Andre Geim Quotes

The good parts are the people who don't make do. They're the interesting people. Lear doesn't make do.

I don't mind being unlikely. I'd rather that than be predictable.

In my personal life, I have always been bold, from the clothes I wear to how I talk. For me, boldness does not necessarily mean stripping. I think people have wrong notion about boldness. For me, bold is being different.

Don't ever try and be like anybody else and don't be afraid to take risks.

I love Lady Gaga. She's not afraid to take risks and be herself.

I really think that being yourself, being original, being outside the box is starting to be appealing to people.

The message is risk, really risk. Be yourself. Create.

I've always wanted to do things different, always wanted to be the person who stands out from the pack.

I've always been colorful and taken risks.

For writers: don't hold back. Be weird. Be sentimental. Be melodramatic. Take the risk of being not-cool, not-hip.

In order to be an icon, you need to be bold. How do I define boldness? Stepping outside of your comfort zone.

I like to be bold and different and to go and try things.

In California, you want to have the strangest thing, be doing the strangest thing. People admire that.

I'd rather take risks than make something that's cookie cutter.

If you do things well, do them better. Be daring, be first, be different, be just.

Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary.

I always try to be a trend setter. That's what I always tell young people when I'm giving them advice. To go with their heart and don't follow the trends.

Each single gesture of art must be daring. One must not be concerned with the side-effects.

Different is better. I get more jobs being different.

If human beings had genuine courage, they'd wear their costumes every day of the year, not just on Halloween.

Be brave enough to live life creatively. The creative place where no one else has ever been.

People get surprised by my choices. But that comes from me looking for something new.

I admire anyone that follows the road less travelled.

The most daring thing is to be yourself and to do exactly what you want to do at that point in time and not to be worried with what other people are doing or what's popular.

If you do something new, it will always look a little bit strange.