A Quote by Marjorie Benton Cooke

The surest way of being considered eccentric is just to be yourself. So few of us have the nerve.

Marjorie Benton Cooke

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Marjorie Benton Cooke
American - Novelist
1876 - 1920

Maybe it's just in America, but it seems that if you're passionate about something, it freaks people out. You're considered bizarre or eccentric. To me, it just means you know who you are.

Tim Burton

Part of me is nonhuman and eccentric, which is what a hobbit is, and I don't mind being eccentric.

Orson Bean

The truth is that we don't need everyone to like us; we need a few people to love us. Because what's better than being roundly liked is being fully known - an impossibility both professionally and personally if you're so busy being likable that you forget to be yourself.

Jessica Valenti

Eccentric doesn't bother me. 'Eccentric' being a poetic interpretation of a mathematical term meaning something that doesn't follow the lines - that's okay.

Crispin Glover

Needing to have things perfect is the surest way to immobilize yourself with frustration.

Wayne Dyer

The surest way to lose sight of who you are is to constantly compare yourself to others.

Tom Krause

Of course, the surest way to free yourself from an existential crisis is through comedy.

Jennifer Beals

I think a lot of the time having someone who you, not base yourself on, but can see yourself being after a few years, you can get quite blinded by that, in the same way love can be.

Freddie Highmore

Let us keep courage and try to be patient and gentle. And let us not mind being eccentric, and make distinction between good and evil.

Vincent Van Gogh

The surest way to bring goodness to yourself is to make it your intention to do good for somebody else.

Oprah Winfrey

Be straight with yourself just to maybe save a few more people from being stupid and being ignorant.

George Harrison

What makes me happy about the show, and what I hope people take away from it is: "Just be yourself." I know that's supremely corny, but I really think that just being honest with yourself and being honest with everyone around you is the best way to live.

Sarah Steele

You have to create the space for the possibility of people speaking as they do. If writing is supposed to lead us in any way or educate or suggest other ways of being, it can't do so by simply reflecting what's considered to be realistic. I'm not a realist in that way.

Lynne Tillman

We weren't your mainstream '50s family. Both my parents had wonderful, eccentric, artistic friends who treated us as friends as well. How your mind worked was considered important.

Melissa Mathison

They call me eccentric. They used to call me nuts. I haven't changed. The only difference between being eccentric and being nuts is the number of security boxes you own.

Al McGuire

Fiction becomes a weird way to countenance yourself and to tell the truth instead of being a way to escape yourself or present yourself in a way you figure you will be maximally likable.

David Foster Wallace

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