Quotes: Eccentricity

My mother was the concert master of the symphony. Absurdity and eccentricity were not criticized.

Graphic design is the paradise of individuality, eccentricity, heresy, abnormality, hobbies and humors.

No one can be profoundly original who does not avoid eccentricity.

To seek understanding before taking action, yet to trust my instincts when action is called for. Never to avoid danger from fear, never to seek out danger for its own sake. Never to conform to fashion from fear of eccentricity, never to be eccentric from fear of conformity.

Eccentricity has always abounded when and where strength of character had abounded; and the amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and courage which it contained.

There’s not much room for eccentricity in Hollywood, and eccentricity is what’s sexy in people.

The amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and moral courage it contained. That so few now dare to be eccentric marks the chief danger of the time.

A civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point of doubtful sanity.