Top 100 Quotes About Unconventional
#1. Because I've lived a risky and unconventional life, I don't often struggle for subjects to write about.
Poe Ballantine
#2. To me, unconventional thinking is approaching a problem and asking, 'Why not? Why can't something be done?' If someone can't give me a good reason why you can't do something, I find a way to do it.
Eli Broad
#3. 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
#4. Oh yes, well, I find myself unconventional everywhere.
Anna Godbersen
#5. My older brother, Jake, and I had a bohemian childhood. My parents are deeply unconventional people from the beatnik generation. They weren't married, and I thought that was normal. We called them by their first names.
Rachel Kushner
#6. To avoid surprises later, spend enough time to know people initially. Don't just ask the obvious. Go the extra mile... Be creative and unconventional...
Assegid Habtewold
#7. Audacity is an insolent form of boldness, especially when imprudent or unconventional. It implies a degree of impudence, but also fearlessness and intrepid daring.
Mike Cernovich
#9. The Internet is a great place to find unconventional comedy that you can't find anywhere else.
Andy Dick
#10. I've always seen 'Y' as an unconventional romance between a boy and his protector. It was always about the last boy on Earth becoming the last man on Earth, and the women who made that possible.
Brian K. Vaughan
#11. Our film industry as well as the audiences are now open to unconventional pairings and subjects, which has aided my journey greatly.
Boman Irani
#12. I'm always trying to reach a transcendent point, a romantic point, but reach it in a really unconventional way, a really profane way. To get to that romantic, touching, heartbreaking place, but through a lot of acts of profanity.
Chuck Palahniuk
#13. I found unconventional and it exactly explains your upbringing." Millie's lips curved into a grin. "Unconstitutional doesn't explain you at all, unless you've been participating in something that goes against our country's constitution.
Jen Turano
#14. A 'normal person' is what is left after society has squeezed out all unconventional opinions and aspirations out of a human being.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
#15. It is only the most elite of elite musicians whose unconventional approach becomes convention.
Steve Vai
#16. Creative people like to think in unconventional ways, dislike rules, are easily bored, are independent, like to experiment, and enjoy being their own bosses. Basically the same traits found in most criminals and sociopaths
Duncan Long
#17. There are occasions when girls like Bathsheba will put up with a great deal of unconventional behavior. When they want to be praised, which is often; when they want to be mastered, which is sometimes; and when they want no nonsense, which is seldom.
Thomas Hardy
#18. In short order, the unconventional became the established convention; the perverse was embraced as normal; the unspeakable was broadcast everywhere; the outrageous was met with enthusiastic applause.
Roger Kimball
#19. The trapeze was my first love. To me, it's normal. It's all I've ever known. But when I see other people's upbringings, I think, 'Hmm ... mine was rather unconventional. Quite different!'
Neon Hitch
#21. Be creative. Use unconventional thinking. And have the guts to carry it out.
Lee Iacocca
#22. When the temperamental and unconventional people are not mere plagiarists of dead eccentrics, they lack, in almost every case, thehistoric sense.
Katharine Fullerton Gerould
#23. Our people should feel free to express diverse views, pursue unconventional ideas or simply be different.
Lee Hsien Loong
#24. I'm drawn to the unconventional because I've been drawn unconventionally. I believe that I'm supposed to topple over these false images of what's idealistically beautiful. Because, of course, these intangible qualities are very attractive to women. Sincerity. Sense of humor. Success.
CeeLo Green
#25. The BBC knew I was successful from early on, but they weren't sure why, and they still aren't sure. What I do has been unconventional from the beginning, so they've never been sure. It just works. It just does.
Terry Wogan
#26. L.A is a huge place, literally and metaphorically. Its beauty and horror. Its unconventional history. Its draw and allure. Its diversity and segregation.
James Frey
#27. If you can't be unconventional, be obtuse. Be deliberately obtuse, because there are 5 billion people out there thinking in train tracks, and thinking what they have been taught to think.
James Dyson
#28. My mom always knew I was going to be an actor because I was a ham from the very beginning, so she would push me toward it, which is really unconventional for Indian families to do.
Aarti Mann
#29. And he still thinks that Obama was never the president because he's not a US citizen! He's more than just a little bit out there." "He's unconventional." "He played golf with Donald Trump!
Nick Wilgus
#30. The true mark of a leader is the willingness to stick with a bold course of action - an unconventional business strategy, a unique product-development roadmap, a controversial marketing campaign - even as the rest of the world wonders why you're not marching in step with the status quo.
Bill Taylor
#31. Because I am much like Reagan and Margaret Thatcher, I'm such an unconventional political figure that you really need to design a unique campaign that fits the way I operate.
Newt Gingrich
#32. Many of us find comfort and interest in old, familiar things, while others seek inspiration or stimulation in the blatantly new or unconventional." Charity Davis-Woodard
Kevin A. Hluch
#33. My mum is a bit unconventional; she's outdoorsy and has more of an emotional intelligence, whereas my dad is pragmatic; he's a businessman.
Tamsin Egerton
#34. I don't make unconventional stories; I don't make non-linear stories. I like linear storytelling a lot.
Steven Spielberg
#35. Because I am untrained I approach my designs in an unconstrained way and I feel a freedom in this. It is unconventional but it means outcomes are not limited by traditional boundaries.
Trelise Cooper
#36. I came to feel an artist might use anything - a dot, a line, the most conventional or unconventional symbol - t say what he wanted to say.
Marcel Duchamp
#37. The Islamic world is obsessed with the notion of strong leaders. This is a mistake. We don't need powerful leaders, but rather unconventional, progressive thinkers with the courage to open our minds.
Tariq Ramadan
#38. The Wellness Home reflects an unconventional way in order to promote health and wellness in a commercial establishment.
Alex Bridge
#39. To WOW, you must differentiate yourself, which means do something a little unconventional and innovative. You must do something that's above and beyond what's expected. And whatever you do must have an emotional impact on the receiver.
Tony Hsieh
#40. After years of amassing information about Unconventional Flying Objects (UFOs) I have come to the conclusion that we are dealing with a very complex mystery on an international scale.
John T. Schuessler
#41. Political reform need not go hand in hand with economic liberalization.. I hold unconventional views about this.. I do not believe if you are a libertarian, full of diverse opinions, full of competing ideas in the market place, full of sound and fury, therefore you will succeed.
Lee Kuan Yew
#42. Abstract art is uniquely modern. It is a fundamentally romantic response to modern life - rebellious, individualistic, unconventional, sensitive, irritable.
Robert Motherwell
#43. I like the way Wiseman builds a story in an unconventional way.
Jim McKay
#45. I had a quite unconventional childhood, in the sense that I traveled a lot and I went to 10 or 11 schools. I was completely confused academically, but wherever I went, I could paint. I painted an inordinate amount.
Ridley Scott
#46. One may have a right to be unconventional and even eccentric, so long as one is fully competent and a decent person; but one's ideal as a professor should be to conduct oneself as an admirable human being: just, kind, tolerant, competent, committed, and good-humored.
Robert Audi
#47. I've never liked categories; I've never liked boxes; I've always tried to be unconventional as much as I possibly could.
Gary Dourdan
#48. It's challenging and interesting for me to work on projects that are unique and unconventional. I'm so bored with seeing the same recycled material.
Nina Dobrev
#49. ... if you have someone who wants to heal, sometime they will respond to the unconventional. Their minds are more open to healing, so their bodies become more willing too. I believe that medication, while a wonderful thing, has its limits. That there are answers to be found in the unconventional.
Daisy Whitney
#50. Public opinion is to an unconventional idea ... what abortion is to sperm.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
#51. The extreme paradox arose that one of the most passionate, expressive, humorous and unconventional women who ever lived was paraded before the public as a stiff, pompous little person, the 'figurehead' to an all-male imperial enterprise. This
A. N. Wilson
#52. Because I was moved by the sorry spectacle of a conventional young man thinking that he had become radically unconventional.
Vera Caspary
#53. People have always thought of me as someone who's very classical,when in fact I've led a rather unconventional life.
Catherine Deneuve
#54. Don't be afraid to do something unconventional, to take a chance, to risk something.
Tom Brokaw
#55. A candidate could easily commit political suicide if he were to come up with an unconventional thought during a presidential tour.
E.B. White
#56. 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
#57. We shouldn't have politicians micromanaging this war because it is complex and unconventional.
Bill Shuster
#58. But it is not conscious strategy to go for unconventional roles.
Anil Kapoor
#59. I like to play these unconventional characters, yes. They're close to the way I feel as a human being.
Ken Stott
#60. The key to success is to risk thinking unconventional thoughts. Convention is the enemy of progress.
Trevor Baylis
#62. And I love being with you. Your giggle, your silly grin, how you apply you personality in paste. The ambitions that I share. The way of thinking that I understand. The unconventional person, you are. You are the odd-shaped jigsaw puzzle that I'm looking to fit. And you completed me
Raditya Dika
#63. A wise board accumulates rational wisdom, embraces unconventional wisdom and sharpens system wisdom.
Pearl Zhu
#64. If we're going to have an unconventional budget, we probably need an unconventional process to get there.
Anthony Foxx
#65. From being a female sunk below reproach Sophy became rapidly an unconventional girl whose unaffected manners were refreshing in an age of simpers and high flights.
Georgette Heyer
#66. Everyone needs to take control of his or her own life by making sense of it. It doesn't matter how conventional or unconventional that process is.
Mariel Hemingway
#67. I believe in God, but in my own unconventional way. We're not affiliated with any organisation, and I have no religious education of any kind, but I definitely have my own kind of ideas about it.
Sarah Jessica Parker
#68. I think of myself as unconventional, I guess. I maybe always had a problem with authority, like a stubbornness about what's expected - despite wanting to get some recognition through performing - but also not always wanting to do the expected thing.
Kim Gordon
#69. How fortunate that it was an 'unconventional' party, where formalities are ruled out! On this basis Aziz found the English ladies easy to talk to, he treated them like men. Beauty would have troubled him, but Mrs Moore was so old and Miss Quested so plain that he was spared this anxiety.
E. M. Forster
#70. Thrift shopping is really just an extension of me being that same kid and going into a place that's completely unconventional that has really endless possibilities in terms of outfits that you can put together and really just expressing yourself.
Macklemore
#71. Pollock was well known, certainly, but for all the wrong reasons. He was known as much for being wild and unconventional in his working methods as for being a great artist.
Kenneth Noland
#72. Those days of every child having a mummy and daddy who lived at home - Daddy went to work, and Mummy stayed at home and took care of everyone - those days have almost gone, and it's so much more unconventional now.
Kate Winslet
#73. We've got to be proactive. It's my job to look for unconventional situations that achieve what my clients want.
Patrick Whitesell
#74. It is the long-term investor ... who will in practice come in for the most criticism ... For it is the essence of his behavior that he should be eccentric, unconventional, and rash in the eyes of average opinion
John Maynard Keynes
#75. Holding unconventional opinions makes people feel they have strong characters.
Mason Cooley
#76. I'm not sad about any of my life. It's so unconventional. It doesn't look anything like I thought it would.
Edie Falco
#77. Achieving conventional goals, such as profits and joy, with unconventional methods, such as investing energy instead of money.
Jay Conrad Levinson
#78. Describing a Navy SEAL-
I have no idea what 'unconventional warfare' really means, but i'm pretty sure i was on my way to meet a man who could kill me in 7 different ways with a flip-flop.
Dave Gorman
#79. Conservatism and respectability have their values, certainly; but has not the unconventional its values also?
Thomas Bailey Aldrich
#80. Follow your instincts. Do the kind of writing you love to do and do best. 'Stiff' was an oddball book - I mean, a funny book about cadavers? - and I worried that it would be too unconventional. In the end, that's what has made it a success, I think.
Mary Roach
#81. Jeanne Moreau, Lauren Bacall, they had this unconventional beauty, this amazing charisma.
Josephine De La Baume
#82. Unconventional," said Jenkins. "What is conventional?" asked Andrew. "Living in a dream? Living for a memory? you must be weary of it." "Not
Clifford D. Simak
#83. I can connect with whoever I want to connect with in the world. And I can also write my own script. I don't have to follow rules. I can sort of just be unconventional.
Lynn Shelton
#84. I guess I had what you could call an unconventional upbringing.
Joaquin Phoenix
#85. If the woman, however injured, however irreproachable, has appearances in the least degree against her, has exposed herself by any unconventional action to - to offensive insinuations - ' She
Edith Wharton
#86. Not exactly but I get inspiration from stories which are unconventional.
Anil Kapoor
#87. He was blessed with an unconventional mind, which overcame his conventional middle-class upbringing.
Michael Lewis
#88. Empowered women who reach tough or unconventional positions make CHOICES not sacrifices
Kiran Bedi
#89. However you have lived, Sue, I believe you are as innocent as you are unconventional!
Thomas Hardy
#90. People will always try to stop you from doing the right thing if it is unconventional.
Warren Buffett
#91. The danger lies in unconventional experiments signaling for a general license to do as they please, and pass off sloppy workmanship as creative intention.
Helmut Gernsheim
#92. I like doing things in a very minimal, unconventional way as a personal way of saying, 'Look, I made a career out of carefully and craftfully, though unconventionally, making records on laptops and blown speakers.'
Skrillex
#93. You are wrong if you think Joy emanates only or principally from human relationships. God has placed it all around us. It is in everything and anything we might experience. We just have to have the courage to turn against our habitual lifestyle and engage in unconventional living.
Jon Krakauer
#94. I must apologize for calling so late," said he, "and I must further beg you to be so unconventional as to allow me to leave your house presently by scrambling over your back garden wall.
Arthur Conan Doyle
#95. Innovators with global thinking find more viewing spots that the rest; therefore, they can solve problems in unconventional ways.
Pearl Zhu
#96. 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
#97. You have major labels that are willing to take unconventional approaches because the old model is crumbling in front of us.
Macklemore
#98. Choosing an unconventional career path - I am not a traditional Egyptologist by any means. I found what I love, and I have stuck with it.
Sarah Parcak
#99. Few things in this world are more predictable than the reaction of conventional minds to unconventional ideas.
John Anthony West
