Conform Quotes

• 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
  • Tea
  • Acceptance
  • Frustration

• No attempt to explain the world, either scientifically or theologically, can be considered successful until it accounts for the paradoxical conjunction of the temporal and the atemporal, of being and becoming. And no subject conforms this paradoical conjuction more starkly than the origin of the universe.

  

  Paul Davies
  • World
  • Universe
  • Successful

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

  

  Andy Rooney
  • May
  • Mean
  • Natural

• Yet man does recognise himself [as an animal]. But I ask you and the whole world for a generic differentia between man and ape which conforms to the principles of natural history, I certainly know of none... If I were to call man ape or vice versa, I should bring down all the theologians on my head. But perhaps I should still do it according to the rules of science.

  

  Carl Linnaeus
  • World
  • Men
  • Science

• Conclusions I. A curve has been found representing the frequency distribution of standard deviations of samples drawn from a normal population. II. A curve has been found representing the frequency distribution of values of the means of such samples, when these values are measured from the mean of the population in terms of the standard deviation of the sample... III. Tables are given by which it can be judged whether a series of experiments, however short, have given a result which conforms to any required standard of accuracy or whether it is necessary to continue the investigation.

  

  William Sealy Gosset
  • Mean
  • Conclusion
  • Experiments

• Salvation lies in imitating Christ, in other words, in imitating the 'withdrawal relationship' that links him with his Father... To listen to the Father's silence is to abandon oneself to his withdrawal, to conform to it.

  

  Rene Girard
  • Father
  • Words
  • Silence

• Conform, go crazy, or become an artist.

  

  Nancy Springer
  • Crazy
  • Artist
  • Conform

• What we, or at any rate what I, refer to confidently as memory--meaning a moment, a scene, a fact that has been subjected to a fixative and thereby rescued from oblivion--is really a form of storytelling that goes on continually in the mind and often changes with the telling. Too many conflicting emotional interests are involved for life ever to be wholly acceptable, and possibly it is the work of the storyteller to rearrange things so that they conform to this end. In any case, in talking about the past we lie with every breath we draw.

  

  William Maxwell
  • Moments
  • Emotional
  • Interest

• An experience, perceptual or conceptual, must conform to reality in order to be true

  

  William James
  • Truth
  • Reality
  • Order

• The desire to order other people around and make them conform to one own's vision takes many forms.

  

  Thomas Sowell
  • Desire
  • Vision
  • Order

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

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Reality
  • Promise
  • Integrity

• Interactivity is a big part of video games, which have been a big part of entertainment for 20 years. That's what we think of as a 'lean-forward' type of entertainment. It's much more intense. But TV is more of a 'lean-back' entertainment - so the big improvement there is on-demand, because it conforms to your schedule.

  

  Reed Hastings
  • Improvement
  • Demand
  • Entertainment

• An engineer's invention causes things to come into existence from ideas, makes world conform to thought; whereas science, by deriving ideas from observation, makes thought conform to existence.

  

  Carl Mitcham
  • World
  • Science
  • Existence

• For every crime that comes before him, a judge is required to complete a perfect syllogism in which the major premise must be the general law; the minor, the action that conforms or does not conform to the law; and the conclusion, acquittal or punishment. If the judge were constrained, or if he desired to frame even a single additional syllogism, the door would thereby be opened to uncertainty.

  

  Cesare Beccaria
  • Action
  • Perfect
  • Judging

• Boys' connections—to other people and to their selves—can enable them to think and act of their own volition and to resist overly restrictive norms and expectation when they are faced with pressures to conform.

  

  Judy Chu
  • Boys
  • Conform
  • Pressures

• Our tolerance is part of what makes Britain, Britain. Conform to it; or don't come here.

  

  Tony Blair
  • Tolerance
  • Britain
  • Conform

• If outer doors close seem to close to you, do not hesitate. Perist in inner preparations. The inner realm of thought controls all outer action. When you get the right attitude, the outer world of results and personalities must conform to it. That is the law of mind-action.

  

  Catherine Ponder
  • World
  • Mind
  • Action

• We are more likely to cheat if we see others doing so. We tend to conform to accepted norms of reasonable behaviour, rather than adhere to strict rules.

  

  Evan Davis
  • Rules
  • Behaviour
  • Cheat

• You can’t look too far ahead. Do that and you’ll lose sight of what you’re doing and stumble. I’m not saying you should focus solely on the details right in front of you, mind you. You’ve got to look ahead a bit or else you’ll bump into something. You’ve got to conform to the proper order and at the same time keep an eye out for what’s ahead. That’s critical, no matter what you’re doing.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Focus
  • Lose
  • Details

1

2

previous

next