Baron Vaughn Quotes

People are so scared to really voice who they are. They want to be politically correct. Just scared to see what other people's perceptions are.

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

I wish I had put myself out there a little bit more and experienced people more instead of protecting myself.

There's a constant anxiety that comes from having an innate sense of self, yet existing within a homogenised, aspirational culture.

I wouldn't say I was bullied per se, but I did get a lot of unwanted attention because I was musical and stood out. In school you don't want to stand out; you want to blend in.

I think it really holds you back having to think about your image.

I think I'm a somewhat nervous bee who just wants to conform. Which, I guess, is common in bees.

When I was younger, out in public, I never wanted to pop my hip and definitely made sure that my wrist was nice and firm. All these silly, prohibitive things.

When I feel really insecure, or I'm in a social situation where I'm nervous about how I come off, or I'm trying to control the situation too much, I literally just try and use the same muscles that I had to use on stage - just paying attention to the other person and trusting yourself to respond as emotionally honestly as possible.

There was so much pressure to fit in, I tried to force myself to be like everyone else. The last thing any teen wants is to be 'uncool.'

I've done a few face palms after things I've said because it's stupid. But if I'm not like that, I won't feel human anymore. I'll just feel like some robot saying what I'm supposed to say. I think that's when people lose it.

As teenagers, we go through social, emotional and physical changes... and sometimes, to feel comfortable, we end up doing things that are not true to who we are just to fit in and feel loved.

Everyone bowed to that unwritten law of family life which ordains that, in the long run, everyone submerges his personal preference in the effort to conform to that of the member of the circle who complains most loudly and is most difficult to satisfy.

The audience works as such a mob. They either all laugh or all don't laugh, and, you know, changes from audience to audience.

We are so ruled by what people tell us we must be that we have forgotten who we are.

Trapped. Sinking. Can't be myself. Made into what other people expect. Is that everyone's fate? Were the great individualists the products of their friends who wanted a great individualist as a friend?

Seems like a lot of my generation as a whole is more concerned with being the cool kid; sarcastic, smug, or just all together impenetrable. So anyway, it's not always comfortable to be like, the dorky, happy girl at the party... but that's me.

Conformity is the ape of harmony.

My mother always told me,”hide your face- people are looking at you”. I would reply,”It does not matter; I am also looking at them.

The reason they want you to fit in... is that once you do, then they can ignore you.

Anybody who told you to be yourself simply couldn't have given you worse advice.

If you are worried about what others might think and about how your position in the group might be jeopardized, then you will never really create anything.

I think that when somebody tells you something of value, a lot of the time there's this thing that happens, and I don't know if you find it, where they go exactly for the word or the moment or the thing that you were hoping they wouldn't notice, or inside didn't feel 100 percent secure about. If they point it out, then that really sends you the message of, "Okay, I was trying to override my own instincts about it, and I guess I shouldn't."

Man's desire for the approval of his fellows is so strong, his dread of their censure so violent, that he himself has brought his enemy (conscience) within his gates; and it keeps watch over him, vigilant always in the interests of its master to crush any half-formed desire to break away from the herd.

To be understood is to prostitute oneself