Unconventional Quotes

• A keen sense of humor helps us to overlook the unbecoming, understand the unconventional, tolerated the unpleasant, overcome the unexpected, and outlast the unbearable.

  Billy Graham

  Humor, Adversity, Overcoming

  Billy Graham (1993). “Hope for the Troubled Heart: Finding God in the Midst of Pain”, Bantam

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• When people say they do not care what others think of them, for the most part they deceive themselves. Generally they mean only that they will do as they choose, in the confidence that no one will know their vagaries; and at the utmost only that they are willing to act contrary to the opinion of the majority because they are supported by the approval of their neighbours. It is not difficult to be unconventional in the eyes of the world when your unconventionality is but the convention of your set.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Mean, Eye, Thinking

  The Moon and Sixpence ch. 14 (1919)

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• People will always try to stop you from doing the right thing if it is unconventional.

  Warren Buffett

  Learning, People, Environmental

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• It is not difficult to be unconventional in the eyes of the world when your unconventionality is but the convention of your set.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Eye, Deception, Independence

  The Moon and Sixpence ch. 14 (1919)

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• 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

  Anais Nin

  Average, Want, Gains

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• Be creative. Use unconventional thinking. And have the guts to carry it out.

  Lee Iacocca

  Confidence, Thinking, Creative

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• The key to success is to risk thinking unconventional thoughts. Convention is the enemy of progress.

  Trevor Baylis

  Success, Thinking, Keys

  "A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future". Book by Daniel H. Pink, 2005.

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• We just have to have the courage to turn against our habitual lifestyle and engage in unconventional living.

  Christopher McCandless

  Lifestyle, Turns, Habitual

  Letter to Russell Fritz (as known as Ron Franz), April 1992.

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• I like being unconventional.

  Florence Griffith Joyner

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• Don't be afraid to do something unconventional, to take a chance, to risk something.

  Tom Brokaw

  Risk, Chance, Take A Chance

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• The moment we shake our addiction to narrative and give up our strong-headed intent that language must say something "meaningful," we open ourselves up to different types of linguistic experience, which could include sorting and structuring words in unconventional ways: by constraint, by sound, by the way words look, and so forth, rather than always feeling the need to coerce them toward meaning.

  Kenneth Goldsmith

  Meaningful, Strong, Giving Up

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• Few things in this world are more predictable than the reaction of conventional minds to unconventional ideas.

  John Anthony West

  Ideas, Mind, World

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• You are not your mother, your father, your history, or your cultural influences. You are uniquely and originally you. Be bold and daring and fearless and unconventional. Be willing to use your voice in service to your soul. Go on. Rock that damn boat. The wave you create might just change the world.

  Cheryl Richardson

  Mother, Father, Rocks

  FaceBook post by Cheryl Richardson from Nov 30, 2011

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• The type of UFO reports that are most intriguing are close-range sightings of machinelike objects of unconventional nature and unconventional performance characteristics, seen at low altitudes, and sometimes even on the ground. The general public is entirely unaware of the large number of such reports that are coming from credible witnesses... When one starts searching for such cases, their number are quite astonishing.

  James E. McDonald

  Numbers, Sometimes, Intriguing

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• Young people get the foolish idea that what is new for them must be new for everybody else too. No matter how unconventional they get, they're just repeating what others before them have done.

  Yukio Mishima

  Ideas, People, Done

  Yukio Mishima (2010). “After The Banquet”, p.10, Random House

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• The great subversive works of children's literature suggest that there are other views of human life besides those of the shopping mall and the corporation. They mock current assumptions and express the imaginative, unconventional, noncommercial view of the world in its simplest and purest form. They appeal to the imaginative, questioning, rebellious child within all of us, renew our instinctive energy, and act as a force for change. This is why such literature is worthy of our attention and will endure long after more conventional tales have been forgotten.

  Alison Lurie

  Children, Views, Shopping

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• Two world wars, three monstrous dictatorships-in Soviet Russia, Nazi Germany, Red China-plus every lesser variant of devastating socialist experimentation in a global spread of brutality and despair, have not prompted modern intellectuals to question or revise their dogma. They still think that it is daring, idealistic and unconventional to denounce the rich. They still believe that money is the root of all evil-except government money, which is the solution to all problems.

  Ayn Rand

  War, Believe, Thinking

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• To allow only the kind of art that the average man understands is the worst small-mindedness and the murder of mind and spirit. It is my conviction that the intellect can be certain that in doing what most disconcerts the crowd, in pursuing the most daring, unconventional advances and explorations, it will in some highly indirect fashion serve man - and in the long run, all men.

  Thomas Mann

  Running, Fashion, Art

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• But it is not conscious strategy to go for unconventional roles.

  Anil Kapoor

  Roles, Strategy, Conscious

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• Jeanne Moreau, Lauren Bacall, they had this unconventional beauty, this amazing charisma.

  Josephine de La Baume

  Lauren, Charisma

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• Pollock was well known, certainly, but for all the wrong reasons. He was known as much for being wild and unconventional in his working methods as for being a great artist.

  Kenneth Noland

  Artist, Reason, Well Known

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• Not exactly but I get inspiration from stories which are unconventional.

  Anil Kapoor

  Inspiration, Stories

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• You are wrong if you think Joy emanates only or principally from human relationships. God has placed it all around us. It is in everything and anything we might experience. We just have to have the courage to turn against our habitual lifestyle and engage in unconventional living.

  Jon Krakauer

  Thinking, Joy, Might

  Jon Krakauer (2011). “Into the Wild”, p.58, Pan Macmillan

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• Oh yes, well, I find myself unconventional everywhere.

  Anna Godbersen

  Wells

  Anna Godbersen (2014). “The Luxe Complete Collection: The Luxe, Rumors, Envy, Splendor”, p.65, Harper Collins

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• In Western society, and particularly in American society, imagination is stulified from infancy. The imaginative child is discouraged and upbraided. He is told that the process is mere dreaming, that it wastes time and leads nowhere. It is said to be "impractical." As the child grows and its imagination inevitably leads it to express unconventional ideas and to try new behavior, it is chided and even viciously punished for such signs of unorthodoxy.

  Philip Wylie

  Dream, Children, Ideas

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