John Stuart Mill Quotes

The amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and moral courage it contained. That so few now dare to be eccentric marks the chief danger of the time.

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

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

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

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

I admire anyone that follows the road less travelled.

Where's your will to be weird?

My eccentricity became direction.

Be eccentric now. Don't wait for old age to wear purple.

To be great is to be misunderstood.

Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.

No one can be profoundly original who does not avoid eccentricity.

Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.

I get a kick out of not being ideal. I think it's awesome. That's entirely the point. And I think my creator is quite a character for letting that be.

I love when people have their own creative vision, when a person stands out and tries different things.

Yes, I think I am a genius, but not a rebel.

Relish being an oddball: Well-behaved, well-adjusted people are hopeless storytellers and, honestly, terribly boring.

I'm a little insane, and I'm going to be a little different. But hopefully, somewhere in there, in that creative arena, something will emerge that is new and different and unique.

I appreciate people who sway to the beat of their own tambourine, like Iris Apfel and Helena Bonham Carter.

And hip-hop is about style and finesse and being creative and different, and to do that you have to be ballsy enough to not do what everybody else does.

There is only a very thin line which separates a genius from the eccentric.

Eccentricity is not, as some would believe, a form of madness. It is often a kind of innocent pride, and the man of genius and the aristocrat are frequently regarded as eccentrics because genius and aristocrat are entirely unafraid of and uninfluenced by the opinions and vagaries of the crowd.

Towering genius disdains a beaten path ... It scorns to tread in the footsteps of any predecessor, however illustrious. It thirsts for distinction.

The greater a man's talents, the more marked his idiosyncracies. Yet in the provinces originality is considered perilously close to lunacy.