Eccentricity Quotes

I think what eccentricity can represent in terms of the fear it engenders is a challenge to what is already considered right or good by people who have invested a certain amount into their life and livelihood that is not eccentric, but centric. If there`s a challenge to that, that can make people concerned that either what is considered a safe way of living or a good way of living may be pulled out from under them. I can understand that. That`s why countercultural film movements are important since it`s lacking in the culture right now. There`s an idea that there`s value to an alternate point of view, but everything that`s presented in the media is procultural, and it makes people nervous when there hasn`t been a true discussion of alternate points of view. There`s no general discussion in the media.

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

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

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.

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

Eccentricity is not, as dull people would have us believe, a form of madness. It is often a kind of innocent pride, and the man of genius and the aristocrat are frequently regarded as eccentrics because genius and aristocrat are entirely unafraid of and uninfluenced by the opinions and vagaries of the crowd.