“Everybody had to conform, find a mold to fit into. Doctor, lawyer, soldier -- itdidn't matter what it was. Once in the mold you had to push forward. Sussex was as helpless as thenext man. Either you managed to do something or you starved in the streets.”
“If you reshape yourself to fit a mold, then you are no longer an original work of art.”
“Be grateful that your righteous life molds you so that you don’t fit where you don’t belong”
“Every decision we make in our life, forwhatever reason we make it, molds us as who we are. What matters is what you do with it.”
“No matter what your profession – doctor, lawyer, architect, accountant – if you are an American, you better be good at the touchy-feely service stuff, because anything that can be digitized can be outsourced to either the smartest or the cheapest producer.”
“Comparing yourself to others does nothing for you. Society has conditioned us to value people who fit a secular mold of perfection".”