The conventional wisdom is - people say this all the time - you should only write something when you're far enough away… — Charlie Kaufman Copy Share Image
There's this message to comedians in particular, that you shouldn't write it, and a television writer should write it. And that's a… — Jim Gaffigan Copy Share Image
Living a long life, the conventional wisdom at the time said, depended to a great extent on who we were-that is, our… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
Hurricane Katrina overwhelmed levees and exploded the conventional wisdom about a shared American prosperity, exposing a group of people so poor they… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
I’ve never agreed with the conventional wisdom that ‘actors are great liars.’ If more people understood the acting process, the goals of… — Rob Lowe Copy Share Image
A well-functioning democracy has a culture of free speech, not simply legal protection of free speech. It encourages independence of mind. It… — Cass Sunstein Copy Share Image
Community organizing is all about building grassroots support. It's about identifying the people around you with whom you can create a common,… — Tom Peters Copy Share Image
The censors have always had a field day with James Joyce, specifically with 'Ulysses,' but also with his other writings. The conventional… — Karen DeCrow Copy Share Image
The overarching conventional wisdom - what everyone from government experts to my French girlfriends take as articles of faith - is that… — Pamela Druckerman Copy Share Image