But worthwhile reading and pondering
“Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They’re not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can’t do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.” — Steve Jobs
“Every society honors its live conformists, and its dead troublemakers.” ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960
“Don't think you're on the right road just because it’s a well-beaten path.” ~Author Unknown
“Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.” ~Author Unknown
“Stubbornness does have its helpful features. You always know what you are going to be thinking tomorrow.” ~Glen Beaman
“You don't get harmony when everybody sings the same note.” ~Doug Floyd
“The reward for conformity was that everyone liked you except yourself.” ~Rita Mae Brown, Venus Envy
“A "Normal" person is the sort of person that might be designed by a committee. You know, "Each person puts in a pretty color and it comes out gray." ~Alan Sherman
“Labels are for filing. Labels are for clothing. Labels are not for people. ~Martina Navratilova”
“I shouldn't say I'm looking forward to leading a normal life, because I don't know what normal is”. ~Martina Navratilova”
“The average man is a conformist, accepting miseries and disasters with the stoicism of a cow standing in the rain.” ~Colin Wilson
“Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.” ~Dr. Seuss
“Nature made us individuals, as she did the flowers and the pebbles; but we are afraid to be peculiar, and so our society resembles a bag of marbles, or a string of mold candles. Why should we all dress after the same fashion? The frost never paints my windows twice alike.” ~Lydia Maria Child
“Do not follow where the path may lead. Go, instead, where there is no path and leave a trail.” ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
“A man must consider what a rich realm he abdicates when he becomes a conformist”. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.” Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary.” ~Albert Einstein
“In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.” ~Bertrand Russell
“To beat the establishment you have to be the establishment” – raulito
“The day people begin to pay my rent, that is the day I start worrying about what they think of me” – raulito
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