Pooja Bhatt Quotes

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

It is hard to be an individual in Japan.

I'm not a follower. I'm a leader. And anyone who speaks their mind is always criticised.

Conformity is the ape of harmony.

Never give in to peer pressure, especially if the peer is not attractive.

Hardly a man in the world has an opinion upon morals, politics or religion which he got otherwise than through his associations and sympathies. Broadly speaking, there are none but corn-pone opinions. And broadly speaking, Corn-Pone stands for Self-Approval. Self-approval is acquired mainly from the approval of other people. The result is Conformity.

Be confident, and just do it. It's all about not questioning what everyone else is thinking, since they're probably looking to others to know what is or isn't cool.

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.

I like to think I'm quite brave. I stand up for myself.

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

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

I think a lot of young kids at school are very conscious of trying to keep credibility in case they kind of stand out in a crowd and get bullied by trying to stay cool and stuff. And my whole thing, all the way through school, was I was just a goof... I didn't care.

When I first got into the league, I tried to fit in. Now I don't care.

Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the dangers of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of 'crackpot' than the stigma of conformity. And on issues that seem important to you, stand up and be counted at any cost.

I've never been cool and I don't really care about being cool. It's just an awful lot of time and hair gel wasted.

Most people suspend their judgment till somebody else has expressed his own and then they repeat it.

I didn't want to wear a checked shirt and grow a mustache - that's what you had to do, and everyone did.

I learned to stand up for myself at school where I was never too popular.

A fashionable milieu is one in which everybody's opinion is made up of the opinion of all the others. Has everybody a different opinion? Then it is a literary milieu.

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

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.

I try so hard to be true to myself. I hope I can help other girls realize that they don't have to do things just because everyone else is doing them.

If I gave a damn what other people think of me, I would be more like other people.

What concerns me, is the general social tendency to enforce a level, above which nothing rises and stands out.

Everybody wants to be like everybody else.