Don't Conform Quotes

#1. Don't conform for the sake of pleasing others. Mold yourself into the person that you want to be.

Dr. Seuss

#2. In this perfect world, there are certain imperfections that catch your eye. That's what works for me. I don't concentrate on being perfect, but instead put that effort behind my craft and being true to myself. I don't conform to pressures outside of me. I am confident about myself.

Sonakshi Sinha

#3. Our memories are convenient lies we create, cribbing images from others' experiences. We discard the personal specifics which don't conform to the ideal conventional beauty created by art directors and cinematographers.

Damian Loeb

#4. I just don't conform very well.

Shelby Lynne

#5. Whatever you do, be happy with you. Don't conform. You are who you are, and you shouldn't change that for anybody.

Aimee Teegarden

#6. Art frees us from our prejudices and gives us the chance to become our best selves, individuals who dare to dream. And even if those dreams aren't always as pretty as we'd like, or don't conform, or frighten us, it is our duty to encourage art to flourish. All art. Every kind.

M.J. Rose

#7. Don't conform to those who have been overwhelmed by the tide of immorality sweeping our country!

Billy Graham

#8. I always compare marriage to communism. They're both institutions that don't conform to human nature, so you're going to end up with lying and hypocrisy.

Bill Maher

#9. 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

#10. I think it's cool that you care about your heritage, but yet you don't conform. Promise me that no matter what happens, you'll never lose that feisty, impulsive side of you.

Cindi Madsen

#11. 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

#12. I'm sorry I don't conform to your standards of feminine perfection, but I'm quite happy the way I am - anyway, I wasn't born to be buxom.

Lindsay Armstrong

#13. Don't conform. Don't live in a small dirty pond when the ocean of life is lovingly inviting you.

Debasish Mridha

#14. And we'll punish the people who don't conform. Not bodily of course. This is a civilized country.

Lauren Oliver

#15. Real men don't conform to the beliefs of others, even when society has concluded on what is good and true, but maintain the integrity of their own mind.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#16. I am. I'm rude because I don't conform to society's standards that white lies are inconsequential. I don't believe in hiding behind words that aren't truthful. I'm an impatient man. I don't beat around the bush. If you ask me something, I won't lie to you.

Whitney Barbetti

#17. Fairy tales opened up a door into my imagination - they don't conform to the reality that's around you as a child. I started reading when I was three and read everything, but I wanted to be an actress.

Kate Atkinson

#18. If you have your own agenda and your own style and you don't easily conform to what the masses are doing, you're looked upon as being difficult. Whereas, I think of it as just being an individual.

Anita Baker

#19. Our tolerance is part of what makes Britain Britain. So conform to it, or don't come here.

Tony Blair

#20. So, I think there's a danger that good stuff can fall by the wayside if it doesn't conform to formula. But I think it comes down to money and they just don't know where it's going if they haven't got any precedent.

Colin Firth

#21. You're created not to conform. You're unique. Find your lane. No one is like you. Your like never has been made before, will never again...

Assegid Habtewold

#22. You're made aware of what the industry is and what you need to conform to; I don't fit that, and I'm never going to.

Jessie Cave

#23. When the answer doesn't come, it's not supposed to come yet. Don't make eternity try and conform to what you want. That's desire. desire leads to frustration.

Frederick Lenz

#24. The choice is ours: we can keep on craving what we don't have, and so perpetuate our unhappiness, or we can adjust our attitude toward what we do have so that our expectations conform to our experience.

Andrew Weil

#25. Don't rebel against the mainstream only to conform to the underground.

Tomas Kalnoky

#26. I don't do nonfiction anymore. Eventually, you just feel constrained by the facts. You want to go where the words take you, and people's actual lives don't always conform. And you can't know them that well.

Tom Drury

#27. I don't break the law* made for crooks, when I take away my own property - thus I am not obliged to conform to the law made for murderers when I deprive myself of my own life.

Michel De Montaigne

#28. I don't take trouble at all to conform a screenplay to my iconography. I don't say, "We can't do that - the audience wouldn't accept it." I try to take the limitations of what is required to play a leading character and then screw with them.

Harrison Ford

#29. I go out in New York, and I think, boy, you can look at someone and pretty much determine their zip code. Everyone seems to want to conform. I wonder, are they all just button-pressers, on the Internet all day long? I don't know.

Iris Apfel

#30. Through my unique style of playing, I want to prove that you don't have to conform to be accepted. The greatest value comes from loving yourself for who you are.

Lindsey Stirling

#31. Initially, the world forces you to appease it and conform. If you do so, they despise you. If you stick your gun, finally, they will celebrate you. So, don't give in too soon.

Assegid Habtewold

#32. I don't like the idea of fitting into a mould so as to conform. What I like is the danger, the difference - being unpredictable.

Emmanuelle Seigner

#33. Popular kids don't necessarily know who they are because they're so busy trying to conform. It's the outcasts who are more attuned to who they are. They're more self-aware, more real.

Alexandra Robbins

#34. We conform to pain until we don't notice it anymore; it's what you call - numb - and it tragically blots out our pleasure too.

Bryant McGill

#35. We don't come fresh to even the most inaccessible of landscapes.
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We carry expectations and to an extent make what we meet conform to those expectations.
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Robert Macfarlane

#36. People really do change. Don't let anyone tell you differently. That the future does not conform to the past is not the exception, but the rule.

Jonathan Evison

#37. Some people look gender non-conforming because they want to look that way - they don't want to conform to society's expectations.

Caitlyn Jenner

#38. If I don't know who I am apart from everyone else, I probably need to spend some time apart from everyone else.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#39. We are happy when people/things conform and unhappy when they don't. People and events don't disappoint us, our models of reality do. It is my model of reality that determines my happiness or disappointments.

Stefan Zweig

#40. I don't need to conform to your ideas of beauty

Kylie Scott

#41. Madness is a completely undervalued quality and I don't understand why people should hide it to conform to some boring version of themselves.

Christoph Fischer

#42. Don't just conform; ask questions.
Don't just believe if it isn't your truth.
Don't follow dogma; it is blindness.
Just love; don't kill to go to heaven.

Debasish Mridha

#43. You don't have to conform to a very specific aesthetic today, whereas 1950s women definitely had to.

Romola Garai

#44. The answer, The answer, my friend, is not yours to invent or create. It will be decided for you. It is outside you. It is real and objective and firm. One day you will hear it. You don't create it. You don't define it. It comes to you, and sooner or later you conform to it - or bow to it.

John Piper