John Stuart Mill Quotes

I'd never just want to do what everybody else did. I'd be contributing to the sameness of everything.

If you follow the same path as everyone else you're just going to be like everyone else.

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.

I like to go against the grain, against what's out there. Every day is like a challenge.

People who follow all the rules and chase every trend tend to get forgotten - they look great, but they're not as memorable.

I feel like being into the beat of your own drum has become too prominent in the culture.

Conventional is not for me. I like things that are uniquely Flo. I like being different.

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.

Why do you have to be a nonconformist like everybody else?

I like to do something different that people don't expect. That's what I've always been about, in everything I do.

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.

Society has now fairly got the better of individuality; and the danger which threatens human nature is not the excess, but the deficiency, of personal impulses and preferences.

I named my album 'So Uncool' because it defies the ordinary: you're different from everyone else. It's like, being uncool makes you cool because you're different!

There are those whose own vulgar normality is so apparent and stultifying that they strive to escape it. They affect flamboyant behaviour and claim originality according to the fashionable eccentricities of their time. They claim brains or talent or indifference to mores in desperate attempts to deny their own mediocrity.

I tried to be different; I didn't want to be like everybody else.

I just understand that I'm supposed to be one of those people that disrupts the flavor a little bit instead of being part of the same sound as everyone else.

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

I have always been a person who does things differently.

I've never tried to be accepted. When everyone is doing one thing, I've always had the instinct to go the other way. I don't understand how an individual with their own mind, their own values, and their own beliefs can be so willing to just follow what everybody else is doing. How can you make history doing what everybody else is doing?

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'd rather sink trying to be different, than stay afloat like everyone else.

Imposing an alleged uniform general method upon everybody breeds mediocrity in all but the very exceptional. And measuring originality by deviation from the mass breeds eccentricity in them.

The hardest struggle of all is to be something different from what the average man is.

Always do something different from the others.

There is a level of cowardice lower than that of the conformist: the fashionable non-conformist.