A Quote by Rebecca Solnit

A contrarian at heart, I am often guided by what I disagree with and don't want.

Rebecca Solnit

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Rebecca Solnit
American - Writer
Born: June 24, 1961

The best opportunities are often ones where you're being contrarian. That doesn't mean being contrarian for contrarian's sake, but it means you're thoughtful about the risks of following the crowd.

David Sze

When you think about being contrarian, you have to think about?-?how is it that smart people will disagree with me, disagree with me ...from a position of intelligence, and there is something that I know that they don't know, that will actually in fact play out to be true.

Reid Hoffman

My understanding of God is an experience. God is. That's all I know. In the Biblical tradition, it would be expressed as, "Be still and know that I am God." God is the "I am" energy. Something huge is at play here - cosmic creativity, consciousness, God, whatever you want to call it. I do believe that it's a guided ride. We're on a guided tour of the universe.

Elizabeth Lesser

It’s actually pretty easy to be contrarian. It’s hard to be contrarian and right.

Reid Hoffman

To be a contrarian, you've got to be a contrarian against your own people.

James Carville

We all have different perspectives but we tend not to disagree with each other very often in terms of where we want to get or where we want to be. So it's been amazing working with my brothers.

Ivanka Trump

When everyone is a contrarian, nobody is a contrarian

Mark Skousen

I am a contrarian.

Barry Diller

When the things in front of you in life reveal how messed up the system is, you lose faith in the system pretty quickly. You develop a contrarian attitude. Your instinct is to disagree with the status quo and then, if you can, to try and shake it up.

Jalen Rose

I'm part of the fashion system, but I don't want to follow all the rules. I don't want to be contrarian - I just want to do my own things, which are most honest and correct to do.

Dries van Noten

When you disagree with somebody else, they often tend to get very defensive. But that doesn't stop me from doing the kind of work that I want to do.

Rasika Dugal

I have followed my heart my whole life - the crazy kid, a contrarian by nature, and I've been in trouble in points in my career.

Sarah Carter

The dog is guided by kindly instinct to the man or woman whose heart is open to his advances. The cat often leaves the friend who courts her, to honor, or to harass, the unfortunate mortal who shudders at her unwelcome caresses.