Maverick Quotes

“Innovation is deviance which means that the rebellious personality is a natural resource for practical creativity. As an innovator, you need to reject the old to establish a new, better, status quo. And one of the most powerful sources of newness is the rebel or maverick, mind.”
― Max McKeown

“Biting the hand that feeds you, that's what you're doing Mary Logan, biting the hand that feeds you.'
Again Mama laughed, 'If that's the case, Daisy, I don't think I need that little bit of food.'
With the second book finished, she stared at a small pile of second grade books on her desk.
'Well, I just think you're spoiling those children, Mary. They've got to learn how things are sometime.'
'Maybe so,' said Mama. 'But that doesn't mean they have to accept them. And maybe we don't either.”
― Mildred D. Taylor, Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry

“I personally believe mavericks are people who write their own rulebook.

They are the ones who act first and talk later. They are fiercely independent thinkers who know how to fight the lizard brain (to use Seth Godin’s term).
I don’t believe many are born, rather they are products of an environment, or their experiences.

They are usually the people that find the accepted norm does not meet their requirements and have the self-confidence, appetite, independence, degree of self reliance and sufficient desire to carve out their own niche in life.

I believe a maverick thinker can take a new idea, champion it, and push it beyond the ability of a normal person to do so. I also believe the best mavericks can build a team, can motivate with their vision, their passion, and can pull together others to accomplish great things. A wise maverick knows that they need others to give full form to their views and can gather these necessary contributors around them.

Mavericks, in my experience, fall into various categories – a/ the totally off-the-wall, uncontrollable genius who won’t listen to anyone; b/ the person who thinks that they have the ONLY solution to a challenge but prepared to consider others’ views on how to conquer the world &, finally, the person who thinks laterally to overcome problems considered to be irresolvable. I like in particular the third category.

The upside is that mavericks, because of their different outlook on life, often sees opportunities and solutions that others cannot. But the downside is that often, because in life there is always some degree of luck in success (i.e. being in the right place at the right time), mavericks that fail are often ridiculed for their unorthodox approach. However when they succeed they are acclaimed for their inspiration. It is indeed a fine line they walk in life.”
― Ziad K. Abdelnour, Economic Warfare: Secrets of Wealth Creation in the Age of Welfare Politics

“Yes, he would be gone, but she knew now what it meant to love. She might not know
what it meant to be loved, but loving was almost as good.”
― Lora Leigh, Maverick

“Micah knew the power of a look. When two people touched from across a distance, that touch could be frightening, wary, or a stroke of gentleness. He stroked her gently. He never let his eyes dip below her chin; rather, he let himself take in every nuance of expression, every shift of each facial motion, the flicker of her lashes, the shadows in her eyes, the tension in her small body.
She was like a bird ready to fly. Poised at the edge of her seat, her body stiff and prepared to run.”
― Lora Leigh, Maverick

“There is a madness in me that does not follow society.”
― Avijeet Das

“Be individual, break free from the flock to avoid the predictable midsummer haircut.”
― Fennel Hudson, Traditional Angling: Fennel's Journal No. 6

“We believe that great creators are born with a biological immunity to risk. They’re wired to embrace uncertainty
and ignore social approval; they simply don’t worry about the costs of non-conformity the way the rest of us do. They’re programmed to be iconoclasts, rebels, revolutionaries, troublemakers, mavericks, and contrarians who are impervious to fear, rejection, and ridicule.”
― Adam Grant, Originals: How Non-Conformists Move the World

“Thunderation.” His fingers tightened on the cup.

She rushed over. “Where does it hurt? Are you in pain? Is there anything I can do?”

He gazed up into her eyes. “I don’t know if you can give me what I need.” 
His steady gaze impaled her.

Silence loomed between them like a heavy mist and the room felt warm and heavy. 
A clock chimed. It would be time for the funeral soon. 


- A Desperate Journey”
― Debra Parmley, A Desperate Journey

“What about young age? You will be miserable all through your 15
years to reach that goal of $10 million. After 50 years, even if you
pay a million to get back a week of your time at 35, you will never
get that. Your beer will taste very different when you are at 50 from
how it tasted at 30,” Richita argued.”
― Ravindra Shukla, A Maverick Heart: Between Love and Life

“Remember: the hair that sticks out gets lopped off.”
― Sol Luckman, Cali the Destroyer

“J'en arrivai finalement à les croire, incapable que j'étais d'imaginer (c'était au-dessus de mon audace) que tous les autres pouvaient se tromper, que la Révolution elle-même, l'esprit du temps, se trompait, tandis que moi, individu, j'avais raison.”
― Milan Kundera, The Joke

“First we lose, then we win in life. The one who wins after losing is known as the Maverick!”
― Avijeet Das, Why the Silhouette?

“I loved her because she made me laugh every single day. I loved her determination to be a maverick and her ceaseless caring for the underdog”
― Gordon Roddick

“Hay un tipo de persona terca, libre y con empuje para apartarse del discurso ortodoxo de su gremio. Ni siquiera se da cuenta, no funciona a la contra, solo hace lo que le da la gana y cree en ello ciegamente. Alguien con esa mirada es casi invencible”
― Marta D. Riezu, Agua y jabón