Paulina Porizkova Quotes

Human progress is furthered, not by conformity, but by aberration.

Always do something different from the others.

I'm appealing to people who want something different, but the world, on the whole, doesn't really embrace different things. Not on the whole.

Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent.

In differentiation, not uniformity, lies the path of progress.

The American people ... have a stake in con-conformity, for they know that the American genius is non-conformist.

There's not enough people being daring and different. There are a lot of followers in hip-hop.

You do not move forward by following convention. You celebrate those who are different, who are not burdened by 'normality.'

Everyone's going to like something that's different.

Every day I wake up and that’s my goal, to be on a constant quest for knowledge and do something different, being unique and being uncommon.

If you want to be different, do something different.

Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to continually be part of unanimity.

There's a large opportunity for Bon Iver to be a special thing, even from a business standpoint - just trying to do cooler things. Every band sells t-shirts and plays certain auditoriums, but I'm sick of being like everyone else, because I'm not.

I like to go against the grain, against what's out there. Every day is like a challenge.

I think there's always room for more innovation and new things.

I think that all my albums are different enough where I don't feel like I did this the last time.

I think everyone has been different once in their life.

Normal is not something to aspire to, it's something to get away from.

What is the purpose of being human and alive without doing new things?

The coolest things in life are things that you have not done before. That's the key to life: new things always.

I see the world become so uniform. Everybody has to be the same. I like people who are different.

If no one ever broke the rules, then we'd never advance.

I was always a rebel in the sense that I always wanted to go my own road and do something that nobody else has done.

I think you're always trying to challenge yourself to do new things and not repeat yourself.

I stray away from formulaic, the formatted.