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Conformity Quotes
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This was a tough action for us to take, especially because it impacts many people who have served National well. However, given the continuing weakness in the marketplace, it is necessary to conform our resources to the market in order to maximize National's opportunity for long-term success. (Quote by - Brian Halla)
Conformity-the natural instinct to passively yield to that vague something recognized as authority. (Quote by - Mark Twain)
The eager and often inconsiderate appeals of reformers and revolutionists are indispensable to counterbalance the inertia and fossilism marking so large a part of human institutions. (Quote by - Walt Whitman, Democratic Vistas, 1871)
Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind. (Quote by - Dr. Seuss)
Do not follow where the path may lead. Go, instead, where there is no path and leave a trail. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
Fashion is more powerful than any tyrant. (Quote by - Latin Proverb)
One who walks in another's tracks leaves no footprints. (Quote by - Proverb)
The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking. (Quote by - J.K. Galbraith)
Stubborness does have its helpful features. You always know what you are going to be thinking tomorrow. (Quote by - Glen Beaman)
All progress has resulted from people who took unpopular positions. (Quote by - Adlai Stevenson, speech, Princeton, 1954)
A man must consider what a rich realm he abdicates when he becomes a conformist. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
The Good of man is the active exercise of his soul's faculties in conformity with excellence or virtue, or if there be several human excellences or virtues, in conformity with the best and most perfect among them. (Quote by - Aristotle)
I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones. (Quote by - John Cage)
Our wretched species is so made that those who walk on the well-trodden path always throw stones at those who are showing a new road. (Quote by - Voltaire)