67 Maverick Quotes
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History will dictate what my legacy is. And 'maverick' is fine, because I am. — Al Davis
Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the danger of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of "crackpot" than the stigma of conformity. — Thomas J. Watson
Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the danger of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of "crackpot" than the stigma of conformity. — Thomas John Watson, Sr.
... he who has independent ideas is hated by the mass[es]. — Shang Yang
Go against the grain, refuse to conform, take the road less traveled instead of the well-beaten path. — Mandy Hale
I started out as an opportunistic renegade. By now, I've lasted long enough to become sort of an American Original Respectable Renegade. — Wolfman Jack
Innovators are inevitably controversial. — Eva Le Gallienne
All new ideas begin in a non-conforming mind that questions some tenet of the conventional wisdom. — Hyman Rickover
I'm not a pirate. I'm an innovator. — Kim Dotcom
To me, an outlaw is a man that did things his own way, whether you liked him or not. I did things my own way. — Johnny Paycheck
What is a rebel? A man who says no. — Albert Camus
I have an independent streak. You know, it's kind of hard to tell a independent woman what to do. — Betty Ford
An innovator is one who does not know it cannot be done. — R.A. Mashelkar
A free society cherishes nonconformity. It knows from the non-conformist, from the eccentric, have come many of the great ideas. — Henry Steele Commager
No one achieves great things by following the crowd. Have a spine. Strike your own path. — Robert Kiyosaki
Short Maverick Quotes
- Maverick is a word which appeals to me more than misfit. Maverick is active, misfit is passive. — Alan Rickman
- Yes, there are directors I admire, the mavericks. Altman. There are many good directors. — Mark Rydell
- The films that I really enjoy now are films that are made by, for wont of a better word, mavericks. — Sayings
- It's a culmination of your life of surfing when you turn and paddle in at Mavericks. — Jeff Clark
- I always wanted to be an independent maverick, writing plays and putting them on myself. — Christian McKay
- The new independent spirit at Warner Music is a perfect fit for a stand-alone label like Maverick. — Guy Oseary
- I'm a maverick. I've always been a maverick. — Sonny Bono
People Writing About Maverick
| Name | Quotes | Likes |
|---|---|---|
 Al Davis |
28 | 615 |
 Thomas J. Watson |
38 | 672 |
 Mandy Hale |
51 | 1 |
 Wolfman Jack |
12 | 224 |
 Hyman Rickover |
46 | 605 |
 Kim Dotcom |
46 | 10 |
More Maverick Quotes
The kind of people I look for to fill top management spots are the eager beavers, the mavericks. These are the guys who try to do more than they're expected to do - they always reach. — Lee Iacocca
The kind of people I look for to fill top management spots are the eager beavers, the mavericks. These are the guys who try to do more than they're expected to do -- they always reach. — Lee Iacocca
Except in a few well-publicized instances (enough to lend credence to the iconography painted on the walls of the media), the rigorous practice of rugged individualism usually leads to poverty, ostracism and disgrace. The rugged individualist is too often mistaken for the misfit, the maverick, the spoilsport, the sore thumb. — Lewis H. Lapham
Dirty Harry, for example. Clint Eastwood was not a rogue cop. He was a maverick cop, but he was a good guy. — Charlton Heston
Well, American composers are the best composers. At this time in the world, we are where the energy is. We are the most diverse, the most iconoclastic, the most maverick, and the most skillful. — David Del Tredici
Living in Dallas, I root for the Mavericks and the Stars and the Cowboys, but I've always pulled for the Chicago Cubs. I enjoy watching them play. — Lee Trevino
Dallas Mavericks want me as a bald-headed 5' 8" guard with a 95" vertical. Vince Carter respect my legs, ask Shawn Kemp. — Kool Keith
In Lithuania, I am known as a poet, and they don’t care about my cinema. In Europe they don’t know my poetry; in Europe, I am a filmmaker. But here, in the United States, I am only a maverick! — Jonas Mekas
Heart is what drives us and determines our fate. That is what I need for my characters in my books: a passionate heart. I need mavericks, dissidents, adventurers, outsiders and rebels, who ask questions, bend the rules and take risks. — Isabel Allende
The most successful people are mavericks who aren't afraid to ask why, especially when everyone thinks it's obvious. — Robert Kiyosaki
I've seen that phenomenally successful people believe they can learn something from everybody. I call them 'mavericks with mentors.' Richard Branson, for instance, is a total maverick but he surrounds himself with incredibly successful, smart people and he listens to them. — Brendon Burchard
When I got to the Mavericks people were all giving me advice - change this, change that - and one thing that I didn't do was fire anybody. — Mark Cuban
some people seem to graze like sheep in the placid pastures of their faith. Some of them were born there and never broke away ... Others, after some wandering, found shelter there and are quiet and content. They look with a bland mystification at the mavericks. — Marjorie Holmes
The critical ingredient is a maverick mind. Focus on trading vehicles, strategies and time horizons that suit your personality. In a nutshell, it all comes down to: Do your own thing (independence); and do the right thing (discipline). — Gil Blake
I write movies about mavericks, about people who break rules, and I don't like movies about people who are pulverised for being mavericks. — Quentin Tarantino
It is impossible to be a maverick or a true original if you're too well behaved and don't want to break the rules. You have to think outside the box. That's what I believe. After all, what is the point of being on this earth if all you want to do is be liked by everyone and avoid trouble? — Arnold Schwarzenegger
It used to be controversial whether smoking caused lung cancer, it used to be controversial whether HIV caused AIDS. Now, there are a few mavericks who deny those things. In the case of climate change, I think the debate is going the same way in that there is a strong consensus that it is a serious matter. — Martin Rees
Our people do not want barren theories from their democracy. Maury Maverick has expressed very quaintly, but clearly, what they really want when he says: 'We Americans want to talk, pray, think as we please and eat regular'. — Robert H. Jackson
Someone once described me as a maverick and that's what I would say. I'm a maverick not by choice but by conviction. — Van Morrison
The herd instinct seems to be the strongest human emotion, one that the race is constantly breeding off as the mavericks are liquidated. Happiness is running with the crowd. — John Train
Designers need to be mavericks, because the best way to design a successful object is to pretend that either it never existed or that people will be able to have a new behavior with it. — Paola Antonelli
Taking risks, breaking the rules, and being a maverick have always been important but today they are more crucial than ever. — Gary Hamel
Managing an advertising agency isn't all beer and skittles. After fourteen years of it, I have come to the conclusion that the top man has one principle responsibility: to provide an atmosphere in which creative mavericks can do useful work. — David Ogilvy
Anyone who strays too far from the majority view or the conventional wisdom is bound to be labeled "arrogant," "a maverick," "a Wildman," "weird," or even "crazy." — John Eliot
If there is one maverick molecule in all the universe, then God is not sovereign. And if God is not sovereign, He is not God. — R. C. Sproul
The whole Gorillaz concept is one for mavericks; it's a way for people who never have a chance to work together being able to ally behind the cartoons. — Damon Albarn
Do not cringe and make yourself small if you are called the black sheep, the maverick, the lone wolf. Those with slow seeing say that a noncomformist is a blight on society. But it has been proven over the centuries, that being different means standing at the edge, that one is practically guaranteed to make an original contribution, a useful and stunning contribution to her culture. — Clarissa Pinkola Estes
Indeed, the construction of a global telegraph network was widely expected, by Briggs and Maverick among others, to result in world peace: 'It is impossible that old prejudices and hostilities should longer exist, while such an instrument has been created for the exchange of thought between all the nations of the earth.' — Tom Standage
What I need for my characters in my books [is] a passionate heart. I need mavericks, dissidents, adventurers, outsiders and rebels, who ask questions, bend the rules and take risks. — Isabel Allende
Somebody asked me what do you regret. I said, well I was offered the role of Maverick in 'Top Gun' and I turned it down. — Scott Baio
The whole world loves a maverick and the whole world wants the maverick to achieve something nobler than simple rebellion. — Kevin Patterson
If I somehow felt like having a site which strictly validates was an indication of my manhood, maybe I'd do it, but it really means very little to me. We're mavericks over here, what can we say? — Mike Davidson
They've pursued their own agendas, and they've done what they've wanted to do and not pursued traditional careers in the music industry. They've followed their own instincts, and they are in many ways maverick performers. — Neil Tennant
There is a piece of me that likes to fondly imagine my maverick and rebellious nature. But, more accurately, I like to have a nice and cosy institution that I can rub up against a little bit. — Douglas Adams
The two things that are probably tied for first are winning a championship with the Mavericks and also being able to win a gold medal - two gold medals with Team USA. — Jason Kidd
By doing what I do, by just staying, pardon me, true to myself and maintaining my maverick position, unbranded, unbought in a corporate sense, I've managed to migrate to and participate in the work of people far younger than my own children. This astounds me. It makes me feel all at once, beyond retirement age, as a player in the present tense. I'm a lucky guy. — Van Dyke Parks
He is obviously an American hero. John McCain is a vanishing breed. He is an iconoclast, he is in his own mind and often in reality a maverick. And I think, you know, you having spent the time that you spent in the Senate know that this is true. — John Heilemann
I really love James Joyce, Dubliners and other work. And I was interested in the way the dash was used in English topography - in his work particularly - and I realized there was no compulsion to use those ugly dot-dot curlicues all over the place to designate dialogue. I began to look around, and found writers who could make transitions quite clear by the language itself. I'm a bit of a maverick now. I'm always trying to push the medium. — John Edgar Wideman
Perhaps the only thing that saves science from invalid conventional wisdom that becomes effectively permanent is the presence of mavericks in every generation - people who keep challenging convention and thinking up new ideas for the sheer hell of it or from an innate contrariness. — David M. Raup
Virtually every advancement made by our species since civilization first peeked out of its nest of stone has been initiated by lone individuals, mavericks who more often than not were ignored, mocked, or viciously persecuted by society and its institutions. — Tom Robbins
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