Conform Quotes - Page 13

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

  Tennessee Williams

  World, Compromise, Trouble

  Tennessee Williams (1967). “One Arm and Other Stories”, p.122, New Directions Publishing

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• Majority decisions tend to be made without engaging the systematic thought and critical thinking skills of the individuals in the group. Given the force of the group's normative power to shape the opinions of the followers who conform without thinking things through, they are often taken at face value. The persistent minority forces the others to process the relevant information more mindfully. Research shows that the deciscions of a group as a whole are more thoughtful and creative when there is minority dissent than when it is absent.

  Philip Zimbardo

  Taken, Thoughtful, Thinking

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• Introversion- along with its cousins sensitivity, seriousness, and shyness- is now a second-class personality trait, somewhere between a disappointment and a pathology. Introverts living in the Extrovert Ideal are like women in a man's world, discounted because of a trait that goes to the core of who they are. Extroversion is an enormously appealing personality style, but we've turned it into an oppressive standard to which most of us feel we must conform.

  Susan Cain

  Cousin, Disappointment, Class

  Susan Cain (2012). “Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking”, p.12, Penguin UK

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• Being female in this world means having been robbed of the potential for human choice by men who love to hate us. One does does not make choices in freedom. Instead, one conforms in body type and behavior and values to become an object of male sexual desire, which requires an abandonment of a wide-ranging capacity for choice... Men too make choices. When will they choose not to despise us?

  Andrea Dworkin

  Hate, Mean, Men

  Andrea Dworkin (2008). “Intercourse”, p.134, Hachette UK

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• The human mind had a remarkable ability both to discount what it sees and make reality conform to expectation.

  Cinda Williams Chima

  Reality, Expectations, Mind

  Cinda Williams Chima (2011). “The Warrior Heir”, p.152, Hachette UK

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• No emotion is, in itself, a judgement; in that sense all emotions and sentiments are alogical. but they can be reasonable or unreasonable as they conform to Reason or fail to conform. The heart never takes the place of the head: but it can, and should, obey it.

  C. S. Lewis

  Heart, Judgement, Emotion

  C.S. Lewis (1996). “Joyful Christian”, p.15, Simon and Schuster

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• I'm not going to conform, and hurt myself, and do something crazy to be a size 2.

  Amber Riley

  Beauty, Hurt, Crazy

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• History is the torch that is meant to illuminate the past, to guard us against the repetition of our mistakes of other days. We cannot join in the rewriting of history to make it conform to our comfort and convenience.

  Claude Bowers

  Mistake, Writing, Past

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• The idea of having to conform to someone else's ideal is unacceptable. I'm gonna be me. And if I can't be me, then I'd rather not do it.

  Lenny Kravitz

  Music, Ideas, Ideals

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• Dancing is, in itself, a very trifling and silly thing: but it is one of those established follies to which people of sense are sometimes obliged to conform; and then they should be able to do it well. And though I would not have you a dancer, yet, when you do dance, I would have you dance well, as I would have you do everything you do well.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Dance, Silly, People

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• Worship without wonder is lifeless and boring. Many have lost their sense of awe and amazement when it comes to God. Having begun with the arrogant presumption of knowing about God all that one can, they reduce Him to manageable terms and confine Him to a tidy theological box, the dimensions of which conform to their predilections of what a god ought to be and do.

  Sam Storms

  Knowing, Arrogant, Dimensions

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• The greatest action is not conforming with the worlds ways.

  Gautama Buddha

  Integrity, Buddhism, World

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• When you're always trying to conform to the norm, you lose your uniqueness, which can be the foundation for your greatness.

  Dale Archer

  Inspiring, Motivation, Greatness

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• All new ideas begin in a non-conforming mind that questions some tenet of the conventional wisdom.

  Hyman Rickover

  Creativity, Ideas, Mind

  United States. Congress. Joint Economic Committee, Hyman George Rickover (1982). “Economics of Defense Policy: Adm. H.G. Rickover : Hearing Before the Joint Economic Committee, Congress of the United States, Ninety-seventh Congress, Second Session”

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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 my own world.

  Bijan

  World, Compromise, Settling

  "Fashion Legend Bijan Pakzad Dies" by Annie Yuan, www.hollywoodreporter.com. April 16, 2011.

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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 don't demand loyalty, they can't keep their civilization together. So what they do is they teach things that would support an established system. We do not advocate an established system. TVP talks of an emergent system into state of change. So that we always prepare people for the next changes coming ahead. So that people will not cling to the past.

  Jacque Fresco

  Loyalty, Past, Civilization

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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 existing; but that is not living...To live is to find out for yourself what is true.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Life, Teacher, Parent

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• What you really have to do, if you want to be creative, is to unlearn all the teasing and censoring that you've experienced throughout your life. If you are truly a creative person, you know that feeling insecure and lonely is par for the course. You can't have it both ways: You can't be creative and conform, too. You have to recognize that what makes you different also makes you creative.

  Arno Allan Penzias

  Lonely, Encouragement, Insecure

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• 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 not sow

  Saadi

  Learning, Men, Life Is Like

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• To conform within rational limits to a given style is no more servile than to pay one's taxes or to write according to the rule of grammar.

  Elsie de Wolfe

  Writing, Design, Style

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• You are either in the Word and the Word is conforming you to the image of Jesus Christ, or you are in the world and the world is squeezing you into its mold.

  Howard G. Hendricks

  Jesus, Mold, World

  Howard G. Hendricks, William D. Hendricks (2007). “Living By the Book/Living By the Book Workbook Set”, p.6, Moody Publishers

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• It Bible opens up the doors in your life, and provides a purifying dynamic to help you clean out sin and learn to conform to God's will.

  Howard G. Hendricks

  Doors, Helping, Study

  Howard G. Hendricks, William D. Hendricks (2007). “Living By the Book: The Art and Science of Reading the Bible”, p.17, Moody Publishers

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• We have voluntarily agreed to let an invisible government sift the data and high-spot the outstanding issues so that our field of choice shall be narrowed to practical proportions. From our leaders and the media they use to reach the public, we accept the evidence and the demarcation of issues bearing upon public questions; from some ethical teacher, be it a minister, a favorite essayist, or merely prevailing opinion, we accept a standardized code of social conduct to which we conform most of the time.

  Edward Bernays

  Leadership, Teacher, Issues

  Edward Bernays (2017). “Propaganda”, p.5, Lulu.com

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• For the wise men of old, the cardinal problem of human life was how to conform the soul to objective reality, and the solution was wisdom, self-discipline, and virtue. For the modern, the cardinal problem is how to conform reality to the wishes of man, and the solution is a technique.

  Peter Kreeft

  Wise, Men, Reality

  Peter Kreeft (1992). “Back to Virtue: Traditional Moral Wisdom for Modern Moral Confusion”, p.22, Ignatius Press

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• Either we conform our desires to the truth or we conform the truth to our desires.

  Os Guinness

  Desire

  Os Guinness (2002). “Time for Truth: Living Free in a World of Lies, Hype, and Spin”, Baker Books

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