Conventional Quotes

I reject most conventional wisdom.

I refuse to live a conventional life.

I've never really lived a conventional life, so I think it's quite foolish for me or anyone else to start thinking that I am going to start making conventional choices.

It is now conventional wisdom that Americans do not care why we went to war in Iraq, that it is enough that the world is better off without Saddam Hussein.

It will be a pity if women in the more conventional mould are to be phased out, for there will never be anyone to go home to.

The people who do make big discoveries are the ones who somehow manage to free themselves from conventional ways of thinking and to see the subject from a new perspective.

Conventional wisdom notwithstanding, there is no reason either in football or in poetry why the two should not meet in a man's life if he has the weight and cares about the words.

Conventional wisdom tells us we'll only be happier after a divorce if the marriage itself was a war zone.

Guy Rivers, a conventional piece as regards the love affair which makes a part of the plot, is a tale of deadly strife between the laws of Georgia and a fiendish bandit.

The most important lesson of New Labour is this: Every time we made progress we did it by challenging the conventional wisdom.

Sanity is only that which is within the frame of reference of conventional thought.

In the beginning, Adam — not Eve— was instructed to earn the bread by the sweat of his brow. Contrary to conventional wisdom, a mother's calling is in the home, not in the marketplace.

In the real world of research, conventional tests of [statistical] significance seem almost worthless.

Do not underestimate what you specific conventional, nor covetousness others. He who envies others does not terra firma organization of intellect.

I've always wanted to lead an ordered, relatively conventional and private life.

I have an instinctual distrust of conventional happy endings.

When will conventional good manners become attractive? When will ladies of fashion exhibit their shoulders a little less and their affability and wit a little more?

A true religious instinct never deprived man of one single joy; mournful faces and a sombre aspect are the conventional affectations of the weak-minded.

My religion centers in different areas than what's considered conventional religion.

Anyone who strays too far from the majority view or the conventional wisdom is bound to be labeled "arrogant," "a maverick," "a Wildman," "weird," or even "crazy."

In the conventional wisdom of conservatives, the modern search for security is regularly billed as the greatest single threat to economic progress.

In most conventional novels, God is not allowed to be nuts. Nor are nuts allowed to be God.

I have two ideas for novels at the moment, neither of them all that conventional, but I'm not ready to choose between them yet, let alone settle down to the process of writing.

Allow the brush to 'wander' above the realm of conventional judgement and practice.

Conventional manners are a kind of literacy test for the alien who comes among us.

One of the reasons, surely, why women have been credited with less perfect veracity than men is that the burden of conventional falsehood falls chiefly on them.

Men are more conventional than women and much slower to change their ideas.

The precision provided (or enforced) by programming languages and their execution can identify lacunas, ambiguities, and other areas of potential confusion in conventional [mathematical] notation.

Art pierces opaque subjectivity, the not seeing of conventional life, and discloses reality.

When you find errors in conventional wisdom-when everyone says A and A is not true-you gain competitive advantage. Only a few times do you have to find errors in conventional wisdom to make a living.

I really don't consider myself to be a conventional Hollywood star. I've never really been marketed by the big studios to do mass market box office films.

In the modern operas that 'Miss Saigon' and 'Les Miz' are, nobody breaks out into song from conventional book dialogue. Everything is sung from beginning to end, including the recitative.

We must make organic the conventional choice and not the exception available only to the rich and educated.

I have tried and failed to lead a conventional life. When I try to be like other people, I fall out of bed.

I think the conventional wisdom is vastly true. There will be a huge growth in mobile, and this is something we are witnessing every day.

Better a loving single-parent family than a 'conventional' family where the parents hate each other and the father is a demagogue.

Over time, I started becoming more and more aware of the vastness and complexity of the universe, which led me away from any sort of conventional Christianity.

In our day the conventional element in literature is elaborately disguised by a law of copyright pretending that every work of art is an invention distinctive enough to be patented.

Tourism requires that you see conventional things, and that you see them in a conventional way.

Conventional wisdom is not to put all of your eggs in one basket. 80/20 wisdom is to choose a basket carefully, load all your eggs into it, and then watch it like a hawk.

You were probably educated in the conventional economic theories of your period which were magnificent and most ingenious, but--if you will pardon my saying so--all wrong.

Difficult times disrupt your conventional ways of thinking and push you to forge better habits of thought, performance and being.

I don't think anyone has exhausted the range of sound possible in a conventional rock band, but people do become slaves to their own easiest techniques

We need not renounce the use of conventional force. We will be ready to repel any clear and present danger that poses a genuine threat to our national security and survival.

States are like people. They do not question the awful status quo until some dramatic event overturns the conventional and lax way of thinking.

Unquestionably, the world is better off without Saddam.

Part of the heart of anarchy is, dare to go against the grain of the conventional ways of thinking about our realities. Anarchists have always gone against the grain, and that's been a place of hope.

I came to realize that far more important to me than any plot or conventional sense was the sheer directionality I felt while reading prose, the texture of time as it passed, life's white machine.

The conventional notions of art have changed, and a lot of things done today are considered works of art that would have been rejected in the past.

A dream is always simmering below the conventional surface of speech and reflection.