions. They exist. Nothing more.

Czarnow?osy, chudy i smag?y, wygl?da? na Cygana albo na kogo?, kto znalaz? si? tutaj przypadkiem. On zawsze wygl?da? tak, jakby si? przysiad?, bo akurat by?o wolne miejsce. My?la?, kpi?, nudzi? si? na w?asny rachunek.

and his legacy. "If you are doing what everyone else is doing, you are doing something wrong. Why? Because most people are not obtaining results that are considered extraordinary.

Only dead fish go with the flow.

I don't want to rap about my car. How generic is that? Be creative.

Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind.3

I want to die with my blue jeans on.

An artist is someone who produces things that people don't need to have but that he — for some reason — thinks it would be a good idea to give them.

You have to do stuff that average people don't understand because those are the only good things.