Conform Quotes

If there is anything the nonconformist hates worse than a conformist, it's another nonconformist who doesn't conform to the prevailing standard of nonconformity.

The aim of every authentic artist is not to conform to the history of art, but to release himself from it in order to replace it with his own history.

I'm not going to conform to some consumer need.

It is true that the politician, in his professional character, does not always, or even very often, conform to the most approved pattern of private conduct.

Once conform, once do what other people do because they do it, and a lethargy steals over all the finer nerves and faculties of the soul. She becomes all outer show and inward emptiness; dull, callous, and indifferent.

I was a brownie for a day. My mom made me stop. She didn't want me to conform.

To seek understanding before taking action, yet to trust my instincts when action is called for. Never to avoid danger from fear, never to seek out danger for its own sake. Never to conform to fashion from fear of eccentricity, never to be eccentric from fear of conformity.

Mathematics takes us into the region of absolute necessity, to which not only the actual word, but every possible word, must conform.

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 as they conform to their laws and are found to be safe and beneficial.

I don't subscribe to any particular orthodoxy, so I don't define it and I don't put it into a definition that other people have to conform to. An expression I always use is, there is a God and it's not me.

I did not try to conform to anybody's ideal of what a Latin celebrity or movie star should be. I took a lot of hits for it.

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.

The decree of a coercive tribunal would not need to conform to the true standard of wages, the final productivity of social labor. It would introduce into distribution a genuinely arbitrary element, with a very large ultimate power to pervert the natural system.

Reality does not conform to the ideal, but confirms it.

But these realities will make themselves felt soon enough and while I am certainly not asking you to close your eyes to the experiences of earlier generations, I want to advise you not to conform too soon and to resist the pressure of practical necessity.

It is not the end of the physical body that should worry us. Rather, our concern must be to live while we're alive - to release our inner selves from the spiritual death that comes with living behind a facade designed to conform to external definitions of who and what we are.

Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of man will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice without constraint.

Pop music allows you to be who you are without having to wear a social uniform or to conform, which some people find impossible to do.

I think a lot of people have lost respect for the individual, you know, the individual, the person who doesn't conform.

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.'

Men cannot make Scripture conform to their lifestyle; they must make their lifestyle conform to Scripture.

I know I'm never going to be a big pop star, because I'm not willing to conform.

The biggest risk I've ever taken is going on American Idol and trying to be myself. I wasn't going to try too hard to conform, and I knew that it could possibly not work out.

This is the very devilish thing about foreign affairs: they are foreign and will not always conform to our whim.

The young always have the same problem - how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their parents and copying one another.

Suppose we were able to share meanings freely without a compulsive urge to impose our view or conform to those of others and without distortion and self-deception. Would this not constitute a real revolution in culture.

You either go along with the system - conform to what is expected to be a hit - or you have very tough going.

I'm not going to change the way I look or the way I feel to conform to anything. I've always been a freak. So I've been a freak all my life and I have to live with that, you know. I'm one of those people.

To hard necessity ones will and fancy must conform.

I'd just like to inspire people to be themselves and do what they want and not conform to the rigid guidelines of the music or entertainment business.