"You pay a certain penalty for going..." - Quote by Ray Bradbury
You pay a certain penalty for going your own way. A lot of people think you're nuts, and you're not as popular with girls as you should be.
More by Ray Bradbury
“Don't write for money. Write because you love to do something. If you write for money, you won't write anything worth reading.”
“I've been afraid of people playing their life away with too many toys.”
“Don’t let people interfere with you. Boot ’em out, turn off the phone, hide away, get it done. If you carry a short story over to the next day you may overnight intellectualize something about it and try to make it too fancy, try to please someone.”
More on Individuality
“Every man alone is sincere. At the entrance of a second person, hypocrisy begins”
“Self-sacrifice is the real miracle out of which all the reported miracles grow. Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it. Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect. The louder he talked of his honesty, the quicker we counted the silverware.”
“Just keep doing 'you', and being who you are and doing what feels natural to you.”
More on Nonconformity
“Whoso would be a man, must be a nonconformist. He who would gather immortal palms must not be hindered by the name of goodness, but must explore it if it be goodness. Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind. Absolve you to yourself, and you shall have the suffrage of the world.”
“If you're going to follow your bliss and make a difference in the world, you'll soon learn that you can't follow the herd.”
“The nonconformist and the rebel say all manner of unanswerable things against the existing republic, but discover to our sense no plan of house or state of their own.”