Quotes about Nonconformity
I guess what I want to say to us artists and entrepreneurs is that conventional yardsticks of success don't apply to all enterprises. Labors of love count.
— Steven Pressfield
I'm not going to start churning out what you expect. If you want me to be a manufactured act, you can f*** off.
— Lady Gaga
We wish to be damned with you, rather than blessed with all our brothers. Do
— Ayn Rand
What is my life, if I am but to bow, to agree, and to obey?
— Ayn Rand
Have you always liked being Howard Roark?" Roark smiled. The smile was amused, astonished, involuntarily contemptuous.
— Ayn Rand
I don't think I represent some new category. I think I do represent kind of a freethinker.
— Marianne Williamson
I have always marched to my own beat, and most frequently, it was inconsistent not only with my own immediate family, but with my culture as well.
— Wayne Dyer
Avoid popularity if you would have peace.
— Abraham Lincoln
If you're always trying to be normal you will never know how amazing you can be.
— Maya Angelou
If you're always trying to be normal, you'll never know how amazing you can be.
— Maya Angelou
When God desires to do "a new thing" (Isa. 43:19), He purposely seeks out a few righteous renegades who don't have a problem breaking the mold! Mold-breakers are usually people who don't care much about popularity or tradition.
— Beth Moore
Stay stupid. Follow your unconventional, crazy heart. If your notion violates every precept I've set forth in these pages, tell me to go to hell. Do what that voice says.
— Steven Pressfield