Creative Maverick Gifts

High School. I was suspended for throwing a Robert Frost book. They didn't see that it was performance - poetry in motion.

"I'm working on a watercolor."

Thoughts

"Rolled-up sleeves, no coat, loose tie...it's my casual confrontational look."

"Yeah, I got into trouble, but I think the principal really enjoyed my rendition of 'I Did It My Way.'"

Orchestra.

'Play it again, Sam.'

Guitar Man.

"We need to think outside the pentangle."

'You're developing a reputation as something of a cowboy, Henderson.'

'As I see it, our choices are 'no' and 'hell no'.'

'I want ideas so bold, so wildly innovative, so undeniably brilliant that they retain a shred of originality after everyone picks them to pieces.'

"I actually saw ten gay characters on television this week—which almost balanced out the 2,174 straight characters I saw."

"...then finally, I got serious and started a band."

'I sometimes wonder if these endless meetings accomplish anything.'

Targets.

"We need to sue, claiming free speech is being violated by remotes with fast forward buttons."

'Can't he ever use a different kind of chart?'

"He's not sleeping. He always dims his display while downloading data."

"Every now and then, I find myself in a room filled with people who are wrong."

"Since I am chairman, it behooves me to go first. 'What I Did Over My Summer Vacation,' by Wilson Rupert Hewes."

'Who wants the talking stick?'

Popera!

'You just don't seem to be fitting in.'

"We must kill this initiative, so let's mainstream it."

"I liked it better when you used gobbledygook."

"Who ordered the bravest tuna on all the seven seas, anointed with the spice of faraway lands, on wheat toast?"

"Nice design but you haven't quite mastered the technology!"

"Anything goes today: I want this to be a free and open discussion of my entrenched positions."

Cello player with pencil instead of bow

'I say we try it.'

"The result of our last meeting are impressive: 3 completely solved crossword puzzles, 7 battleship matches, 5 shopping lists, and 26 really funny doodles."

Management Speak - reading between the lines: "This new role would involve some extra responsibilities." "He wants me too work twice as hard."

'Beasley, you're a good communicator, look down the table and make eye contact for me!'

'There always seems to be ONE trouble-maker in the company who gets a sick thrill from rebelling against our corporate culture!'