Bruce William Powe Quotes

In my heart I'm independent, a bit of a rebel, a nonconformist.

I have an aversion to being mislabeled. Here's a label I'd accept: I'm an 'individual.' I'm someone who can't follow, and doesn't want to lead.

We have to wake up. We have to refuse to be a clone.

I don't want to follow the herd.

To be an individual is the hardest thing in the world, because nobody likes you to be an individual. Everybody wants to kill your individuality and to make a sheep out of you. Nobody wants you to be on your own.

Her own contempt for any forms of pressure society might put on her was so profound and instinctive that she as instinctively despised anyone who paid tribute to them.

People relate to the spirit of the band, which is to live your way and succeed on your own terms. There's no hypocrisy in being successful and still railing against conformity.

I was seen in earlier years by family members and people of authority as somebody wasting his time. I had trouble with the restrictions of conformity. It made me edgy.

I am not in this world to live up to other people's expectations, nor do I feel that the world must live up to mine.

Rules are made for people who aren't willing to make up their own.

I'm not gonna be a slave. I'm a rock n' roller.

There are those who dance to the rhythm that is played to them, those who only dance to their own rhythm, and those who don't dance at all.

I don't care much about conforming.

I always wanted to go against hat grain because it was too restricting.

To me, flying free is doing what I want to do, even if it's different from what everybody expects me to do. I'm flying free when I win the battle between me and the people who thought I should go down this road and I find my own road.

Whoso would be a man must be a non-conformist.

I wanted to find a way of life that allowed me great freedom, not to be stuck. I went to a very traditional school, which prepared people for the army or for banking or for industry, and I wanted to be outside of that.

Those of us who submitted or surrendered our ideas and dreams and identities to the 'leaders' must take back our rights, our identities, our responsibilities.

I would never wear anything because someone told me to.

I am very into making up my own rules.

I want it to resonate: there's no rule for how to live your life. You can do things your own way.

I think everyone should be their own individualized person.

I don't really have routines or follow what my coaches tell me or how people want me to be: this stereotypical 'sleep on time and set good examples' person. I don't really know what setting a good example is.

Seek freedom from the conformity of styles