Quotes About Nonconformity

Never take direction for your personal life from a crowd.

When I was heavier, I danced and I jumped out of planes. I've always rejected the idea that there's a certain look or size that makes it acceptable to live life.

In literature as in life, to conform to anything is to knuckle under to your inferiors.

You'll never stand out if your goal in life is to fit in.

I thought of myself as kind of an anarchist all my whole adult life, from the days when I was 15 or 16.

And my experience in the music scene had shown me that there were places for places in the world where misfits were welcome.

There are plenty of people in the world whose lives are governed by rote and routine. Such people will never be happy dealing with me, because I don't conform. Luckily, the world is also full of people who care about results, and those people are usually very happy with me, because my Asperger's compels me to be the ultimate expert in whatever field of interest I choose. And with substantial knowledge, I can obtain good results.

I felt like a fraud because I could not do anything in the normal way. I couldn't complete school. I couldn't "advance through the ranks." I couldn't "do it by the book." And I always ignored the rules.

There are plenty of people in the world whose lives are governed by rote and routine. Such people will never be happy dealing with me, because I don't conform. Luckily, the world is also full of people who care about results, and those people are usually very happy with me,

Conformity is that jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.

Don't ... depend on current fashion or ... popular opinion.

I wasn't normal, and no matter how hard I tried, I was never going to be. And though I didn't hear it at the time, a small part of me exclaimed "Good!

I always preferred to hang out with the outcasts, 'cause they were cooler they had better taste in music, for one thing, I guess because they had more time to develop one with the lack of social interaction they had!

Badges? We ain't got no badges. We don't need no badges. I don't have to show you any stinking badges!

employers sense in me a denial of their values...they fear me. i suspect that they can see that i am forced to function in a century which i loathe.

I'm not going to change the way I look or the way I feel to conform to anything. I've always been a freak. So I've been a freak all my life and I have to live with that, you know. I'm one of those people.

I'm not going to change the way I look or the way I feel to conform to anything. I've always been a freak. So I've been a freak all my life and I have to live with that, you know. I'm one of those people.

Liberty is to be free from restraint and violence from others

Idiosyncratic types are sustained by the rich inner worlds of their Selves; they may or may not be successful by other people's standards or fit comfortably into the social order, but no matter what others say or convention dictates, they continue to march to their own drummer.

Typically, he found some value in his troublemaking and in the punishment he earned for it. "You get to know people that you don't ordinarily know if you're one of the good boys. And sometimes the world's not always made up of all the good boys either, not by a long shot," he said.

I think being different, going against the grain of society is the greatest thing in the world.

The sex was so passionate it bordered on violence. It was not vanilla. It was passion as suffering

I don't give a sharp-cheddar cheese wedge what your mother says!

Do I look like someone who cares about what God thinks?