John Stockton Quotes

I'd never jump on a bandwagon; sometimes people do that and it's not what I wanted to do.

Why do you have to be a nonconformist like everybody else?

I have a suspicion of lockstep and everyone looking in the same direction: that's a key character trait in me.

Those who follow the crowd usually get lost in it.

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.

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

Everybody wants to be like everybody else.

As far as things I avoid, I always avoid following trends just because they're trends.

Teach him to think for himself? Oh, my God, teach him rather to think like other people!

Everything popular is wrong.

Here is a man with the greatest intellect in Europe, and yet he debases it by simply following majorities and the crowd.

It is long since I have learned to hold popular opinion of no value.

The enemy of individuality is groupthink.

How can we choose to selectively follow what we find comfortable and attack anybody who tries to break free from the norms that we choose to set?

Conformity is dangerous.

We were born in this society, we grew up in this society. And we learn to be like everyone else, playing nonsense all the time.

If the reason for doing something is that everyone else is doing it, it's not a good enough reason.

Be one of the crowd? It went against everything a wizard stood for, and a wizard would not stand for anything if he could sit down for it, but even sitting down, you had to stand out.

Because other people are fools, must you be so too?

Following the herd is fine, until they all run off the side of a cliff together.

Many things that come into the world are not looked into. The individual says 'My crowd doesn't run that way.' I say, don't run with crowds.

Never follow a follower who is following someone who has fallen. Its why the whole world is falling apart.

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.