Maverick Quotes

• 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

  Energy, World, Composer

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• 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

  Wall, Pain, Media

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• Dirty Harry, for example. Clint Eastwood was not a rogue cop. He was a maverick cop, but he was a good guy.

  Charlton Heston

  Dirty, Naughty, Guy

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• 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

  Civilization, Advancement, Nests

  "The Syntax of Sorcery: An Interview with Tom Robbins". Interview with Tony Vigorito, realitysandwich.com. June 6, 2012.

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• 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

  Writing, People, Break

  "Quentin Tarantino’s Classic Quotes" by Justin Kroll, variety.com. October 21, 2009.

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• 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

  Believe, Thinking, Earth

  Arnold Schwarzenegger's Commencement Address at University of Southern California in Los Angeles, California, about.usc.edu. May 15, 2009.

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• The most successful people are mavericks who aren't afraid to ask why, especially when everyone thinks it's obvious.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Inspirational, Success, Thinking

  Twitter post from Sep 18, 2013

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• 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

  Crazy, Views, Achievement

  John Eliot, PhD (2015). “Overachievement: The Science of Working Less to Accomplish More”, p.71, Diversion Books

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• Taking risks, breaking the rules, and being a maverick have always been important but today they are more crucial than ever.

  Gary Hamel

  Risk, Important, Today

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• 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

  Book, Heart, Character

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• Maverick is a word which appeals to me more than misfit. Maverick is active, misfit is passive.

  Alan Rickman

  Misfits, Appeals, Passive

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• Being a Christian executive in Hollywood has contributed to me fulfilling my destiny. Hollywood respects the maverick, the person who's unique and has the confidence to defy the system and everyone who tells them they're wrong in order to follow their vision. It's been me embracing by Christianity that has made me different, unique, and of value in my industry. Maintaining who I am and who God wants me to be throughout my career is what keeps me on the path to having the career I desire. I know what I value, and I never deviate from that no matter what.

  DeVon Franklin

  Christian, Unique, Destiny

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• 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

  Discipline, Focus, Personality

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• 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

  Responsibility, Beer, Men

  David Ogilvy (1963). “Confessions of an advertising man”, Holiday House

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• A maverick may go his own way but he doesn't think that it's the only way or ever claim that it's the best one, except maybe for himself. And don't imagine that this raggle-taggle gypsy is claiming to be free. It's just that some of the necessities to which I am a slave are different from yours.

  Orson Welles

  Thinking, Different, May

  YouTube Channel "American Film Institute"/"Orson Welles Accepts the AFI Life Achievement Award in 1975", www.youtube.com. February 02, 2011.

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• 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

  Always Trying, Topography, Transition

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• The films that I really enjoy now are films that are made by, for wont of a better word, mavericks.

  Peter Mullan

  Film, Made, Enjoy

  "Scotland’s Indie Film 'Orphan' Peter Mullan". Interview with Anthony Kaufman, www.indiewire.com. March 08, 2000.

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• I always wanted to be an independent maverick, writing plays and putting them on myself.

  Christian McKay

  Writing, Independent, Play

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• 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

  Molecules, Sovereign, Ifs

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• I'm a maverick. I've always been a maverick.

  Sonny Bono

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• 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

  Top Management, People, Guy

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• 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

  Successful, People, Design

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• Mavericks and its talent deserve this innovation and respect. Now is the time to harness its power for the world to experience. These athletes amaze me with each wave ridden; I am honored to take on such an empowering responsibility. I look forward to celebrating these artists of big wave surfing through showcasing the most important wave in history.

  Griffin Guess

  Athlete, Responsibility, Artist

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• The FDA, NCI and ACS, and the large treatment centres work to eliminate choice of cancer therapies, particulary better ones. They openly attack breakthroughs made by "mavericks", which they define as anyone outside their ranks. Folks, any serious study of how these entities work together to destroy hopeful approaches to cancer reveals a trail of corruption, conspiracy, dishonesty, and inhumanity that warrants desigantion of evil........We continue to use them not because they work, but because those who perform them have so vigorously eliminated any other choice.

  Julian Whitaker

  Cancer, Fda, Evil

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• 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

  Wisdom, Science, Thinking

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