Cory Lidle Quotes

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.

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

A big element of what they regard as conformity is simply a desire to have an audience.

Most people live their life around what other people do.

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

All I want to do is be normal. But really, it's other people who won't let me be that way.

I felt that there were so many people doing it that I would just be like one of the others.

When all run by common consent into vice, none appear to do so.

When in doubt, look at what everyone else is doing.

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

I just feel like in society and in public, we have this unspoken expectation that we're all trying to meet. And there's so much pressure to try to fit in.

I so desperately wanted to fit in. There was a trajectory, and obviously, our society tells us that you go to high school, you graduate, and then you go to college, and from there, you get an internship, you get a job, and some people study abroad, and there are so many things you see that you desperately want to be a part of.

People say things they'll never do but then do them because they want to be a part of 'this great thing.'

When we find ourselves in groups or with charismatic individuals, we might do things we wouldn't ordinarily do.

I think that we all desperately try to fit in to different molds: our parents, our bosses, our partners, social status, friends. We all figure out a look that we think will get us the job or make his parents approve of us or get that girl to want to go on a date, whatever. We all change ourselves to please whoever it is.

There are many people for whom 'thinking' necessarily means identifying with existing trends.

Wonderful Force of Public Opinion! We must act and walk in all points as it prescribes; follow the traffic it bids us, realize the sum of money, the degree of influence it expects of us, or we shall be lightly esteemed; certain mouthfuls of articulate wind will be blown at us, and this what mortal courage can front?

Men are sheep. Where one goes, the rest will soon follow. -Lady Whistledown

We are discreet sheep; we wait to see how the drove is going, and then go with the drove.

For a woman a man will do many things that he'd turn his back on in an instant when alone; things he'd back away from, nine times out of ten, even when drunk adn with a bunch of his friends egging him on.

I decide to do what I always do when I'm not sure what's going on: I act like everyone else.

Herd pressure is to be judged by two things: first, its intensity, and second, its direction.

All isolation is wrong so say the herd. And long didst thou belong to the herd.

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.

Conformity is inevitable when folks huddle together in rebellion.