Iris Apfel Quotes

When you're just like everybody else, you've nothing to offer other than your conformity.

Never follow the crowd.

I don't follow what everybody else does.

I don't want to be normal. I want to be something else.

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

I've never been very good at fitting into boxes.

I like being unconventional.

I love being unconventional because that's the reason I stand out.

We not trying to do what everybody else is doing.

I like being the odd one out in L.A. Because if you conform, you become something you hate. I love being the odd one out. It's not about 'Look at me! Look at me!' It's about really becoming someone else.

Conforming is not cool.

Unless you hit your television with a sledgehammer, you're not going to be able to be an individual.

As far as things I avoid, I always avoid following trends just because they're trends.

I don't want to follow the herd.

I think being different, going against the grain of society is the greatest thing in the world.

I followed my own self and individuality so much that it automatically made me a game changer or set me apart from others. I did not think it was necessary to do things the way others are doing it.

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

The worst thing I can be is the same as everybody else. I hate that.

To refrain from imitation is the best revenge.

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

The educator should do anything but advise the child to do what everybody does. He should rather rejoice when he sees in the child tendencies to deviation.

I was always a rebel in the sense that I always wanted to go my own road and do something that nobody else has done.

Everybody tries to be exactly the same. I think being an outsider is a good thing.

I think I've always wanted to be different from everybody else. I get really annoyed when I do something and everybody else does it too, or if I'm doing something that everybody else is doing.

The creative individual has the capacity to free himself from the web of social pressures in which the rest of us are caught. He is capable of questioning the assumptions that the rest of us accept.