Going Against the Flow Quotes

This isn't life in the fast lane, it's life in the oncoming traffic.

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

He who wants to get to the source must swim against the current.

Swim upstream. Go the other way. 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. But be prepared for a lot of folks to wave you down and tell you you're headed the wrong way. I guess in all my years, what I heard more often than anything was: a town of less than 50,000 population cannot support a discount store for very long.

You don't accomplish much by swimming with the mainstream. Hell, a dead fish can do that.

Don't let anyone tell you the future is already written. The best any prophet can do is to give you the most likely version of future events. It is up to us to accept the future for what it is, or change it. It is easy to go with the flow; it takes a person of singular courage to go against it.

I swim against the tide because I like to annoy.

Only dead fish swim with the stream all of the time.