{"quotes":[{"text":"A person willing to fly in the face of reason, authority, and common sense must be a person of considerable self-assurance. Since he occurs only rarely, he must seem eccentric (in at least that respect) to the rest of us. A person eccentric in one respect is often eccentric in others.Consequently, the person who is most likely to get new ideas is a person of good background in the field of interest and one who is unconventional in his habits. (To be a crackpot is not, however, enough in itself.).","author":"Isaac Asimov","tags":["assurance","crackpots","creativity","eccentricity","eccentrics","new-ideas","unconventionality"],"id":79519,"author_id":"Isaac+Asimov"},{"text":"If you don't fit into a box you can always try to fit into a circle.","author":"Matshona Dhliwayo","tags":["be-different","creativity","different","ingenuity","out-of-the-box-thinking","stand-out-from-the-crowd","success","unconventional","unconventionality","uniqueness"],"id":138921,"author_id":"Matshona+Dhliwayo"},{"text":"Stand out because you think differently.Stand out because you speak differently.Stand out because you act differently.Stand out because you work differently.Stand out because you live differently.","author":"Matshona Dhliwayo","tags":["brilliance","eccentricity","excellence","genius","greatness","stand-out-from-the-crowd","success","unconventional","unconventionality","unique"],"id":158688,"author_id":"Matshona+Dhliwayo"},{"text":"If you truly want to be respected by people you love, you must prove to them that you can survive without them.","author":"Michael Bassey Johnson","tags":["affair","assurance","autonomy","believe-in-yourself","breakup","composure","detachment","development","disappearance","distance","escape","fade","freedom","hide","hideout","impression","independence","leg-pulling","let-go","letting-go","liberty","love","michael-bassey-johnson","neutrality","out-of-view","poise","prove","respect","self-control","self-reliance","self-rule","separation","single","sovereignty","survival","test","unconventional","unconventionality","vanish"],"id":267245,"author_id":"Michael+Bassey+Johnson"},{"text":"It is not difficult to stand above the conventions when we leave no hostages among them; men can always be more unconventional than women, and a bachelor of independent means need encounter no difficulties at all.","author":"E.M. Forster","tags":["conventions","independence","unconventionality"],"id":282974,"author_id":"E.M.+Forster"},{"text":"I'm kind of over getting told to throw my hands up in the air,So there.","author":"Lorde","tags":["adolescence","lorde","lyrics","pure-heroine","song-lyrics","team","teenagers","teens","unconventionality"],"id":320580,"author_id":"Lorde"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":6,"pages":1}}