Seek approval from others or go your own way? Too often these principles are mutually exclusive.
“For the sake of a “correct” reputation, one has to adapt to others, to do what others consider right. That is to say yes to the time. Only for this you often pay with your own essence. I would rather choose my conscience than such a reputation. I would like to live without succumbing to fuss, without adjusting to some format (I hate this concept). For me, external indicators have never been a criterion for the depth of a person. Amount of money. Success is a very modern, vile word that says nothing about the essence of a person. Whether he is smart or stupid, good or evil — with «success» it does not matter at all. I try to resist the general opinion, but I live in this time, and conflicts with it are inevitable. Usually I do not agree to act in bad series. But sometimes you need money. I think of something, I choose the lesser of two evils. Once I chose such an “evil”, but they didn’t take me to that film. It was not possible to violate the principles.»
* Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900), prominent German philosopher. This phrase was preserved in his drafts and sketches in the summer of 1882 (F. Nietzsche, Complete Works in 13 volumes, vol. 10, p. 46. (Cultural Revolution, 2010).