Ultraconformists Quotes

#1. Most of us are 'ultraconformists' when it comes to who we are most likely to follow ... to socialise with, or even who we are most likely to hire.

Noreena Hertz

#2. The ancient bitter opposition to improved methods [of production] on the ancient theory that it more than temporarily deprives men of employment ... has no place in the gospel of American progress.

Herbert Hoover

#3. An excellent weapon and luck had been on my side. To be successful, the best fighter pilot needs both.

Adolf Galland

#4. Every time a baseball player grabs his crotch, it makes him spit. That's why you should never date a baseball player.

Marsha Warfield

#5. I want to create situations that give people something to think about.

Charlie Kaufman

#6. Politicians pay more attention to interest groups than to the public interest.

Alice Rivlin

#7. The most trying moments in human experience were those in which there was nothing to be done except to wait.

Patricia Wentworth

#8. Young man, your problem and the reason so many like you fail, is simply because you allow yourself to give up far too early.

Chris Murray

#9. Every word which is used to express a moral or intellectual fact, if traced to its root, is found to be borrowed from some material appearance.

Ralph Waldo Emerson