Katelyn Ohashi Quotes

Everybody is under pressure to shut up and sing.

He learned too much and too early that victory goes to the discreet, that one does not speak one's opinion, that ideally one does not even develop one's opinion.

I was made to be a perfectionist at everything I did. Everything was more important than what I wanted.

I didn't have a dysfunctional childhood or young adulthood, but I was somebody who was very much raised to do what other people told me to do as a person.

When I was in fact a child, six and seven and eight years old, I was utterly baffled by the enthusiasm with which my cousin Brenda, a year and a half younger, accepted her mother's definition of her as someone who needed to go to bed at six-thirty and finish every bite of three vegetables, one of them yellow, with every meal.

Influence is a very unpleasant subject and I deal with it in a maybe irresponsible way, which is to really ignore it. It would be a nightmare if we started to really think about it; it would tie our hands, it would tie everyone else's hands.

I love getting presents. And awards. I'd do whatever they told me to do.

We must form men so that they can only will what we wish them to will.

If they give you good words to say, and you don't get in the way of them, you'll be OK.

I always knew who I was, but everyone else wanted to me to be their 'idea' of the 'right' artist. At times, I even believed them.

It can be very lonely knowing that you have things to say but you daren't say them. Knowing that you could contribute to something but you don't dare quite do it.

Because I started at such a young age, I went in with a 'take what comes, do what I'm told' approach.

I think we are all programmed to please as we grow up.

From my childhood, obedience was something I could not get out of my system. When I entered the armed service at the age of twenty-seven, I found being obedient not a bit more difficult than it had been during my life to that point. It was unthinkable that I would not follow orders.

It rubs the lotion on its skin. It does this whenever it is told.

Never let anybody guess that you have a mind of your own. Above all be pure

For those of us who got into good colleges or the professions, did we stand up to that high school history teacher who told us some ridiculous lie about American history and say, "That's a ridiculous lie. You're an idiot"? No. We said, "All right, I'll keep quiet, and I'll write it in the exam and I'll think, yes, he's an idiot." And it's easy to say and believe things that improve your self-image and your career and that are in other ways beneficial to yourselves.

The key to contentment was to never ask why; she had learned that long ago.

Oh, the fools, like a lot of good little schoolboys, scared to death of anything they've been taught is wrong!

I was always on time, I did my work to exact specifications, I spoke when spoken to.

You can only learn what obedience is by obeying

People are submissive to power, and few of them can be influenced by doctrines of righteousness.

Obedience is the psychological mechanism that links individual action to political purpose. It is the dispositional cement that binds men to systems of authority.

The only way you get on in this profession is to have the reputation of doing what you are told as thoroughly as possible.