Challenging Conventions Quotes

There is no subject so old that something new cannot be said about it.

There's a reason why start-ups, especially disruptive start-ups - like Google or Amazon or Uber - are full of young people. That's because young people are not as wedded to the old fashioned ways of doing things.

Innovation means saying 'no' to a thousand things.

It's not easy to do the unpopular thing.

We have a lot of sort of received historical ways of viewing portraiture. And I suppose in some way I'm sort of questioning that by toying with the rules of the game.

I choose optimism. I hope to be a catalyst not only by providing financial resources but also by fostering a sense of possibility: encouraging top experts to collaborate across disciplines, challenge conventional thinking, and figure out ways to overcome some of the world's hardest problems.

Ignore the conventional wisdom. If everybody else is doing it one way, there’s a good chance you can find your niche by going in exactly the opposite direction.

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 think there's very little interesting in art that is not transgressive in some way. And I don't think that's a very revolutionary thing to say.

There are some things one can only achieve by a deliberate leap in the opposite direction.

Whenever one honestly defies a tradition, one becomes, in reality, the more responsible to it.

To overturn orthodoxy is no easier in science than in philosophy, religion, economics, or any of the other disciplines through which we try to comprehend the world and the society in which we live.

You cannot carry out fundamental change without a certain amount of madness.

If I have smashed the traditions, it was because I knew no traditions.

Even in a conservative society like Chennai, youngsters don't feel bound by conventions anymore.

In this age, the mere example of non-conformity, the mere refusal to bend the knee to custom, is itself a service. Precisely because the tyranny of opinion is such as to make eccentricity a reproach, it is desirable, in order to break through that tyranny, that people should be eccentric.

Some of the world's greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible.

The essence of my way of doing business is to not accept the traditional way things are done.

You gotta stick your neck out and put out a record that isn't safe... that's the Green Day way!

I am very much aware that I am considered a 'strong woman.' And I am also aware that that is only because I had a child outside wedlock.

If you are not offending people who ought to be offended, you're doing something wrong.

Since I was a child I didn't like conforming to the various rules pertaining to rituals and traditions.

You don't know what you can get away with until you try.

Just because something is traditional is no reason to do it, of course.

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