John McAfee Quotes

There's a certain road in life most people walk on, because it's familiar, and they can jostle to get in front place. I prefer to take a different road that's less crowded, with many forks, where you get a wider view of life. I call it 'the road less travelled'. That's where I want to be.

I pay for what I call eccentricity and my will to evolve.

You're alone in your ideas, because you're the only one who knows what's possible.

You have to realize that people are always going to be confused or sometimes threatened by someone who has the confidence to do something different.

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.

Great artists make the roads; good teachers and good companions can point them out. But there ain't no free rides, baby. No hitchhiking. And if you want to strike out in any new direction — you go alone. With a machete in your hand and the fear of God in your heart.

A man of my acquaintance once wrote a poem called "The Road Less Traveled", describing a journey he took through the woods along a path most travelers never used. The poet found that the road less traveled was peaceful but quite lonely, and he was probably a bit nervous as he went along, because if anything happened on the road less traveled, the other travelers would be on the road more frequently traveled and so couldn't hear him as he cried for help. Sure enough, that poet is dead.

I discovered very early that it wasn't quite enough for me to imitate people.

It's only when you risk failure that you discover things. When you play it safe, you're not expressing the utmost of your human experience.

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.

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

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

People who cannot invent and reinvent themselves must be content with borrowed postures, secondhand ideas, fitting in instead of standing out.

I'm in the camp that needs to discover and take risks, sometimes it's with the promise of something special and new, sometimes it's to stay awake, either way it's much more stressful with all the uncertainty but worth the pain in the end.

Human progress has always been driven by a sense of adventure and unconventional thinking.

The best thing for an actor is to try it his way. The way they do it may not work, but it may inspire me to try something else.

The comfort zone is the great enemy to creativity; moving beyond it necessitates intuition, which in turn configures new perspectives and conquers fears.

To me, searching for perfection isn't anywhere near as interesting as trying to find your own voice.

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

Discover your own style. Don't try to repeat what has already been written - have the courage to do your own thing and don't be afraid to do something different.

You're only given a little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it.

If you don't feel you're reaching something new, then don't do it.

As a person and as a singer, I love to try something new. I like challenges.

I think the most effective coaching for youth is to encourage them to try things, to be unique and be different.

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