Tom Wolfe Quotes

I just keep looking for things that are interesting and keep calm as possible about it all, not worrying about being in a 'box.'

I have always lived my life outside of the box. I find it to be way more fun there.

I think being a little nuts is helpful.

As entrepreneurs, we often get pressured into hiring an industry executive. While it's good to hire people with experience, it can also be a stumbling block because they think about the business the same way everyone else does.

I want to do everything I can possibly do to step outside the box.

I've got a feeling that with the best coppers - and in fact the best people in any field of work - what sets them apart is a maverick quality. People who are not afraid to bend the rules in order to achieve the universally desired end.

I don't like to be labeled, to be anything. I've made the mistake before myself of labeling my music, but it's counter-productive.

I love challenging the status quo.

We can always find creative ways to do things.

I've always shied away from conventional wisdom, though I know the power of it.

It's important to have people who will say to you that you're really off the beaten track.

A key ingredient in innovation is the ability to challenge authority and break rules.

To me, unconventional thinking is approaching a problem and asking, 'Why not? Why can't something be done?' If someone can't give me a good reason why you can't do something, I find a way to do it.

I've always had a quirky way of looking at things. It's my coping mechanism.

I think most of us are outsiders. And I think that's good because it makes you question things.

I've always found ways to bend the rules.

I try not to do anything by formula.

Some days, I think maybe we should try and be a little more conventional, but every time I try, I fail, so I'm learning to not even entertain that thought anymore.

I love doing things that people don't expect.

I try my damnedest to quirk up anything that I'm in.

I do not want to say I'm a product designer. I've been trying all my life to not be categorized, to learn something and then to forget about it.

I feel like most creative people are total freaks.

Nobody's going to tell me how to be different, so stop asking me. Stop asking me what two-plus-two is. Everybody knows two-plus-two is five.

I'm not a freak. I'm not really crazy or anything. I don't think I'm really abnormal. It's just, like anybody else, I have interests I cultivate, and one of my interests is not getting too used to things. I've sacrificed a lot of things in my life in order to keep that sense of things being unfamiliar.

Whoso would be a man must be a non-conformist.