Soren Kierkegaard Quotes

By not caring too much about what people think, I'm able to think for myself and propagate ideas which are very often unpopular. And I succeed with them because, again, I don't care too much what other people think.

Our people should feel free to express diverse views, pursue unconventional ideas or simply be different.

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

I always do things that are not the flavour of the season. And that's why people like me.

I never liked to copy things that are out there. I always like to come up with something new, something different.

A 'new thinker', when studied closely, is merely a man who does not know what other people have thought.

All art is based on nonconformity ... Without nonconformity we would have had no Bill of Rights or Magna Carta, no public education system, no nation upon this continent, no continent, no science at all, no philosophy, and considerably fewer religions.

Just as no great painting has ever been created by a committee, no great vision has ever emerged from the herd.

It is not a band. It is an idea.

It is important to foster individuality, for only the individual can produce the new ideas.

...one of the traits of genius is not to drag its thought through the rut worn by vulgar minds.

That’s the key to new and good ideas; they come from having a very broad and multidisciplinary range of interests.

New ideas are not born in a conforming environment.

If you don't have an idea, all you have is style.

My guess is that well over eighty per cent. of the human race goes through life without having a single original thought.

Creativity, which is the expression of our originality, helps us stay mindful that what we bring to the world is completely original and cannot be compared.

Never follow the crowd. Go where it's empty.

Young people don't even consider that it's a good idea to be out on the fringe, which is where good ideas come from.

People say 'follow in the footsteps' but I always find that a strange expression because what you want to do is forge your own path, so to speak.

Don't borrow someone else's plan. Develop your own philosophy and it will lead you to unique places.

The whole drift of our law is toward the absolute prohibition of all ideas that diverge in the slightest form from the accepted platitudes, and behind that drift of law there is a far more potent force of growing custom, and under that custom there is a natural philosophy which erects conformity into the noblest of virtues and the free functioning of personality into a capital crime against society.

The great challenge which faces us is to assure that, in our society of big-ness, we do not strangle the voice of creativity, that the rules of the game do not come to overshadow its purpose, that the grand orchestration of society leaves ample room for the man who marches to the music of another drummer.

he who should inspire and lead his race must be defended from travelling with the souls of other men, from living, breathing, reading, and writing in the daily, time-worn yoke of their opinions.

I always wanna be able to fight, I always wanna be able to go left when they tell me to go right, not because I'm being hard-headed, it's just me taking a creative stance. I have no problem with constructive criticism, but, at the same time, I have a problem with doin' the same thing that everybody's doin'. And that's the way I've found a way to survive in the music game.

Do the things that make perfect sense to you, [and] don't be afraid to shout it from the mountain tops just because it's outside the box or against the grain in your industry. More often than not, you're probably going to be right.