Quotes About Individuality

In America, through pressure of conformity, there is freedom of choice, but nothing to choose from.

My message isn't perfectly defined. I have, as a human being, fallen to peer pressure.

At the end of the day, just know that God made you, so you can be your own individual, and don't let people give you that peer pressure.

I didn't try to copy my dad or fit into the pressure or the mold that everybody tried to make me fit into.

Do what you want to do, and don't feel pressure to do what other people want.

I write because writing is something that I have to do. And it doesn't matter whether people like it or not. When I write, I feel the pressure and anxiety that come with taking an empty piece of paper and trying to fill it with something from your own consciousness.

There's more pressure to be famous for being yourself than if you're being a character.

I know that some girls look up to me for certain things, like dyslexia, and that way I know that they like me for me, so it adds no pressure.

I don't have the pressure of being a world-famous bombshell that has detonated.

You don't need to bow down to peer pressure or be comparing yourself.

And remember: without you, all we are is loud. No pressure.

I don't care what other people say. The important pressure, you put on yourself. The pressure that others put on you? I ignore it.

There's peer pressure of not being respected of having a certain amount of money, but if you know who you are, then you see that and look past it.

The pressure of looking a certain way and having to present yourself a certain way is hard. It's difficult to feel genuine about yourself when you feel the pressure of being a certain person.

There's never any pressure on the music having to be something.

I'm not someone who feels the pressure of someone else's expectations. That's a very young way to feel.

Today's multiracial Americans are at greater liberty to choose how they'd like to be seen, and under less pressure to pass for white.

I don't think you should feel too pressured about a mixtape. Just do what you want to do and show the music you want to show. You're not trying to win something big with it.

You know, I'm just a very boring, not very funny person in person. I don't feel pressured to be otherwise.

I do feel like young people feel pressured to be extraordinary in a new way. Of course everybody is extraordinary in their own special way... but not everybody has been an activist, or volunteered somewhere incredible, or has perfect scores. So it's a lot of pressure to put on young people.

In this perfect world, there are certain imperfections that catch your eye. That's what works for me. I don't concentrate on being perfect, but instead put that effort behind my craft and being true to myself. I don't conform to pressures outside of me. I am confident about myself.

At its heart, 'Mostly Good Girls' is about the pressures we put on ourselves to live up to ideas of perfection.

A lot of people give in to those pressures and let others influence the process on their second albums because they want to achieve the success they had with their first again, but they don't know how to do it.

People are always going to tell you to lose weight, and they tell you how they feel about it. There are pressures always to be a certain weight, but you have to be who you are. And if you want to change, you have got to do it for you and not for what people want you to be.