Few, if any, survive their teens. Most surrender to the vague but murderous pressure of adult conformity. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
It is the active exercise of our faculties in conformity with virtue that causes happiness, and the opposite activities its opposite. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
...virtue is not merely a state in conformity with the right principle, but one that implies the right principle; and the right… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
“I cannot forget why I am here. I cannot let myself conform to the system. I must be alert. At all times.” — Rebecca Ihim Copy Share Image
The worst curse to befall anyone is stagnation, a banal existence, the quiet desperation that comes out of a need for conformity. — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
Most people do what they do, not because that is what they want, but because other people expect them to do so. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
None can know their election but by their conformity to Christ; for all who are chosen are chosen to sanctification. — Matthew Henry Copy Share Image
The pseudo-conscience ... demands not obedience to the inner law of our being, but conformity to super-imposed convention. — Frances G. Wickes Copy Share Image
The cross stands as a mystery because it is foreign to everything we exalt- self over principle, power over meekness, the quick… — Ravi Zacharias Copy Share Image
I say, when your hair turns gray and your children think they know who you are, do the thing that shakes up… — Jane Smiley Copy Share Image
“I spent most of my life trying to specialize myself. I went to theater school, film school, music school, mime school ...… — Nuno Roque Copy Share Image
You must pay for conformity. All goes well as long as you run with conformists. But you, who are honest men in… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The success of great scholars and thinkers is commonly a courtier-like success, not kingly, not manly. They make shift to live merely… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The three of us [me, Mike Dean, Woody Weatherman] all learned how to play our instruments together. We had a common interest… — Reed Mullin Copy Share Image
Perhaps I am just a hopeless rationalist, but isn't fascination as comforting as solace? Isn't nature immeasurably more interesting for its complexities… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
There's a conformity in the U.S., people feel like they need to fit in. And sure, the trackie stereotype is real, but… — Alex Consani Copy Share Image
“He who joyfully marches to music rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
As for conforming outwardly, and living your own life inwardly, I do not think much of that. Let not your right hand… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
A self that is only differentiated - not integrated - may attain great individual accomplishments, but risks being mired in self-centered egotism.… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
With reason, then, the common opinion of mankind, little affected by the few dissentients who have contended for the opposite view, has… — Pope Leo XIII Copy Share Image
“Ideally, what should be said to every child, repeatedly, throughout his or her school life is something like this: 'You are in… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
The majority of people have successfully alienated themselves from change; they tediously arrange their lives into a familiar pattern, they give themselves… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“[People] ask themselves, what is suitable for my position? What is usually done by persons of my station and percuniary circumstances? Or… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
... although many people say it is a terrible onus to be labeled bad as a child, I thought that the opposite… — Paula Sharp Copy Share Image
See what no one else sees. See what everyone chooses not to see - out of fear, conformity, or laziness. See the… — Patch Adams Copy Share Image
Everyone in the world would say that you have changed a lot, but no one in the world will look into your… — Anurag Prakash Ray Copy Share Image
“Conformity is a type of calm where you hover motionless on the edge of a scream that never comes.” — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
A "Normal" person is the sort of person that might be designed by a committee. You know, "Each person puts in a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Some people wish above all to conform to the rules, I wish only to render what I can hear. — Claude Debussy Copy Share Image
Jobs that require a suit upset me. They displease me much, as our world is rife with such superficial conformity. — Nick Offerman Copy Share Image
“The ways of this world hold nothing for us anymore. Our conformity is over. Transformation must begin.” — Chris Tiegreen Copy Share Image
In these days the young folks is all copy-cats, 'fraid to death they won't be all just alike; as for the old… — Sarah Orne Jewett Copy Share Image
If you can see your path laid out in front of you step by step, you know it's not your path. Your… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
be yourself- not your idea of what you think somebody else's idea of yourself should be. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Companies preach creativity, hire for conformity and call consultants when they fail who tell them to be more creative.” — Richie Norton Copy Share Image
But only in their dreams can men be truly free. It was always thus and always thus will be. — Robin Williams Copy Share Image
Don't change your self for someone, if they don't appreciate the way you are find someone who will... — Cuts And Scars Copy Share Image
“Are you worried you're not like everyone else? Your worries will only worsen when you find that the path to conformity is… — JonArno Lawson Copy Share Image
“I often felt the girls' speech was interchangeable, without any individuality whatsoever, a kind of herd-speak they had all agreed upon.” — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
I have a high state of resentment for the conformity in this country. If you're not married and having children, it's like… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
![“The three of us [me, Mike Dean, Woody Weatherman] all learned how to play our instruments together. We had a common interest in bands like Black Sabbath, Deep Purple. Bands who had different time signatures etc and for whatever reason, we morphed into Corrosion of Conformity. It's been about…” quote by Reed Mullin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c9f/reed-mullin-30464_band_the-three-of-us-me-mike-dean-woody-weath_3109572.jpg)
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