I shall be telling this with a sigh Somewhere ages and ages hence: Two roads diverged in a wood and I I took the one less traveled by And that has made all the difference.
We will discover the nature of our particular genius when we stop trying to conform to our own or to other peoples models learn to be ourselves and allow our natural channel to open.
The case with most men is that they go out into life with one or another accidental characteristic of personality of which they say: Well this is the way I am. I cannot do otherwise. Then the world gets to work on them and thus the majority of men are ground into conformity. In each generation a small part cling to their I cannot do otherwise and lose their minds. Finally there are a very few in each generation who in spite of all lifes terrors cling with more and more inwardness to this I cannot do otherwise. They are the geniuses. Their I cannot do otherwise is an infinite thought for if one were to cling firmly to a finite thought he would lose his mind.
Read every day something no one else is reading. Think every day something no one else is thinking. It is bad for the mind to be always part of unanimity.
We are discreet sheep; we wait to see how the drove is going and then go with the drove. We have two opinions: one private which we are afraid to express; and another one the one we use which we force ourselves to wear to please Mrs. Grundy until habit makes us comfortable in it and the custom of defending it presently makes us love it adore it and forget how pitifully we came by it. Look at it in politics.
If there is anything the nonconformist hates worse than a conformist it?s another nonconformist who doesn?t conform to the prevailing standard of nonconformity.
The fastest way to succeed is to look as if youre playing by somebody elses rules while quietly playing by your own.
Who so would be a man must be a nonconformist.
The opposite of bravery is not cowardice but conformity.
The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut one knows exactly where one is.
Conform and be dull.
It gives me great pleasure indeed to see the stubbornness of an incorrigible nonconformist warmly acclaimed.
I shall be telling this with a sigh Somewhere ages and ages hence: Two roads diverged in a wood and I I took the one less traveled by And that has made all the difference.
We will discover the nature of our particular genius when we stop trying to conform to our own or to other peoples models learn to be ourselves and allow our natural channel to open.
No one can possibly achieve any real and lasting success or get rich in business by being a conformist.
The case with most men is that they go out into life with one or another accidental characteristic of personality of which they say: Well this is the way I am. I cannot do otherwise. Then the world gets to work on them and thus the majority of men are ground into conformity. In each generation a small part cling to their I cannot do otherwise and lose their minds. Finally there are a very few in each generation who in spite of all lifes terrors cling with more and more inwardness to this I cannot do otherwise. They are the geniuses. Their I cannot do otherwise is an infinite thought for if one were to cling firmly to a finite thought he would lose his mind.
Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.
Every society honors its live conformists and its dead troublemakers.
Read every day something no one else is reading. Think every day something no one else is thinking. It is bad for the mind to be always part of unanimity.
Only dead fish swim with the stream.
The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.
In any free society the conflict between social conformity and individual liberty is permanent unresolvable and necessary.
Any fool can make a rule and every fool will mind it.
Most people cant understand how others can blow their noses differently than they do.
We are discreet sheep; we wait to see how the drove is going and then go with the drove. We have two opinions: one private which we are afraid to express; and another one the one we use which we force ourselves to wear to please Mrs. Grundy until habit makes us comfortable in it and the custom of defending it presently makes us love it adore it and forget how pitifully we came by it. Look at it in politics.
To get nowhere follow the crowd.
If there is anything the nonconformist hates worse than a conformist it?s another nonconformist who doesn?t conform to the prevailing standard of nonconformity.
We are half ruined by conformity but we should be wholly ruined without it.
Either do as your neighbors do or move away.