John Forbes Nash Jr. Quotes

As an artist you actually do have to make a choice to be an outsider. If you're an outsider you have the freedom to say what people on the inside don't dare to say.

Whether we want to acknowledge it or not, Jesus didn't do it the world's way. He came in and offended the world. He came in and did everything the wrong way.

Personally, I've never been popular, so I'm not surprised that professionally I'm a bit out of step, too.

I've always identified with the misfits.

An outsider can see some things much better.

An outsider's point of view is always handy.

Outsiders often have an insight that an insider doesn't quite have.

I play outsiders. That's just the way it's gone for me, and I think that's fantastic. I like it because I've always been interested in how the other guy thinks. I want to know what's going on in his head.

In any industry, the people with the freshest ideas usually come from outside.

I think most of us are outsiders. And I think that's good because it makes you question things.

I've always worked on the fringe of the British press establishment, carving out this niche for myself.

I've had a chance to see something that is way outside everybody else's frame of reference and gives a perspective that is very different from everyone else's.

I mean, I'm not a contrarian.

I don't think that my kind of journalism has ever been universally popular. It's lonely out here.

I don't like anything in the mainstream and they don't like me.

I've always been interested in writing from the perspective of an outsider.

Some of the most valuable stuff I do has to do with my dissenting from the general opinion about people in movements.

I have discovered that for me - now, maybe it doesn't work for everybody - for me, it is much more effective to arrive at any situation as a man from Mars than to try to fit in.

Everyone's entitled to their point of view but that's seriously a weird one.

We want to push boundaries musically if we can and come at things from a different direction.

Most people view success by the results, and I don't.

I left the 'Trib' in 1970 with the feeling that I would never have a career in establishment media of any kind.

My route is a little bit nontraditional. A lot of the people working in Nashville, they have a model. I don't really fit into that.

I've always been weird, and into weird stuff that has a hard time finding mainstream success.

Every writer is an outsider.