Conform Quotes - Page 15

• People have Plato's form in their mind of what a leader is, or what a C.E.O. is, and it is a bunch of elements that I really don't conform to at all. I've given this a lot of thought, and I came to the conclusion that I don't care.

  Dick Costolo

  Plato, People, Leader

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• When I was a kid, I was afraid of large group of conforming people.

  Sean Durkin

  Kids, People, Groups

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I'm not saying that atheists can't act morally or have moral knowledge. But when I ascribe virtue to an atheist, it's as a theist who sees the atheist as conforming to objective moral values. The atheist, by contrast, has no such basis for morality. And yet all moral judgments require a basis for morality, some standard of right and wrong.

  William A. Dembski

  Atheist, Morality, Judgment

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• The sense of community does not arise out of collective movement, nor from conforming to some group direction. Quite the contrary. Each individual tends to use the opportunity to become all that he or she can become. Separateness and diversity - the uniqueness of being "me" - are experienced

  Carl Rogers

  Life, Opportunity, Diversity

  Carl Ransom Rogers (1995). “A Way of Being”, p.190, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I personally believe that any country that has a nuclear program should conform to international regulations and should have international regulatory bodies that check to make sure that any nuclear program moves in the right direction.

  Abdallah II

  Country, Believe, Moving

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• But for everyone, I think, there is always a pressure to conform, and I guess as you get older you realize it's less interesting to do that. It starts with you, though, saying, 'I know what I like doing and that's what I'm going to do.

  Felicity Jones

  Thinking, Interesting, Pressure

  "Felicity Jones and the buzz about Hysteria". Interview With Emine Saner, www.theguardian.com. September 10, 2012.

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• As far as what I do, my value as a writer is certainly not to try to recapitulate a 19th century form. Certain styles of narrative don't conform to my style of experiencing the world.

  Mark Leyner

  Style, Trying, World

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• The world is too big and too intricate to conform to our ideas of what it should be like... Just because we invent myths and theories to explain away the chaos we're still going to live in a world that's older and more complicated than we'll ever understand.

  Moby

  Ideas, World, Ontology

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• The idea of old was to conform yourself to a style of cooking, it was not to create a style of cooking. Now the chef is so much into 'I want to sign that dish and say I am the one who made that dish.

  Jacques Pepin

  Ideas, Cooking, Style

  "Jacques Pepin: Consumers May Pay Price Of Chefs’ Fame" By J.M. HIRSCH, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 3, 2011.

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• I'm really happy to be me, and I'd like to think people like me more because I'm happy with myself and not because I refuse to conform to anything.

  Adele

  Thinking, People, Really Happy

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• Whoever would fully and feelingly understand the words of Christ, must endeavor to conform his life wholly to the life of Christ.

  Thomas a Kempis

  Christ, Endeavor

  St. Augustine, Dr. Howard Taylor, Mrs. Howard Taylor, Apostolic Fathers, J. Oswald Sanders (2010). “Moody Classics Complete Set: Includes 19 Classics of the Faith in a Single Volume”, p.1510, Moody Publishers

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• The subordinate's job is not to reform or reeducate the boss, not to make him conform to what the business schools or the management book say bosses should be like. It is to enable a particular boss to perform as a unique individual.

  Peter Drucker

  Jobs, Book, School

  "Managing for the Future: The 1990's and Beyond". Book by Peter F. Drucker, 1992.

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• We all have a tendency to think that the world must conform to our prejudices. The opposite view involves some effort of thought, and most people would die sooner than think in fact they do so.

  Bertrand Russell

  Thinking, Views, Opposites

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “Mortals and Others”, p.6, Routledge

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• About the only time Congress conforms to the will of the people is when it decides to adjourn.

  Evan Esar

  People, Congress, Only Time

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• Pseudo-modernists pursue individual style because they know they cannot make a name without it; but if they had lived in the eighteenth century their sole object would have been to write correctly, to conform to the manner of the period. In practice, their conforming individualism means an imitation, studiously concealed, of the eccentricities of poems which really are individual.

  Laura Riding

  Writing, Mean, Practice

  "A Survey of Modernist Poetry". Book by Laura Riding, 1927.

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• Any artistic achievement that is tailored to conform to social demands rather than to the real, uninhibited, feelings of its creator, is destined not to reach the heights of achievement, or even fail. It is only when an artist is dis-inhibited that he or she can reach the heights of artistic achievement.

  Semir Zeki

  Real, Artist, Achievement

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• If, occasionally, historical evidence does not square with formulated laws, it should be remembered that a law is but a deduction from experience and experiment, and therefore laws must conform with historical facts, not facts with laws.

  Immanuel Velikovsky

  Squares, Law, Historical

  Immanuel Velikovsky (1966). “Worlds in Collision”, p.19, Paradigma Ltd

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• Life is not a search for experience, but for ourselves. Having discovered our own fundamental level we realize that it conforms to our own destiny and we find peace.

  Cesare Pavese

  Destiny, Fundamentals, Levels

  Cesare Pavese (1961). “The Burning Brand: Diaries 1935-1950”, New York : Walker

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• I thought my friends were damn fools, because they didn't know any better way of conducting their lives. Still they conformed better than I to a code. I wanted to conform but I couldn't so I wrote my poetry.

  William Carlos Williams

  Way, Fool, Conducting

  William Carlos Williams, A. Walton Litz, Christopher John MacGowan (1986). “The Collected Poems of William Carlos Williams: 1909-1939”, p.483, New Directions Publishing

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• People Propose, Science Studies, Technology Conforms.

  Donald A. Norman

  Technology, People, Study

  "Things That Make Us Smart". Book by Don Norman, www.theguardian.com. 1993.

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• The male dares to be different to the degree that he accepts his passivity and his desire to be female, his fagginess. The farthest out male is the dragqueen, but he, although different from most men, is exactly like all other dragqueens; like the functionalist, he has an identity - a female; he tries to define all his troubles away - but still no individuality. Not completely convinced that he's a woman, highly insecure about being sufficiently female, he conforms compulsively to the man-made feminine stereotype, ending up as nothing but a bundle of stilted mannerisms.

  Valerie Solanas

  Insecure, Men, Individuality

  Valerie Solanas (1971). “SCUM manifesto”

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• Human beings today are surrounded by huge institutions we can never penetrate: the City, the banking system, political and advertising conglomerates, vast entertainment enterprises. They've made themselves user friendly, but they define the tastes to which we conform. They're rather subtle, subservient tyrants, but no less sinister for that.

  J. G. Ballard

  Wall, Cities, Tyrants

  "A User's Guide to the Millennium". Book by J. G. Ballard, 1996.

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• The images selected by memory are as arbitrary, as narrow, as elusive as those which the imagination had formed and reality has destroyed. There is no reason why, existing outside ourselves, a real place should conform to the pictures in our memory rather than those in our dreams.

  Marcel Proust

  Dream, Memories, Real

  Marcel Proust (2000). “In Search of Lost Time, Volume IV: Sodom and Gomorrah (A Modern Library E-Book)”, p.191, Modern Library

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• Standardized personality differences between the sexes are of this order, cultural creations to which each generation, male and female, is trained to conform.

  Margaret Mead

  Sex, Order, Differences

  "Sex and Temperament in Three Primitive Societies". Book by Margaret Mead, p. 48, 1935.

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• Each man in his life honors, and imitates as well as he can, that god to whose choir he belonged, while he is uncorrupted in his first incarnation here; and in the fashion he has thus learned, he bears himself to his beloved as well as to the rest. So, then, each chooses from among the beautiful a love conforming to his kind, and then, as if his chosen were his god, he sets him up and robes him for worship.

  Mary Renault

  Beautiful, Fashion, Men

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