Varun Sharma Quotes

I always wanted to go against hat grain because it was too restricting.

I think if I'm controversial it's not because I set out to be. It's because I've never felt comfortable being part of someone else's mainstream community.

Never forget that only dead fish swim with the stream.

Only dead fish go with the flow.

Familiarity is all the rage. And if you're doing something that doesn't have its rhythms preset, you know, everybody's a little bit uncomfortable.

I always like to do something different, something unusual, stray off the path a bit.

I know some people like to follow the tradition, and that's who they are. That's not me.

We live in world that wants to burnish the rough edges and straighten the crooked line, but conformity doesn't beget greatness.

The one lesson I've learned from technology and food is the only time you know you're doing the wrong thing is when you're doing what everyone else is doing.

I get a kick out of being an outsider constantly. It allows me to be creative.

If you're trying to do something different, you can't ask someone to help, because they'll want to make it not different.

Since I know how crazy this business is, I do the opposite of what I see other people doing.

You know that I'm always a proponent of doing things differently.

If you are doing what everyone else is doing, there is probably not an opportunity there.

I've never liked categories; I've never liked boxes; I've always tried to be unconventional as much as I possibly could.

I definitely like taking the dark horse approach and picking people you should not be getting behind, and you figure out a way to get behind them.

I don't follow what everybody else does.

Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.

Yeah, but if you're not doing what everyone else is doing then you're going to be misunderstood. People are going to wonder why you're trying to be different; it's just a natural instinct.

The worst advice I ever received from my dad was to play by the book. My old man used to flip out whenever I would try to branch out and do something different. Although he didn't do it on purpose, he really held me back in the beginning.

You want to stand out and be unique and do something different. I always try to zig when they zag - I guess it's a football term, but it applies to a lot of different areas of life.

I don't live by a lot of society's rules; I can't pattern myself after the herd.

Either you repeat the same conventional doctrines everybody is saying, or else you say something true, and it will sound like it's from Neptune.

I like being unconventional.

I am a contrarian.