Conforming Quotes

58 quotes by 54 authors

I would sum up my fear about the future in one word: boring. And that's my one fear: that everything has happened; nothing exciting or… — J. G. Ballard
I don't care much about conforming. — Mayim Bialik
Born in other countries, yet believing you could be happy in this, our laws acknowledge, as they should do, your right to join us in… — Thomas Jefferson
In civilized communities men's idiosyncrasies are mitigated by the necessity of conforming to certain rules of behavior. Culture is a mask that hides their faces. — W. Somerset Maugham
God never allows pain without a purpose in the lives of His children. He never allows Satan, nor circumstances, nor any ill-intending person to afflict… — Jerry Bridges
Whenever you're unhappy, your emotions are telling you that the people or things around you are not conforming to your vision of the world, or… — Ken Keyes Jr.
Beware of charisma . . . Representative Men; was Ralph Waldo Emerson's 1850 phrase for the great men in a democracy . . . Is… — Daniel J. Boorstin
Integrity is conforming reality to our words - in other words, keeping promises and fulfilling expectations. — Stephen Covey
If you truly expect to realize your dreams, abandon the need for blanket approval. If conforming to everyone's expectations is the number one goal, you… — Hope Solo
Mad; adj. Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence; not conforming to standards of thought, speech, and action derived by the conformants from study… — Ambrose Bierce
I dyed my hair about 42 different colours, and kids can be pretty judgmental about people who are different. But instead of breaking down and… — Christina Hendricks
For states' rights advocates, the Constitution is like a contract that is openly violated by one party with impunity. On paper, the states remain sovereign… — Jonathan Turley
The greatest action is not conforming with the worlds ways. — Gautama Buddha
All new ideas begin in a non-conforming mind that questions some tenet of the conventional wisdom. — Hyman Rickover
Abnormal, adj. Not conforming to standard. In matters of thought and conduct, to be independent is to be abnormal, to be abnormal is to be… — Ambrose Bierce
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
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
The objection to conforming to usages that have become dead to you is, that it scatters your force. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
He who learns the rules of wisdom, without conforming to them in his life, is like a man who labored in his fields, but did… — Saadi

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