UNCONVENTIONALITY

Related Subjects: Custom, Fashion, Form, Manners, Morality, Society

1. There never was a great character who did not sometimes smash the routine regulations and make new ones for himself. The rule is only suitable for such as have no aspirations.—ANDREW CARNEGIE, Empire of Business
   

2. Whoso would be a man must be a non-conformist.—EMERSON, Self-Reliance
   

3. Ascend above the restrictions and conventions of the World, but not so high as to lose sight of them.—RICHARD GARNETT, De Flagello Myrteo
   

4. In the extreme instances of reaction against convention, female murderers get sheaves of offers of marriage.—BERNARD SHAW, Getting Married
   

5. If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.—THOREAU, Walden