Kelli White Quotes

I'd rather look ridiculous when everybody else does than plain and sensible all by myself.

I grew up in a small town where everyone wanted to be the same or look the same and was afraid to be different.

Just because so many conforming kids wake up every morning asking, 'What is everybody else going to wear today?' doesn't mean that they don't wish it were different. Peer pressure is just that: pressure.

When I was a kid, I was afraid of large group of conforming people.

The only behaviour that is truly common is to avoid doing something because you think others might consider it common.

The reason most people don't express their individuality and actually deny it, is not fear of what prime ministers think of us or the head of the federal reserve, It's what their families and their friends down at the bar are going to think of them.

Most people live their life around what other people do.

You might as well play at the show everyone else is playing at.

Everybody wants to be like everybody else.

Conformity--the natural instinct to passively yield to that vague something recognized as authority.

Few people can resist doing what is universally expected of them. This invisible pressure is more difficult to stand against than individual tyranny.

When people are free to do as we please, they usually imitate each other.

We all feel the urge to conform; it is the most normal of human desires.

If we attach more importance to what other people believe than to what we know to be true - if we value belonging over being - we will not attain authenticity.

Must one dread what others dread?

I went to public school for like, one day. I don't get it. Everybody tries to be exactly the same. I think being an outsider is a good thing.

The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it is conformity.

Public opinion is a permeating influence, and it exacts obedience to itself; it requires us to drink other men's thoughts, to speak other men's words, to follow other men's habits.

There is a level of cowardice lower than that of the conformist: the fashionable non-conformist.

In the beginning of my YouTube channel, I feel like I was doing what everyone else was doing, and I kind of felt very pressured to fit in with everyone.

I don't like to be different; I would like to be the same.

It is hard to be an individual in Japan.

While children are struggling to be unique, the world around them is trying all means to make them look like everybody else.

The race of man, while sheep in credulity, are wolves for conformity.

There is nothing in the world that I loathe more than group activity, that communal bath where the hairy and slippery mix in a multiplication of mediocrity.