Quotes About Conforming

#1. I fervently believe that people shouldn't stay in bad relationships just because of some artificial rom-com notion of true love being "forever." In fact, I think that the pressure of conforming to that framework ruins-literally RUINS-a lot of people's lives.

Lindy West

#2. I am a person who believes in asking questions, in not conforming for the sake of conforming. I am deeply dissatisfied - about so many things, about injustice, about the way the world works - and in some ways, my dissatisfaction drives my storytelling.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

#3. Behavior makes sense from the actor's perception or else the actor wouldn't do it. Nobody wakes up in the morning and says, you know, today I'm going to be conforming, mistaken, nasty, and so on.

Ellen J. Langer

#4. I dyed my hair about 42 different colours, and kids can be pretty judgmental about people who are different. But instead of breaking down and conforming, I stood firm. That is also probably why I was unhappy.

Christina Hendricks

#5. A closed conforming society is a sick society waiting to die from stagnation and inner illness. Only openness is the treatment.

Debasish Mridha

#6. Your behavior isn't conforming to your known psychological profile.

Nalini Singh

#7. Whenever you're unhappy, your emotions are telling you that the people or things around you are not conforming to your vision of the world, or the way you think things should be.

Ken Keyes Jr.

#8. I don't care much about conforming.

Mayim Bialik

#9. Be free! Get out of your prison of conforming thoughts.

Debasish Mridha

#10. When I grew up in the '60s, we were actually dominated by this, you know, sort of conforming '50s culture, even though we were like trying to express our own culture, like, the dominant culture was the thing that was forming us. And I think that that's true today.

Gus Van Sant

#11. Freedom consists of conforming to the will of the majority.

Julian Barnes

#12. Children are simultaneously required to constitute themselves as autonomous subjects, responsible, free and conscious, and to constitute themselves as submissive, inert, obedient, conforming objects.

Jean Baudrillard

#13. All the great captains have performed vast achievements by conforming with the rules of art
by adjusting efforts to obstacles.

Napoleon Bonaparte

#14. When I first started, the very first body of music I made when I got signed to Atlantic were songs with titles like 'Unify' and 'You're Special.' And there's this song that reminds me of Meghan Trainor that I wrote, about a woman's body and not conforming, when I first started in music.

Wynter Gordon

#15. As to conforming outwardly and living your own life inwardly, I do not think much of that.

Henry David Thoreau

#16. God is more concerned with conforming me to the likeness of His Son than leaving me in my comfort zones. God is more interested in inward qualities than outward circumstances - things like refining my faith, humbling my heart, cleaning up my thought life and strengthening my character.

Joni Eareckson Tada

#17. This, and this alone, is Christianity, a universal holiness in every part of life, a heavenly wisdom in all our actions, not conforming to the spirit and temper of the world but turning all worldly enjoyments into means of piety and devotion to God.

William Law

#18. I force myself to contradict myself in order to avoid conforming to my own taste.

Marcel Duchamp

#19. It's not the 'nice' guy who brings about real social change. 'Nice' guys look nice because they're conforming. It's the 'bad' guys, who only look nice a hundred years later, that are the real Dynamic force in social evolution.

Robert M. Pirsig

#20. 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

#21. Civilization means conforming to a standard of behavior that may not seem natural to us.

Andy Rooney

#22. God can use the ordinary moments in your life to glorify himself by conforming you into the image of his Son. That is precisely what he intends to do.

Gloria Furman

#23. Why does your mind conform? Have you ever asked? Are you aware that you are conforming to a pattern? It doesn't matter what that pattern is, whether you have established a pattern for yourself or it has been established for you.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

#24. I would sum up my fear about the future in one word: boring. And that's my one fear: that everything has happened; nothing exciting or new or interesting is ever going to happen again ... the future is just going to be a vast, conforming suburb of the soul

J.G. Ballard

#25. God has called His creation to find satisfaction in a personal relationship with Him, and stop trying to manage the world by conforming it to our expectations, and to allow Him to govern His creation. He continues to say through an ancient Hebrew worship song, Be still and know that I am God!

Charles R. Swindoll

#26. Find the window of unconditional love in your heart and liberate yourself from the prison of judgemental and conforming thoughts.

Debasish Mridha

#27. Law Number XXXVI: The thickness of the proposal required to win a multimillion dollar contract is about one millimeter per million dollars. If all the proposals conforming to this standard were piled on top of each other at the bottom of the Grand Canyon it would probably be a good idea.

Norman Ralph Augustine

#28. In yielding we are like the water, by nature placid, conforming to the hollow of the smallest hand; in time, shaping even the mountains to its will. Thus we keep duty and honor. We cherish clan and civilization. We are Chinese.

Bette Lord

#29. You've got these big studio films and these tiny independent films now. It's very much either/or. With the independent films, it's always a beautiful risk - it might never be seen. With the studio films, you're conforming to the formula of what's always been in place.

Imogen Poots

#30. There is nothing mixed up about a woman who loves women, who wants to have sex with them, or who identifies as a lesbian. It is society that is mixed up because it punishes people for not conforming to its gender stereotypes.

Edward Stein

#31. Learning the rules that govern intelligible speech is an inculcation into normalized language, where the price of not conforming is the loss of intelligibility itself.

Judith Butler

#32. If you do grow up feeling as though you don't quite fit in as a child, it's very easy to decide you're certain not going to fit in as an adult. You hang on to your eccentricities and hate the idea of conforming. It's a common pattern.

Derren Brown

#33. 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

#34. The point is that whatever one is trying to learn, it is necessary to have firsthand experience, rather than learning from books or from teachers or by merely conforming to an already established pattern.

Chogyam Trungpa

#35. Integrity is conforming reality to our words - in other words, keeping promises and fulfilling expectations.

Stephen Covey

#36. School is very conformist, and one of the very first conforming that goes on in preschool and kindergarten is gender.

Dan Savage

#37. Shapers" are independent thinkers: curious, non-conforming, and rebellious. They practice brutal, nonhierarchical honesty. And they act in the face of risk, because their fear of not succeeding exceeds their fear of failing.

Adam M. Grant

#38. In civilized communities men's idiosyncrasies are mitigated by the necessity of conforming to certain rules of behavior. Culture is a mask that hides their faces.

W. Somerset Maugham

#39. To me, being appropriate
does not always mean conforming. Often it means just
the opposite. Sometimes, refusing to conform and even confronting
is not only appropriate but necessary to change the
world for the better.

Donda West

#40. Now that you have a bit of respect, you value your standing in the group and don't want to jeopardize it. To maintain and then gain status, you play a game of follow-the-leader, conforming to prove your worth as a group member. As

Adam M. Grant

#41. I believe that we are conforming to the divine order and the will of Providence when we are doing even indifferent things that belong to our condition.

Francois Fenelon

#42. 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

#43. The saving of our world from pending doom will come, not through the complacent adjustment of the conforming majority, but through the creative maladjustment of a nonconforming minority.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#44. Thank the Lord for using each person as a tool in your life to deepen your insight into His grace and conforming you to the image of His Son.

Charles Stanley

#45. There's the conforming 9-to-5-lifestyle thing. Then there's, like, settling down, trying to find a balance in a relationship sense, or having a dog and having a house. All these things, like, they're not really gonna make you happy.

Ty Segall

#46. If your appraisal comes back too low - you don't have at least 10% equity for a conforming loan or 20% for a jumbo loan - you might not be able to refinance at all, at least with a loan that's packaged and sold to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. That means you may have to pay a much higher rate.

Jean Chatzky

#47. I realised that conforming didn't accomplish anything. Do your own thing. As long as you learn that, you're cool.

Sandra Bullock

#48. Brand and product don't compete. Brand is product, and everything else conforming to the unique story that consumers create when they think of you.

Laura Busche

#49. The greatest action is not conforming with the worlds ways.

Gautama Buddha

#50. Fashion in the past meant conforming and losing oneself. Fashion in the present means being individual and finding oneself.

Gloria Steinem

#51. 'Punk' doesn't mean Mohawks and safety pins. It's about not conforming.

Patrick Stump

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

Hyman Rickover

#53. The mind will always take on an order conforming to that upon which it concentrates.

Richard J. Foster

#54. We can not improve humanity if everyone is conforming to society's standards. Set your own standard, and find out for yourself.

Mary Sage Nguyen

#55. Don't get caught up in fashion games. These kids probably think we're old, nark conformists or something, but really, they're just conforming in their own ways. They're conforming to nonconformity.

Richelle Mead

#56. There is a certain feeling of comfort and safety that one gets by conforming and obeying. Believing that things are in someone else's hands, and having trust that someone else will make things right, is a way to avoid responsibility.

Larken Rose

#57. I am a free-willed, free-thinking, non-conforming subversive using the powers of intellect and common sense to not only question my environment but search for answers to those questions in order to share that knowledge with those around me for a better tomorrow.

R. Wolf Baldassarro

#58. Conformism is a potent statement, and as much as we do talk about individuality in fashion, there's a sense that people are fearful of not conforming and not being part of action.

Erin O'Connor

#59. The fourth (of the four cardinal virtues) is supportiveness: this manifests as service to others without expectation of reward. (Paraphrased: Such service is not a mere conforming to some external rule of behavior, but instead a manifestation of your original nature).

Laozi

#60. There is NO way you're living out your purpose if you're conforming to the rules. There is NO way you'll fulfill your destiny if you're trapped in the dogma of what other people think.

Catrice M. Jackson

#61. The end goal of all of this striving is to live joyfully, and that there are often more direct ways of achieving this than conforming to rigid standards set by social custom.

Martha Beck

#62. When gender non-conforming people cross paths with sexually confused and repressed people, shit hits the fan.

Merlyn Gabriel Miller

#63. 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

#64. Many people are not conforming with theism, but they are comfortable with spiritualism.

Debasish Mridha

#65. Try becoming a person people want to be with rather than conforming yourself to the false identity of what you conceive their ideal to be.

An Na

#66. It's important to understand that at every point of opposition to who we are or to what God has called us to do, we are presented with the options of either conforming and giving in, or standing our ground and becoming stronger in who God has made us to be

Gabriel Wilson

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

Sean Durkin

#68. O what pride, conforming to the world and following its fashions! Warn them, warn them for me, while you have strength and time and be faithful to your duty.

Francis Asbury

#69. Social progress takes effect through the replacement of all institutions by new ones; and since every institution involves the recognition of the duty of conforming to it, progress must involve the repudiation of an established duty at every step.

George Bernard Shaw

#70. I had a lot of anger against the way things 'should be done' - conforming to social norms, ticking boxes to gain acceptance. Frustration at the pointlessness and predictability of smalltalk. Oh and a lot of anger about tea, which the British seem to use to avoid actually saying anything.

Rupert Friend

#71. A society becomes a breeding ground of violence and terrorism when it closes its door to new ideas and forces the citizens to live in the prison of conforming thoughts.

Debasish Mridha

#72. Didn't normal simply mean conforming to other people's expectations?

Jim Buckner

#73. The great difficulty is that you cannot be nice. If you want to take back the power, you have to behave in ways that are not conforming and will not be about pleasing other people.

Rachel Holmes

#74. How does our will become sanctified? By conforming itself unreservedly to that of God.

Francois Fenelon

#75. Conforming is not cool.

Adam Lambert

#76. When she stopped conforming to the conventional picture of femininity she finally began to enjoy being a woman.

Betty Friedan

#77. With the child already shame-based, the feeling of discouragement takes over the whole personality. As the shame-based child forms her primitive conscience, shame becomes immorality or neurotic guilt. The conforming child believes he can do nothing right,

John Bradshaw

#78. The way of creating believable characters is not by conforming to a set of PC rules.

Mark Haddon

#79. But now, he was conscious of his own impatience with what he had begun to see as the sinister pedantry of therapy, its suggestion that life was somehow reparable, that there existed a societal norm and that the patient was being guided toward conforming to it.

Hanya Yanagihara

#80. If you're in favour of any policy - reform, revolution, stability, regression, whatever - if you're at least minimally moral, it's because you think it's somehow good for people. And good for people means conforming to their fundamental nature.

Noam Chomsky

#81. When we consider propaganda as the attempt to shape the thoughts and feelings of others, in ways conforming to the aims of the communicator, we find a vast array of different examples throughout history.

Randal Marlin

#82. The conservative society accepts that rebellion and bad behaviour are natural and must be curbed. The liberal society requires all its citizens to be perfectly balanced, conforming to its ideals and aims with a happy heart and a willing mind - a

Peter Hitchens

#83. If you truly expect to realize your dreams, abandon the need for blanket approval. If conforming to everyone's expectations is the number one goal, you have sacrificed your uniqueness, and therefore your excellence.

Hope Solo

#84. Now, Benny was no eejit. He wasn't expecting the Tunisian nationals to be Irish. What he did expect was darkish people with Irishy personalities.
That was not what he got.
The Tunisians weren't interested in conforming to Benny's preconceptions. They stubbornly insisted on being themselves.

Eoin Colfer

#85. One of the main uses of a home is to stay in it, when one is too weak and spiritless for conforming, without effort, to the ways of other houses.

Jane Welsh Carlyle

#86. New ideas are not born in a conforming environment.

Roger Von Oech

#87. Compromising and conforming to the world's
standard is against God's Word.

Billy Graham

#88. People think that young people don't care about things, but I think they do care; they just aren't super interested in conforming to what older people think are the right way to do things.

Olivia Wilde

#89. A truly wise person will constantly move forward, striving for self-improvement, knowing that daily repentance is needed for progress. He will realize the good life is simply conforming to a standard of right and justice. The joys of happiness can only be realized by living lofty principles.

Marvin J. Ashton

#90. We're all teased or pressured into conforming to the all-levelling social norms of mediocrity.

H.M. Forester

#91. Who's to say what normal? We're all weird in some way. I'm not conforming to what society think I should be. I'm gonna let my freak flag fly.

Grace Risata

#92. Art respects the masses, by confronting them as that which they could be, rather than conforming to them in their degraded state.

Theodor W. Adorno

#93. Jazz is not a game of chance. Its sonorous disorder is only an appearance. It is an organized force obeying obscure laws, conforming to a secret technique, codified or not, and we discover that no one can become a virtuoso on the spur of the moment in this orchestra of 'noisemakers.

Wanda Landowska

#94. Moral, adj. Conforming to a local and mutable standard of right. Having the quality of general expediency.

Ambrose Bierce

#95. And what is 'art'? - a firestorm rushing through Time, arising from no visible source and conforming to no principles of logic or causality.

Joyce Carol Oates

#96. Peer pressure accounts for much of the promiscuous sex in high schools and colleges. "Conform or get lost." Since no one enjoys losing friends or being cast out of his own circle, peer pressure - especially during the years of adolescence - is an almost irresistible force.

Billy Graham

#97. One must conform to the baseness of an age or become neurotic.

Robert Musil

#98. One of our most deep-seated fears is that we might be called an "outsider." This fear has led us down the road to conformity, has put the imprint of "the organization man" on our souls, and has robbed us of originality of thought, individuality of personality, and constructive action.

Billy Graham

#99. Apparently I couldn't even pretend to be normal.

Tom Upton

#100. The apostle Paul urges Christians everywhere in all ages to be nonconformists as far as the world system is concerned. We are not to conform. A true Christian, living an obedient life, is a constant rebuke to those who accept the
moral standards of this world.

Billy Graham