Where's your will to be weird?
Jim MorrisonRead
I like people who shake other people up and make them feel uncomfortable.
Interpretation
This quote champions individuals who challenge the status quo and provoke thought.
Jim Morrison emphasizes the value of those who disrupt complacency and stimulate change in others. By appreciating people who make us feel uncomfortable, he encourages a growth mindset, suggesting that discomfort can lead to personal and social transformation.
In practice
During a team meeting, I shared Jim Morrison's quote to encourage my colleagues to think outside the box.
Where's your will to be weird?
I can make the earth stop in its tracks. I made the blue cars go away. I can make myself invisible or small. I can become gigantic & reach the farthest things. I can change the course of nature. I can place myself anywhere in space or time. I can summon the dead. I can perceive events on other worlds, in my deepest inner mind, & in the minds of others. I can I am
In the holy solipsism of the young Now I can't walk thru a city street w/out eying each single pedestrian. I feel thier vibe thru my skin, the hair on my neck --- it rises.
Sex is full of lies. The body tries to tell the truth. But, it's usually too battered with rules to be heard, and bound with pretenses so it can hardly move. We cripple ourselves with lies.
I think the highest and lowest points are the important ones. Anything else is just...in between.
I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder, chaos-especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom... Rather than starting inside, I start outside and reach the mental through the physical.
Ask me to play. I'll play. Ask me to shoot. I'll shoot. Ask me to pass. I'll pass. Ask me to steal, block out, sacrifice, lead, dominate. Anything. But it's not what you ask of me. It's what I ask of myself.
Make glorious, amazing mistakes. Make mistakes nobody's ever made before. Whatever you're scared of doing, Do it.
Don't sit down and wait for the opportunities to come. Get up and make them.
Failure, to me, is not having the desire to try. Having the desire to try is in it own way success.
You are capable of more than you know. Choose a goal that seems right for you and strive to be the best, however hard the path. Aim high. Behave honorably. Prepare to be alone at times, and to endure failure. Persist! The world needs all you can give.
Always seek out the seed of triumph in every adversity.
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