Achievement Quote by John Eliot

Someone once described me as a maverick and that's what I would say. I'm a maverick not by choice but by conviction.

— Van Morrison

Arrogant, pompous, obnoxious, vain, cruel, verbose, a showoff. I have been called all of these. Of course, I am.

— Howard Cosell

I understand that it's good tactics to categorize me as a close-minded, unobjective extremist, but nobody that respects me has those views.

— Alan Dershowitz

One who is too insistent on his own views, finds few to agree with him.

— Anonymous

It's the people who transcend their backgrounds who are interesting to me. I have got a bit of inverted snobbery.

— Viv Albertine

Do not cringe and make yourself small if you are called the black sheep, the maverick, the lone wolf. Those with slow seeing say…

— Clarissa Pinkola Estes

I'm a Christian-libertarian-environmentalist-capitalist-lunatic. It's a humorous way for me to describe that I'm not stereotypical.

— Joel Salatin

“There should be a word for an attitude between snobbish and unconscious, describing someone who doesn't realize how strongly he holds his own opinions.”

— Edmond Manning

People who act the most arrogant often are the most insecure, and they just can't even begin to accept the possibility that they might…

— Matt McGorry

If you're used to being a maverick, then people don't get surprised when you start acting strangely.

— Richard Armitage

Anyone who thinks they stand apart from society and defies all which govern its existence has less in common with the lone wolf patriot…

— Steven Weber

The point here is ... to be just a little less arrogant. To have just a little critical awareness about myself and my certainties.…

— David Foster Wallace