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.
Every kid coming out of Harvard, every kid coming out of school now thinks he can be the next Mark Zuckerberg, and with these new technologies like cloud computing, he actually has a shot.
Get unstuck from whatever it is you perceive is holding you back from realizing your dreams.
When a man has put a limit on what he will do, he has put a limit on what he can do.
Enthusiasm needs to be effective enthusiasm. We must distinguish between the contribution and enthusiasm of the cheerleader and the enthusiasm of the player. While cheerleaders serve an important purpose, the real contest involves players on the field or on the court of life. We must not go through life acting only as enthusiastic cheerleaders available for hire; we must be anxiously and personally engaged.
By striving to do the impossible, man has always achieved what is possible.
Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second.
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