Unconventional Quotes

“If you truly want to be respected by people you love, you must prove to them that you can survive without them.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, The Infinity Sign

“Oh yes, well, I find myself unconventional everywhere.”
― Anna Godbersen

“The material world is all feminine. The feminine engergy makes the non-manifest, manifest. So even men (are of the feminine energy). We have to relinquish our ideas of gender in the conventional sense. This has nothing to do with gender, it has to do with energy. So feminine energy is what creates and allows anything which is non-manifest, like an idea, to come into form, into being, to be born. All that we experience in the world around us, absolutely everything (is feminine energy). The only way that anything exists is through the feminine force.”
― Zeena Schreck

“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, Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Novels and Stories, Volume I

“He was blessed with an unconventional mind, which overcame his conventional middle-class upbringing.”
― Michael M. Lewis, Liar's Poker: Rising Through the Wreckage on Wall Street

“Adultery is a most conventional way to rise above the conventional.”
― Valdimir Nabokov

“I'm the first to admit that I don't write right. Now, relax and enjoy the show! The sideshow, that is.”
― Lori R. Lopez

“Creative people, especially those who are just starting out, feel that they have to conform and be a mass-produced product in order to be noticed. The truth of the matter is that genuineness and unconventionality is often what helps make a mark on the world.”
― Veronika Carnaby

“...she considered herself unconventional...”
― Anna Godbersen, Rumors

“You can say whatever you like to me. I make no moral judgments."
Cassandra was slow to reply, momentarily distracted by his eyes. They were blue with dapples of brilliant green around the pupils, but one eye had far more green than the other.
"Everyone makes judgments," she said in response to his statement.
"I don't. My sense of rights and wrong is different from most people's. You could say I'm a moral nihilist."
"What's that?"
"Someone who believes nothing is innately right or wrong."
"Oh, that's dreadful," she exclaimed.
"I know," he said, looking apologetic.
Perhaps some gently bred young women would have been shocked, but Cassandra was accustomed to unconventional people. She'd grown up with Pandora, whose twisty-turny, hippy-hoppity brain had enlivened an unbearably secluded life. In fact, Mr. Severin possessed a kind of contained energy that reminded her a little of Pandora. One could see it in the eyes, the quicksilver workings of a mind that ran faster than those of other people.”
― Lisa Kleypas, Chasing Cassandra

“There are eternal bonds which are made in registry offices and in churches, there are eternal bonds which are made in other and stranger and more terrible ways.”
― Iris Murdoch, The Nice and the Good

“His academic failure forced him to develop unconventionally, free of the social straightjacket that might have constrained his progress to well-worn paths.”
― Robert Kanigel, The Man Who Knew Infinity: A Life of the Genius Ramanujan

“You can say whatever you like to me. I make no moral judgments."
Cassandra was slow to reply, momentarily distracted by his eyes. They were blue with dapples of brilliant green around the pupils, but one eye had far more green than the other.
"Everyone makes judgments," she said in response to his statement.
"I don't. My sense of right and wrong is different from most people's. You could say I'm a moral nihilist."
"What's that?"
"Someone who believes nothing is innately right or wrong."
"Oh, that's dreadful," she exclaimed.
"I know," he said, looking apologetic.
Perhaps some gently bred young women would have been shocked, but Cassandra was accustomed to unconventional people. She'd grown up with Pandora, whose twisty-turny, hippy-hoppity brain had enlivened an unbearably secluded life. In fact, Mr. Severin possessed a kind of contained energy that reminded her a little of Pandora. One could see it in the eyes, the quicksilver workings of a mind that ran faster than those of other people.”
― Lisa Kleypas, Chasing Cassandra

“Sometimes, if only in your mind and regardless of what others think, you must live beyond the fence and know your shit is way too sick to ever be quarantined.”
― Curtis Tyrone Jones

“We cannot shape the world according to the delights society decrees appropriate for us; we must be unconventional in our joys and find them wherever we can.”
― Rose Tremain, Islands of Mercy

“It is good they can still joke and laugh. It offers nothing to the storyteller. But in the face of the inevitable, defiant joy is effort and reward both. It is how to survive, and it is why.”
― Joshua Phillip Johnson

“Whether Sapiens are to blame or not, no sooner had they arrived at a new location than the native population became extinct.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

“High academic achievers were 2.3 times as likely to be firstborn as lastborn. Rebels were twice as likely to be lastborn as firstborn. And when asked to write about the few most rebellious or unconventional things they had ever done in their lives, laterborns had longer responses and described more unconventional behaviors. Hundreds of studies point to the same conclusion: although firstborns tend to be more dominant, conscientious, and ambitious, laterborns are more open to taking risks and embracing original ideas. Firstborns tend to defend the status quo; laterborns are inclined to challenge it.”
― Adam Grant, Originals: How Non-Conformists Move the World

“Even as an unconventional and eccentric being, your true people will love you in your most authentic form.”
― Robin S. Baker

“To behave unconventionally is liable to be misinterpreted.”
― Evan Davis, Post-Truth: Why We Have Reached Peak Bullshit and What We Can Do About It

“Is a complex, unconventional narrative better suited to exploring the play of conceptual possibilities than a simple conventional one?”
― Christoph Grafe, OASE 70: Architecture and Literature

“Create work that supports the meaningful life of contribution, happiness and family time that you desire. (As opposed to traditional work that may take you away from fulfillment as you convince yourself that one day you’ll get your days back. You won’t. One life.)”
― Richie Norton

“The Arrow says you are practical – that you have the magic of seeing things and knowing their use.”

That was magic?”
― Sarah K.L. Wilson, Dance With The Sword

“Keeping knowledge from others for self-preservation is an ancient and evil practice.Truth, trust and transparency have always been the most dangerous anti-tradition.
The hardest part about innovation and change is rarely unconventional, it’s that conventional people have built walls that they protect with war-like tactics. Progress is the product of openness, not shallowness.”
― Richie Norton

“There is a term for those who triumph against the odds—for winners nobody saw coming. They are called dark horses.

The expression 'dark horse' first entered common parlance after the publication of The Young Duke in 1831. In this British novel, the title character bets on a horse race and loses big after the race is won by an unknown “dark horse, which had never been thought of.” The phrase quickly caught on. “Dark horse” came to denote an unexpected victor who had been overlooked because she did not fit the standard notion of a champion.

Ever since the term was coined, society has enjoyed a peculiar relationship with dark horses. By definition, we ignore them until they attain their success, at which point we are entertained and inspired by tales of their unconventional ascent. Even so, we rarely feel there is much to learn from them that we might profitably apply to our own lives, since their achievements often seem to rely upon haphazard spurts of luck.

We applaud the tenacity and pluck of a dark horse like Jennie or Alan, but the very improbability of their transformation—from fast-food server to planet-hunting astronomer, from blue-collar barkeep to upscale couturier— makes their journeys seem too exceptional to emulate. Instead, when we seek a dependable formula for success, we turn to the Mozarts, Warren Buffetts, and Tiger Woodses of the world. The ones everybody saw coming.”
― Todd Rose, Dark Horse: Achieving Success Through the Pursuit of Fulfillment

“The passion and excitement that I get from life, when immersed in studying something weird or unconventional, is amazing. It feels as though I’ve found a new toy to play with.”
― Robin S. Baker

“The judgment that comes with being unordinary is an uncomfortable feeling that many would just rather not encounter. But what if I told you that your uniqueness will open doors that you never knew that you could access?”
― Robin S. Baker, Esotericism With an Unconventional Soul: Exploring Philosophy, Spirituality, Science, and Mysticism

“To Each their own Destiny


In a swordsmith village far far north
ruled by shogunate, lived the executioner's hearth
There dwelled a girl with a firm resolve
Who decided that women should birth and only men should swords absolve?


In a world with powers and abilities grand
Where people born and boasted their quirks with a stand
A boy born normal and devoid of abnormalities
Who decided he can't be the hero others declared with their peculiarities?


In a world where mountains are might and pierce the skies
And humans are frail and are at mercy of the caverns cries
One man stood up to their might and awe
Who decided he can't conquer them and dig a path through the heavenly abode


The world is skewed and powerful dominates the weak
Conventional is normal, and anything else is meek
Those who dare will prevail over the norm
They are the ones who decide their fate and destiny beyond”
― Dishebh Bhayana

“Only those people deemed crazy will get what they want in their life.”
― Tariku Bogale

“In the journey of wellness, sometimes the path less traveled leads to the most profound healing. Embrace the wisdom of cultures far and wide, for they hold secrets that conventional medicine has yet to uncover.”
― Dr Prem Jagyasi, Dr Prem's Guide - Wellness Tourism