Conform Quotes
336 quotes by 278 authors
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I do not think we will see a stateless society in my lifetime. But I am sure we will not see a state that conforms…
— Anthony Gregory
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Actually, however, life begins less by reaching upward, than by turning upon itself. But what a marvelously insidious, subtle image of life a coiling vital…
— Gaston Bachelard
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The world said to conform, the world said to settle for less, the world said to compromise and no one would know... so I made…
— Unknown Author
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Our dangers, as it seems to me, are not from the outrageous but from the conforming; not from those who rarely and under the lurid…
— Learned Hand
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A healthy church is not a church that's perfect and without sin. It has not figured everything out. Rather, it's a church that continually strives…
— Mark Dever
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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 be yourself in…
— Ken Robinson
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Our desire to conform is greater than our respect for objective facts.
— Margaret Drabble
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Try becoming a person people want to be with rather than conforming yourself to the false identity of what you conceive their ideal to be.
— An Na
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No attempt to explain the world, either scientifically or theologically, can be considered successful until it accounts for the paradoxical conjunction of the temporal and…
— Paul Davies
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The concept of an education centered upon the care of the living being alters all previous ideas. Resting no longer on a curriculum, or a…
— Maria Montessori
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At every point I am besieged by people who would like me to conform to some social norm of whatever sort of social group they…
— Sean Parker
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Modern research divides nature into tiny pieces and conducts tests that conform neither with natural law nor with practical experience. The results are arranged for…
— Masanobu Fukuoka
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Every system tries to get people to conform to support that system. That goes for communism, socialism, free enterprise, or any other civilization. If they…
— Jacque Fresco
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Banks properly established and conducted are highly useful to the business of the country, and will doubtless continue to exist in the States so long…
— Martin Van Buren
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My elaboration of the story always conforms to the reality at its source. It is always close to the world, the life, the reality it…
— Gustaw Herling-Grudzinski
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I want to prove that you don't have to conform to be accepted. The greatest Value comes from loving yourself for who you are.
— Lindsey Stirling
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Women punish themselves for the failure to conform.
— Sandra Bartky
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The objection to conforming to usages that have become dead to you is, that it scatters your force.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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It's easy to assume people are conforming when we witness them all choosing the same option, but when we choose that very option ourselves, we…
— Sheena Iyengar
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It is very easy to conform to what your society or your parents and teachers tell you. That is a safe and easy way of…
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
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