Zitat des Tages über Exzentrizität / Eccentricity:
I find only freedom in the realms of eccentricity.
A civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point of doubtful sanity.
Now I'm old... maybe I'm still an eccentric hippie. There's a wonderful freedom in the eccentricity - you can go places, you can be wacky, and you don't have to be constrained. I think that's why people are eccentric - eccentricity is a weapon... and it's great!
No one can be profoundly original who does not avoid eccentricity.
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.
Graphic design is the paradise of individuality, eccentricity, heresy, abnormality, hobbies and humors.
My eccentricity became direction.
If you define eccentricity as creativity, then yes, creativity is eccentricity.
The amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and moral courage it contained. That so few now dare to be eccentric marks the chief danger of the time.
There's not much room for eccentricity in Hollywood, and eccentricity is what's sexy in people.
Having grown up in the Middle East, eating beans for breakfast always seemed like a bizarre British eccentricity.
My mother was the concert master of the symphony. Absurdity and eccentricity were not criticized.
'The Man Who Never Was,' by Ewen Montagu, remains the best book about wartime espionage written by an active participant - incomplete, and dry in parts, it nonetheless summons up the ingenuity and sheer eccentricity of those who played this strange and dangerous game.
Eccentricity has always abounded when and where strength of character had abounded; and the amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and courage which it contained.
There's a certain pattern that exists with geniuses - an eccentricity, a lack of social graces and an inability to really communicate with mere mortals.
We design for a whole range of ages and body types, and we always have done. What's great about us is that the common thing that they all like is an accessible eccentricity of an accessible flamboyance, and I think the super thing about that, it isn't age-specific: you're not only dressing 25-year-olds; we're dressing women from 25 to 65+.
Eccentricity has never been discouraged in our family.
I adore Britain! It's my favourite country; I love their eccentricity. I find Britain so inspiring.
I don't want to cancel the South out in my life. I carry my Southernness with me. God knows, it's a great place to come from. It's also a place I had to get away from. It is just an endless world for me, so much culture and eccentricity.