Quotes About Conformity

I felt trapped and fabricated in the fifties living up to other people's expectations.

There's a system in place in Nashville, and for a long time, I was trapped in this idea that the only way to do it was to come to town, get a record deal, and do it the way they say. And that system works. But it caters to a specific kind of artist, and I didn't necessarily fit that mold.

If you behave normally, people treat you normally. It's only when you act as if you're someone special that they feel obliged to stand on ceremony.

My fear is that many institutions will eventually alter how they treat people who refuse to self-track. There are all sorts of political and moral implications here, and I'm not sure that we have grappled with any of them.

People who don't fit the mold are treated differently than those who do.

One of the shocking things when I go back to Canada is they cut off the tall trees - it's sort of like everyone's the same. Everyone's going to be the same, we're all okay. Just the, sort of, cultural, 'We're all okay.'

I was the funny-looking one who wore a trench coat and played hacky sack with the other greasy kids.

It's no secret that in our society, and many before, people are trend followers. For some reason, they feel better about themselves if they are dressed in the latest fashion or have the newest tech gadget.

I don't know if being stereotyped is good or bad. But, that is the trend industry follows.

Trends die. That's the natural thing about a trend. It's natural for people to be followers and be sheep and go with a trend.

Things get much easier if one jumps on the bandwagon of existing trends.

I think Hollywood acts like followers of culture and is constantly seeking to follow trends.

We're so trendy we can't even escape ourselves.

As soon as something becomes 'trendy,' I go off it. I hate the idea of being a sheep and just following a look because I've been told it's fashionable. Individuality makes the world a much more interesting place.

It was go-along to get-along social. It was living in Los Angeles, being young and single, and flowing with the trendy liberal crowd.

It isn't till now, in the American Century, as we have recklessly dubbed it, that tribal pressures toward conformity have been brought to bear so ruthlessly upon men and women seeking to work creatively.

I come from a time when every kid dressed up. Everybody. If you didn't, you wouldn't be able to hang out. It was very tribal. There's nice things in that. It's culture; it's roots for me.

In the earlier years of my career, I made my own attempts to fit in and be accepted as one of the tribe of Sand Hill Road guys.

Some people would rather be right than free.

Y???n kad?nd?r. Irz?n? teslim edecek bir zorba arar. Çobans?z rahat edemeyen kaz sürüsü.

Education is a system designed to make you feel inferior, yet they encourage you to accept it in order to be superior

Most people play someone else's role or wear mask of other people because they don't think about what they are created for

A person living in everyone else's style reacts only to stimulus

Human being living at the level of biomass will comply with all standards and patterns that are required by the surroundings and society