The world has improved mostly because unorthodox people did unorthodox things. Not surprisingly, they had the courage and daring to think they could make a difference. — Ruby Dee
It is especially important to encourage unorthodox thinking when the situation is critical — Boris Yeltsin
Great thoughts are against all doctrines of conformity — Austin Osman Spare
A man is eminent as long as he is orthodox. When he begins to think for himself he becomes a crank. — Walter Hadwen
In an age that has thrown off all tradition, the only rebellion possible is orthodoxy. — Peter Kreeft
Go against the grain, refuse to conform, take the road less traveled instead of the well-beaten path. — Mandy Hale
The key to success is to risk thinking unconventional thoughts. Convention is the enemy of progress. — Trevor Baylis
Stop making sense. Logic is predictable. Think differently. — Paul Smith
I'm not a creature of habit. I like to find things from unexpected sources. — Norman Foster
All evolution in thought and conduct must at first appear as heresy and misconduct. — George Bernard Shaw
Free yourself from the rigid conduct of tradition and open yourself to the new forms of probability. — Hans Bender
All new ideas begin in a non-conforming mind that questions some tenet of the conventional wisdom. — Hyman Rickover
Uncommon thinkers reuse what common thinkers refuse — J. R. D. Tata
A free society cherishes nonconformity.
It knows from the non-conformist, from the eccentric,
have come many of the great ideas. — Henry Steele Commager
Do not bury our glorious orthodoxy in the treacherous pit of a spurious conservatism. — Abraham Kuyper
Short Unorthodox Quotes
I hold the ratchet unorthodox. Pernell Whittaker, I'm duckin' all sorts of shots — Vinnie Paz
Freedom, privileges, options, must constantly be exercised, even at the risk of inconvenience. — Jack Vance
Success tended to make the unorthodox acceptable — John Flanagan
There must be those who differ. If there were no unorthodox thought there would be no thought at all — Anatoli Rybakov
You owe it to yourself to find your own unorthodox way of succeeding, or sometimes, just surviving. — Michael Johnson
I'm the first one to admit, I'm a pretty unorthodox guitar player. — Lee DeWyze
Unorthodox Thinking Quotes
It is especially important to encourage unorthodox thinking when the situation is critical: At such moments every new word and fresh thought is more precious than gold. Indeed, people must not be deprived of the right to think their own thoughts. — Boris Yeltsin
Liberty sets the mind free, fosters independence and unorthodox thinking and ideas. But it does not offer instant prosperity or happiness and wealth to everyone. — Boris Yeltsin
I'm an unorthodox type of guy, a funny guy - at least I think I'm funny. And one of the things I like to do is come up with nicknames for myself. — Shaquille O'Neal
The great and invigorating influences in American life have been the unorthodox: the people who challenge an existing institution of way of life, or say and so things that make people think. — William O. Douglas
We've got to be entrepreneurial; we've got to be innovative, and we've got to figure out ways of getting things done that people might think are very unorthodox. — Cory Booker
This guy is totally unorthodox. Maybe he`s flipping coins or playing three-card Monty to see who he wants to pick. Donald Trump is so unorthodox that I think it`s almost impossible to have any reasonable prediction about who he`s going to pick for the Vice-President. — Howard Dean
I think one of the lessons of the Depression - and this is something that Franklin Roosevelt demonstrated - was that when orthodoxy fails, then you need to try new things. And he was very willing to try unorthodox approaches when the orthodox approach had shown that it was not adequate. — Ben Bernanke
On 'Morning Joe' I can say what I think, be my sometimes unorthodox self, have fun, yet be serious as well. — Sayings
Unconventional Quotes
We just have to have the courage to turn against our habitual lifestyle and engage in unconventional living. — Christopher McCandless
Young people get the foolish idea that what is new for them must be new for everybody else too. No matter how unconventional they get, they're just repeating what others before them have done. — Yukio Mishima
No one comes to New York and says 'We've got to check out Times Square and Spa Castle!' — Joe Gatto
A keen sense of humor helps us to overlook the unbecoming, understand the unconventional, tolerated the unpleasant, overcome the unexpected, and outlast the unbearable. — Billy Graham
I don’t really want to become normal, average, standard. I want merely to gain in strength, in the courage to live out my life more fully, enjoy more, experience more. I want to develop even more original and more unconventional traits — Anais Nin
Establishing and maintaining an unconventional investment profile requires acceptance of uncomfortably idiosyncratic portfolios which frequently appear downright imprudent in the eyes of conventional wisdom. — Howard Marks
Empowered women who reach tough or unconventional positions make CHOICES not sacrifices — Kiran Bedi
Worldly wisdom teaches that it is better for reputation to fail conventionally than to succeed unconventionally. — John Maynard Keynes
I want to make music and songs about things that real musicians and artists aren't able to make songs about - you wouldn't hear Justin Bieber making a song about homework, or, like, you wouldn't see someone make a song with their parents on the track. — Jake Paul
I do not believe that the men who served in uniform in Vietnam have been given the credit they deserve. It was a difficult war against an unorthodox enemy. — William Westmoreland
No one understood better than Stalin that the true object of propaganda is neither to convince nor even to persuade, but to produce a uniform pattern of public utterance in which the first trace of unorthodox thought immediately reveals itself as a jarring dissonance. — Alan Bullock
Part of their problem was Percy. He fought like a demon, whirling through the defender's ranks in a completely unorthodox style, rolling under their feet, slashing with his sword instead of stabbing like a Roman would, whacking campers with the flat of his blade, and generally causing mass panic. — Rick Riordan
Art and life really are the same, and both can only be about a spiritual journey, a path towards a re-union with a supreme creator, with god, with the divine; and this is true no matter how unlikely, how strange, how unorthodox, one's particular life path might appear to one's self or others at any given moment. — Genesis P-Orridge
The Church has little idea how unorthodox it is at any given moment. If a church can't yet be perfectly orthodox, it can, with the Holy Spirit's help and by the grace of God, be perpetually reformable. — Brian D. McLaren
It is the gifted, unorthodox individual, in the laboratory, or the study, or the walk by the river at twilight, who has always brought to us, and must continue to bring to us, all the basic resources by which we live. — Caryl Parker Haskins
The USA is so enormous, and so numerous are its schools, colleges and religious seminaries, many devoted to special religious beliefs ranging from the unorthodox to the dotty, that we can hardly wonder at its yielding a more bounteous harvest of gobbledygook than the rest of the world put together. — Peter Medawar
The biggest lesson I learned from my dad is to support children even if they're doing something that is unorthodox. — Tony Hawk
My work is so unorthodox that from one panel to the next, the drawings are completely different... totally opposed to the way of working in something like animation, where every drawing has to look like the one before. — Sergio Aragones
The great argument used now against any theological proposition is not, that it is untrue, or unthinkable, or unedifying, or unscriptural, or unorthodox, but simply, that the modern mind cannot accept it. — Ronald Knox
Only by zealously guarding the rights of the most humble, the most unorthodox, and the most despised among us can freedom flourish and endure in our land. — Frank Murphy
Do you know that all great spurts in...progress came just after some unorthodox ideas or exotic impressions had penetrated into a closed system? — Anatol Rapoport
Because of the nature of my life, it's difficult for people to recognize that a person can live a full life, and maybe an unorthodox life, and still be on the side of the angels. — Hugh Hefner
Southern culture has fostered a type of imagination that has been influenced by Christianity of a not too unorthodox kind and by a strong devotion to the Bible, which has kept our minds attached to the concrete and the living symbol. — Flannery O'Connor
All ideas having even the slightest redeeming social importance - unorthodox ideas, controversial ideas, even ideas hateful to the prevailing climate of opinion, have the full protection of the guarantees [of the First Amendment]. — William J. Brennan
I am not the same kind of Mormon girl I was when I was seven, eight, or eighteen years old. I am not an orthodox Mormon woman like my mother. I am an unorthodox Mormon woman with a fierce and hungry faith. — Joanna Brooks
I'm hoping that "Nothin' On You", "Billionaire" and "Just The Way You Are" - songs that I produced... I hope that it's a warning for people. I hope it lets them know that I'm a little unorthodox when it comes to genres and styles. — Bruno Mars
I also encourage my students to read literary criticism that is deeply personal yet formally inventive and intellectually expansive... books that offer unorthodox ways of doing double duty as literary criticism and as love letters to the power of literature per se. — Rob Nixon
I'm always reading many books at a time. It might be quite unorthodox, but what I do is, since I'm always surrounded with books, I'll read a page of physics, and then I'll read a chapter of a novel that I really love, and then I'll say, "Oh well, what does that mixture do in my head?" I adore reference books. I love encyclopedias. I also like just going back to original texts, because a lot of these self-help books today. — Daphne Guinness
I would consider the principal threats to start with Russia. And it would certainly include any nations that are looking to intimidate nations around their periphery, regional nations nearby them, whether it be with weapons of mass destruction or I would call it unusual, unorthodox means of intimidating them. — James Mattis
Quite apart from the Church's financial self-interest in getting me out of the way, Baltimore is an overwhelmingly Catholic city and like most good Christians, they felt we ought to be punished for our unorthodox views. — Madalyn Murray O'Hair
From where I sit, it's a superb cabinet [for Donald Trump] so far. A lot of these choices could have been made by Ted Cruz. So you're going to have this shotgun marriage between a very orthodox Republican cabinet and a very unorthodox. — Rich Lowry
My family was very unorthodox. My mother was very eccentric and amazing. She always treated us like adults. — Laura Prepon
It is the function of the Church to oppose all original experience, because this can only be unorthodox. — Carl Jung
It surprises me constantly that my sometimes-unorthodox approach has such a large following, but I'm very grateful to my readers for allowing me to continue writing 10 or 12 hours a day. — Grant Morrison
A doctor's authority in America often exceeds his or her knowledge. Whole bodies of knowledge in healing are ignored because they are unorthodox and non-medical. A doctor's education seems exhaustive, yet MDs study so much about drugs and surgery - and so little about nutrition, fasting, herbal remedies, spinal manipulation, massage, vitamin and mineral therapy, homeopathy, and more - that we realize their qualifications are incomplete. — Andrew Saul
I watch YouTube and other peers of mine. There's a lot of things I can't do and also I'm very unorthodox, I want to work on my mechanics and technique. — Eric Hernandez
The Byzantines hammered away at their hard and orthodox symbols, because they could not be in a mood to believe that men could take a hint. The moderns drag out into lengths and reels of extravagance their new orthodoxy of being unorthodox, because they also cannot give a hint -- or take a hint. Yet all perfect and well-poised art is really a hint. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
I had an unorthodox high-school experience; I shifted around to different schools. When I got to college and met Larry Sacharow, who ran the theatre department [at Fordham University in NYC], he was the first person to say ‘I believe in you.’ At that point, I just needed someone to say ‘I see you, I get you, let’s go.’ It’s an amazing thing to borrow someone else’s confidence in you; it can change your life. — Taylor Schilling
By the standards of honest, if unorthodox, accounting, government workers don't pay taxes, but are paid out of taxes. In other words, they pay taxes out of money confiscated from taxpayers, who, in turn, pay taxes twice: on their own income and on the income of members of the bureaucracy. At the very least, this should disqualify state workers from voting. — Ilana Mercer
Some pious men may find this truth unorthodox and bitter: But Nature, Chance, and Time ensure survival of the fitter! — Robert Charles Wilson
If cancer specialists were to admit publicly that chemotherapy is of limited usefulness and is often dangerous, the public might demand a radical change in direction-possibly toward unorthodox and nontoxic methods, and toward cancer prevention. ...The use of chemotherapy is even advocated by those members of the establishment who realize how ineffective and dangerous it can be. — Ralph W. Moss
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