Tim Ferriss Quotes

You do not move forward by following convention. You celebrate those who are different, who are not burdened by 'normality.'

One does not succeed by sticking to convention.

I never imagined myself doing a one-man show. If I'm going to do one, I'd rather do one that breaks all the rules.

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.

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

All creative people want to do the unexpected.

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

Since I was in my early twenties, at ABC, I was always only interested in things that were not already being done.

You need a little bit of insanity to do great things.

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.

When you create something new, you're breaking tradition - which is an act of defiance.

I guess I much prefer the path of the contrarian: the guy who goes against the grain a bit. The careers of the people who I admire deeply - like the Coen brothers and Soderbergh - don't repeat themselves, and they make radically different films at times, and I think that's wonderful.

Good sense travels on the well-worn paths; genius, never. And that is why the crowd, not altogether without reason, is so ready to treat great men as lunatics.

I don't like playing standards. I like to do my own cutting edge work.

Originality is dangerous.

If you define eccentricity as creativity, then yes, creativity is eccentricity.

In any field, find the strangest thing and then explore it.

I think that, to some degree, being irreverent is the only reason I continue to be successful.

It's important to be unconventional.

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

What's the fun in doing conventional things? I would rather be known as someone who is unconventional. I like being unconventional. I like doing things which are different. That's what I like... It gives me a boost as an actor.

I have always been a person who does things differently.

I feel that one thing that a businessman can learn is do not follow a path that has already been successful. You will never be a path-breaker then.

I like to try and be outside of the box or do things that other people aren't doing.