Ludwig von Mises Quotes

The disobedient child is continuously condemned. The obedient child is, on the other hand, continuously praised. But have you heard of any obedient child having become world-famous in any dimension of creativity? Have you heard of any obedient child who has attained the Nobel prize for anything - literature, peace, science? The obedient child becomes just the common crowd. All that is added to existence is added by the disobedient.

Doing it your own way, not having to go exactly by the book to be successful.

It's important to be unconventional.

I like the fact that I like to think out-of-the-box. Thinking out-of-the-box goes along with dressing out-of-the-box and living out-of-the-box. If you want to come up with a really original design idea and you want to capture a whole new design direction, perhaps the best way to arrive at that is not by acting and thinking and doing like everybody else. That's all.

New ideas are not born in a conforming environment.

Among tech-minded kids, I think Alan Turing was a tremendous inspiration. He was a guy that was so different than the people around him. He was an outsider in his own time, but because he was an outsider is precisely why he was able to accomplish things nobody thought was possible.

Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality.

Create your own method. Don't depend slavishly on mine. Make up something that will work for you! But keep breaking traditions, I beg you.

I'm not following anybody's tracks, I'm making my own baby.

To be able to create fully, it's maybe fine that you learn the rules, but you have to forget and to rebel against those rules.

I've always been interested in people who think out of their time, and I have this passion, actually, for science. I'm just so enormously interested in how, when you think of these revolutionary ideas, other people get threatened, especially if you are different.

I like companies that try and break away from the norm.

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

I think young writers ought to be heretical.

A lot of times, the people who have the confidence to say, 'I don't know what the rules are, so I'm just going to do what I want,' are the most exciting people.

I think there's always a call for people who are bucking the norm.

Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently.

I have created a life by stepping out of the box of people's limitations. I call it zigging when others are zagging.

Society cannot contribute anything to the breeding and growing of ingenious men. A creative genius cannot be trained. There are no schools for creativeness. A genius is precisely a man who defies all schools and rules, who deviates from the traditional roads of routine and opens up new paths through land inaccessible before. A genius is always a teacher, never a pupil; he is always self-made.

I definitely didn't fit in perfectly to the school system. I was raised with such freedom of speech and thinking.

Independence of mind, enthusiasm, dedication to the field, and willingness to challenge and question and to explore new direction. There are plenty of people like that, but schools tend to discourage those characteristics.

Genius is the capacity for productive reaction against one's training.

I'm allergic to doing the obvious thing.

Being an artist is in part an act of rupture.

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