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“In a society of ideological believers, nothing is more ridiculous than the individual who doubts and does not conform.”

Doe Individual Doubt Believer Ridiculous Conform Ideological

Book:The Unconscious Civilization

Source: The Unconscious Civilization

“The subordinate's job is not to reform or reeducate the boss, not to make him conform to what the business schools or the management book say bosses should be like. It is to enable a particular boss to perform as a unique individual.”

Should Book School Jobs Individual Particular Unique Management Reform Boss Conform Subordinates Business School Unique Individuals

Author:Peter Drucker

“Pseudo-modernists pursue individual style because they know they cannot make a name without it; but if they had lived in the eighteenth century their sole object would have been to write correctly, to conform to the manner of the period. In practice, their conforming individualism means an imitation, studiously concealed, of the eccentricities of poems which really are individual.”

Ifs Knows Writing Mean Has Beens Names Individual Practice Century Style Objects Periods Pursue Individualism Sole Imitation Conform Concealed Eccentricity Pseudo Individual Style

Author:Laura Riding

“Education, and the life of the mind generally, is a matter in which individual initiative is the chief thing needed; the function of the state should begin and end with insistence on some kind of education, and, if possible, a kind which promotes mental individualism, not a kind which happens to conform to the prejudices of government officials.”

Source: Pacifism and Revolution, 1916-18

“Traditionally, the role of the individual was to conform to the organization. In the future the organization will have to conform to the needs of the individual.”

Needs Individual Roles Organization Conform

Book:Body and soul: profits with principles, the amazing success story of Anita Roddick & the Body Shop

Source: Body and soul: profits with principles, the amazing success story of Anita Roddick & the Body Shop

“Unhealthy families discourage individual expression. Everyone must conform to the thoughts and actions of the toxic parents. They promote fusion, a blurring of personal boundaries, a welding together of family members. On an unconscious level, it is hard for family members to know where one ends and another begins. In their efforts to be close, they often suffocate one another's individuality.”