Conform Quotes

As far as what I do, my value as a writer is certainly not to try to recapitulate a 19th century form. Certain styles of narrative don't conform to my style of experiencing the world.

The most beautiful lives, to my mind, are those that conform to the common human pattern, with order, but without miracle and without eccentricity.

The pressure to conform to an authority figure or peer group can cause people to behave in shocking ways.

The respected intellectuals are those who conform and serve power interests.

The difference between a healthy group or organization and an unhealthy one lies in its members' awareness and ability to acknowledge their felt needs to conform.

A biography is never a biography of one person, of course, but the individual life of your protagonist will never conform. It will always bang up against history.

Build, therefore, your own world. As fast as you conform your life to the pure idea in your mind, that will unfold it's great proportions.

Great intimates conform to you...not you to them

We insist that society should conform to our own subjective illusion of reality.

You don't have to conform to a very specific aesthetic today, whereas 1950s women definitely had to.

Once you have a Down's syndrome child, you can't conform. In a way, you're free.

Little would be wanting to the happiness of life, if every man could conform to the right as soon as he was shown it.

Women punish themselves for the failure to conform.

I've never believed it's really so important that you conform to the ways of the system in order to beat the system. I think that the system follows a great deal.

I just don't conform very well.

The trouble with this world is that everybody has to compromise and conform.

Whoever would fully and feelingly understand the words of Christ, must endeavor to conform his life wholly to the life of Christ.

Human lives seldom conform to the conventions of fiction. Chekhov says that it is in the beginnings and endings of stories that we are most tempted to lie. I know what he means, and I agree.

Sin is any failure to conform to the moral law of God in act, attitude, or nature

An experience, perceptual or conceptual, must conform to reality in order to be true

Society having ordained certain customs, men are bound to obey the law of society, and conform to its harmless orders.

Authority, as you usually think of it, is merely the excuse the strong use to make others conform to what they want.

Most sane human beings who are over the age of six usually act or react not as per what they genuinely feel or really think but in accordance with the expectations of those around them.

Most human beings would have never been pained by the death of a human being if they had never seen a human being or pretending to be pained by that.

Plants are more courageous than almost all human beings: an orange tree would rather die than produce lemons, whereas instead of dying the average person would rather be someone they are not.

Many of the boys and men who are regarded as immature by some females are so deemed merely because they do not want to get married someday … or soon.

A formal education will teach you how to conform with society. Self-education will teach you how to get out of conformity so that you can fill your life with adventure and beauty.

I wonder in what way I would function as a person, in a society without ever attending school. I'd be myself.

Don't hang out with people who are:UngratefulUnhelpfulUnrulyUnkindlyUnlovingUnambitiousUnmotivatedor make you feel...Uncomfortable

If we had to earn our age by thinking for ourselves at least once a year, only a handful of people would reach adulthood.

Most people believe most of the things they believe only because they believe that most people believe them.

I don’t need to conform to your ideas of beauty

If you conform, you miss all of the adventures and stand against the progress of society.

The problem with the ‘herd’ is that our voice is never ‘heard’.

Societal peer pressure to conform runs strong, but as more of us continue to think and act for ourselves, rather than be under the influence of group-think, we begin to make more effective choices.

Many marriages would have been laid to rest a long time ago, if they were not on a life-support machine called other people’s opinions and/or expectations.

Our teaching systems mostly teach us how to conform but not how to reform.

Don’t conform. Don’t live in a small dirty pond when the ocean of life is lovingly inviting you.

If you want to conform, then how can you change?

If I don’t know who I am apart from everyone else, I probably need to spend some time apart from everyone else.

To simply survive appears to be the choice of the plodding hoards that wander all around me. Therefore, I’ve adamantly committed to never hoard hoards.

How can you reform when you are always busy conforming?

If you conform, you can never reform.

Most people do not have a problem with you thinking for yourself, as long as your conclusions are the same as or at least compatible with their beliefs.

We pray that as you walk the paths of life you will walk in ways that are straight with the strength to conform even though those paths be narrow.