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Conform Quotes
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. - Harold Rosenberg Quotes
Reality does not conform to the ideal, but confirms it. - Gustave Flaubert Quotes
We will discover the nature of our particular genius when we stop trying to conform to our own or to other peoples models, learn to be ourselves, and allow our natural channel to open. - Shakti Gawain Quotes
It is not the end of the physical body that should worry us. Rather, our concern must be to live while were 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. - Elisabeth Kubler Ross Quotes
If there is anything the nonconformist hates worse than a conformist, its another nonconformist who doesnt conform to the prevailing standard of nonconformity. - Bill Vaughan Quotes
I cannot make the universe obey me. I cannot make other people conform to my own whims and fancies. I cannot make even my own body obey me. - Thomas Merton Quotes
This is the very devilish thing about foreign affairs: they are foreign and will not always conform to our whim. - James Reston Quotes
Id 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. - Juliana Hatfield Quotes
This is the devilish thing about foreign affairs: they are foreign and will not always conform to our whim. - James Reston Quotes
Although images of perfection in peoples personal lives can cause unhappiness, images of perfect societies - utopian images - can cause monstrous evil. In fact, forcefully changing society to conform to societal images was the greatest cause of evil in the twentieth century. - Dennis Prager Quotes
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. - Felix Bloch Quotes
Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of men will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice, without constraint. - Alexander Hamilton Quotes
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. - Steven Brust Quotes
Some people wish above all to conform to the rules, I wish only to render what I can hear. There is no theory. You have only to listen. Pleasure is the law. - Claude Debussy Quotes
Science ... warns me to be careful how I adopt a view which jumps with my preconceptions, and to require stronger evidence for such belief than for one to which I was previously hostile. My business is to teach my aspirations to conform themselves to fact, not to try and make facts harmonize with my aspirations. - Thomas H Huxley Quotes
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. - Quentin Crisp Quotes
Im not going to change the way I look or the way I feel to conform to anything. Ive always been a freak. So Ive been a freak all my life and I have to live with that, you know. Im one of those people. - John Lennon Quotes
You either go along with the system - conform to what is expected to be a hit - or you have very tough going. - Budd Schulberg Quotes
When I conform to truth, I do not conform to an abstract principle; I conform to the nature of God. - Kenneth L Pike Quotes
If we see to it that wages conform to the final productivity of social labor, we should see to it that trusts do not lower that standard. - John Bates Clark Quotes
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. - Martin Van Buren Quotes
Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of man will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice without constraint. - Alexander Hamilton Quotes
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. - John Bates Clark Quotes
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. - David Bohm Quotes
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