Quotes About Nonconformity

a radical and transformative thought goes nowhere without the willingness to challenge convention.

David has nothing to lose, and because he has nothing to lose, he has the freedom to thumb his nose at the rules set by others. That's how people with brains a

If you're always following the crowd, you will never truly know who you are. Walk your own path.

Step out from the crowd because it'll lead you nowhere..!

Step out from the crowd because it'll lead to nowhere..!

Stand out because you think differently.Stand out because you speak differently.Stand out because you act differently.Stand out because you work differently.Stand out because you live differently.

Every great brand goes back to a courageous individual who dared to say 'NO' to the status quo.

If you do what everyone else does, you will get what everyone else gets.

Break the rules, stand apart, ignore your head, and follow your heart,

I'm a sworn enemy of convention. I despite the conventional in anything, even the arts. I paint canvasses on the floor and drove one art teacher out of his mind. But that's just the way I paint best.

To think is to differ.

The key to success for everything in business, science and technology is never to follow the others.

How strange that venturing away from accepted wisdom was the very path by which she found herself

I disregard the proportions, the measures, the tempo of the ordinary world. I refuse to live in the ordinary world as ordinary women. To enter ordinary relationships. I want ecstasy. I am a neurotic — in the sense that I live in my world. I will not adjust myself to the world. I am adjusted to myself.

I will not adjust myself to the world. I am adjusted to myself.

I'm neurotic--in the sense that I live in my world. I will not adjust myself to the world. I am adjusted to myself.

I don't really want to become normal, average, standard. I want merely to gain in strength, in the courage to live out my life more fully, enjoy more, experience more. I want to develop even more original and more unconventional traits.

Ordinary life does not interest me.

I can only tell you that my surroundings are me. Everything is me, because I have rejected all conventions, the opinion of the world, all its laws. I am not obliged, as you and Jeanne are, to play a social role.

There is a fantastic courage in this, to live without laws, without fetters, without thought of consequences.

They don't act like human beings and they're pretty proud of it so there's no point in pretending they are; though you want to - pretend.

neither gay nor straight, just odd

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.

When other little girls wanted to be ballet dancers, I kind of wanted to be a vampire.