Conform Quotes

All too often, COTS [commercial-off-the-shelf] products do not fully conform to existing business processes and quite frequently cannot be integrated into an enterprise environment. Designing and developing applications internally allows us to effectively manage user expectations, more closely integrate enterprise data and systems, and provide long-term ongoing support. - John Roessler

All these kids were just so gender non-conforming and testing the limits. I asked them, 'How do you do this in Iowa?' But kids always get there about 10 years before everyone else. - Riki Wilchins

ABNORMAL, adj. Not conforming to standard. In matters of thought and conduct, to be independent is to be abnormal, to be abnormal is to be detested. Wherefore the lexicographer adviseth a striving toward the straiter [sic] resemblance of the Average Man than he hath to himself. Whoso attaineth thereto shall have peace, the prospect of death and the hope of Hell. - Ambrose Bierce

A prison becomes a home when you have the key. - George Sterling

A person's willingness to conform to arbitrary parameters is not a good criterion for selecting talent or allocating rewards. - Bruce Tulgan

A minority is powerless while it conforms to the majority; it is not even a minority then; but it is irresistible when it clogs by its whole weight. - Henry David Thoreau

A man must consider what a rich realm he abdicates when he becomes a conformist. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

A just person is one who is conformed and transformed into justice. - Meister Eckhart

A free society cherishes nonconformity. It knows that from the non-conformist, from the eccentric, have come many of the great ideas of freedom. Free society must fertilize the soil in which non-conformity and dissent and individualism can grow. - Henry Steele Commager