A person's willingness to conform to arbitrary parameters is not a good criterion for selecting talent or allocating rewards. — Bruce Tulgan Copy Share Image
The state of man's mind, or the elementary phase of mind which he so far possesses, conforms precisely to the state of… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
All new ideas begin in a non-conforming mind that questions some tenet of the conventional wisdom. — Hyman Rickover Copy Share Image
You either go along with the system - conform to what is expected to be a hit - or you have very… — Budd Schulberg Copy Share Image
You can grow up without having to conform, stop going to shows, stop having a record collection, start being politically iffy. — Johnny Marr Copy Share Image
Just as water will conform to the shape of the vessel that contains it, so will a man follow the good and… — Imagawa Sadayo Copy Share Image
Nonconformists travel as a rule in bunches. You rarely find a nonconformist who goes it alone. And woe to him inside a… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
As far as what I do, my value as a writer is certainly not to try to recapitulate a 19th century form.… — Mark Leyner Copy Share Image
The combat environment has the effect of flattening out civilian identities. If you're young or old, or a graduate from Harvard or… — Sebastian Junger Copy Share Image
It is clear that we must embrace struggle. Every living thing conforms to it. Everything in nature grows and struggles in its… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Banks properly established and conducted are highly useful to the business of the country, and will doubtless continue to exist in the… — Martin Van Buren Copy Share Image
If one leads them with administrative measures and uses punishments to make them conform, the people will be evasive, but if one… — Confucius Copy Share Image
Go back to classical times, say classical Greece. Who drank the hemlock? Was it someone who was conforming, obeying the gods? Or… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
My approach to wellbeing is to not be so critical and so hard on myself, and also to not think that I… — Jessica Alba Copy Share Image
Everyone bowed to that unwritten law of family life which ordains that, in the long run, everyone submerges his personal preference in… — Dorothy Canfield Fisher Copy Share Image
“Most people are not even aware of their need to conform. They live under the illusion that they follow their own ideas… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
Also in contemporary Western society the union with the group is the prevalent way of overcoming separateness. It is a union which… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
I really don't watch enough TV to know about the impact. In my experience as a TV writer, I would say is… — A.M. Homes Copy Share Image
For states' rights advocates, the Constitution is like a contract that is openly violated by one party with impunity. On paper, the… — Jonathan Turley Copy Share Image
Only the gospel can truly save you. The gospel doesn't make good people good; it makes dead people alive. That's the difference… — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share Image
It is not strange that some of our revoltes preach trial marriage: for the only safe way to marry them at all… — Katharine Fullerton Gerould Copy Share Image
“To conform is to submit, and to conquer is to conform, to be conquered. Thus every victory is a debasement. The conqueror… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“organizing atheists has been compared to herding cats, because they tend to think independently and will not conform to authority. But a… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
A current pejorative adjective is narcissistic. Generally, a narcissist is anyone better looking than you are, but lately the adective is often… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
“Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind.” — Romans 12 2 NIV translation Copy Share Image
Nature is busy creating absolutely unique individuals, whereas culture has invented a single mold to which all must conform. It is grotesque. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
And what is 'art'? - a firestorm rushing through Time, arising from no visible source and conforming to no principles of logic… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
I don't break the law* made for crooks, when I take away my own property - thus I am not obliged to… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
The objection to conforming to usages that have become dead to you is, that it scatters your force. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A classic is classic not because it conforms to certain structural rules, or fits certain definitions It is classic because of a… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
Unreasonable," "unrealistic," and "impractical" are all words used to marginalize a person or idea that fails to conform with conventionally expected standards. — Chris Guillebeau Copy Share Image
Never give into the world. Do not conform to the worlds expectation of you. Be yourself, do not change a single thing… — Jeremy Limn Copy Share Image
Fathers never have exactly the daughters they want because they invent a notion a them that the daughters have to conform to. — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
Nature does not always conform to our predispositions and preferences, to what we deem comfortable and easy to understand. — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
We all have to fight to maintain our unique style and taste in a world that would have us conform. — Ralph Lauren Copy Share Image
God’s Word has always been His chosen instrument to create, convict, convert, and conform His people. — Mark Dever Copy Share Image
Infancy conforms to nobody: all conform to it, so that one babe commonly makes four or five out of the adults who… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The first five albums I did, I tried a little bit of everything. I was trying not to conform at all. — Carlene Carter Copy Share Image
The Element is about discovering your self, and you can't do this if you're trapped in a compulsion to conform. You can't… — Ken Robinson Copy Share Image
You don't have to conform to a very specific aesthetic today, whereas 1950s women definitely had to. — Romola Garai Copy Share Image
