Attributed No Source Quotes

“It is equally important to grab and take hold of kindred spirits when you find them. They are few and far between, especially those who devote their lives to following their own scripts.”
― Gordon Roddick

“What a fucking tapestry woven by mad and sensitive egos; sometimes, the flatulence of words blows the intention out the window, but it is just a few steps backwards. I get so near to getting into detail about people and things, then like a pinball machine, my thoughts bang off sideways to some other peg and hang there for a nanosecond only to be tossed on somewhere else. Where is that still, quiet place of examination?”
― Gordon Roddick

“What if one's view is right or wrong? What is good or bad, and why? Things I must define more clearly – this is something lacking in me.”
― Gordon Roddick, 1965

“I am Gordon Roddick, 23 years of age. Screw behaviour patterns. Serenity. This pen, too. It's no bloody good.”
― Gordon Roddick, 1965

“Forgiveness was never a big part of the deal. Clarity of purpose, great journeys, unequal struggle, dogged persistence, moments of deep despair, mountainous odds stacked against the hero. The glimmer of light, the one true test. ”
― Gordon Roddick, 1965

“I had arrived with a thirst for adventure, adventure of any description. I was a stupid 23-year‑old boy looking for trouble. What trouble looked like, I had no idea.”
― Gordon Roddick, 1965

“Be last at everything. Nobody will have any expectations.”
― Gordon Roddick, 1965

“I saw how much we were subject to other people's expectations in the City – and they weren't the same as ours.”
― Gordon Roddick

“We felt increasingly trapped by some shareholders' conservatism and narrow outlook. ”
― Gordon Roddick

“The lessons of creeping loss of control made us decide to go private again if possible.”
― Gordon Roddick

“Three times, we tried to buy back the business. The difficulty was that financial institutions assumed if we wanted to buy the company back from shareholders, we must have an idea that profits were about to rise considerably.”
― Gordon Roddick

“There needs to be some mechanism to give a voice to the general good – especially in the case of the energy giants who have such control over our future.”
― Gordon Roddick

“Dreams are nothing if not acted upon and turned into reality. To that, I add, keep control of your dreams because if you hand them over to others, they will not have the same commitment to achieving your reality.”
― Gordon Roddick

“It's about celebrating diversity in all its aspects, human and biological.”
― Gordon Roddick

“Accept responsibility.”
― Gordon Roddick

“Throughout my life, I have been drawn to outsiders. The ultimate outsiders were the Beat Poets. Read the Beat Poets' work aloud. Their modern equivalent would be rappers. ”
― Gordon Roddick

“The Beat Poets wrote spontaneously, ignoring accepted form in favour of the complex rhythms of everyday speech. ”
― Gordon Roddick

“The heroes (Lucky Jim’s) are so attractive because there is an honesty in the portrayal of a weak, sometimes witty, human being with the ability to laugh – the ones committed to action, the irredeemable, the unchangeable – a youthful obsession of mine.  ”
― Gordon Roddick

“My personal heroes are those who live as they shout, as they proclaim, as they are, for sure, with buckets full of insecurity, doubt and quicksands of anxiety. – out there – unafraid – uncopyable – unquenchable – dissatisfied – slightly dangerous – uncontrollable – and always corruptible!”
― Gordon Roddick

“Not afraid of controversy.”
― Gordon Roddick

“Remote from the world's real meanings, can we sit here comfortably?”
― Gordon Roddick

“I am pretty much anti-everything.”
― Gordon Roddick

“I have always been inspired by those who have gone their own way, who have challenged orthodoxy and the status quo and sought to make a difference, right wrongs, and often put up with being unpopular for saying and doing what they think is right.”
― Gordon Roddick

“Real heroes live by a different drumbeat, verging or merging into anarchy. They break the rules and smash moulds. Some of them rampage through life with disrespect for what they leave in their slipstream.”
― Gordon Roddick

“When is it time to quit moaning and get on with it?”
― Gordon Roddick

“The university of life and meeting people is so important.”
― Gordon Roddick

“This journey I know will lead somewhere, but where?”
― Gordon Roddick

“Proud to work, better human beings. People are the most important element. We must feel good about coming in to work every day. Passion is not something you can teach.”
― Gordon Roddick

“38 Degrees. Anita would have been happy that a new spirit of activism would have taken root and her passions supported beyond her life.”
― Gordon Roddick

“It's all about the how, not the what.”
― Gordon Roddick