My businesses are usually built around challenging conventional wisdom, so I tend to gain by taking the other side. It's been very… — Mark Cuban Copy Share Image
Who knows what true loneliness is - not the conventional word but the naked terror? To the lonely themselves it wears a… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
This is what we have all come to Cannes for: for something different, experimental, a tilting at windmills, a great big pole-vault… — Peter Bradshaw Copy Share Image
I think, when I was younger, I believed in - and yearned for - conventional beauty. I thought there was a spectrum… — Rainbow Rowell Copy Share Image
Because investors are not usually penalized for adhering to conventional practices, doing so is the less professionally risky strategy, even though it… — Seth Klarman Copy Share Image
The world is always changed by people who don't listen to conventional wisdom. I think we often set our goals too small… — Rick Warren Copy Share Image
Conventional compliments often take the form of judgments however positive, and are sometimes offered to manipulate the behavior of others. NVC encourages… — Marshall B. Rosenberg Copy Share Image
Conventional forms of narrative allow for different points of view, but for this book I wanted a structure whereby each of the… — Penelope Lively Copy Share Image
Man is potentially a son, and woman is potentially a mother; woman depends on the dependence of man. The spinster, if pathetic… — Stella Benson Copy Share Image
We can not understand each other, if our sympathies are always safely tucked away; we can not understand each other, if our… — Ameen Rihani Copy Share Image
Saddam Hussein had a lengthy history of reckless and sudden aggression. He cultivated ties to terror -- hosting the Abu Nidal organization,… — Dick Cheney Copy Share Image
Because of the control of the media by corporate wealth, the discovery of truth depends on an alternative media, such as small… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
What I have been trying to remind people of for the past 40 years is that you can’t operate an entire conventional… — Prince Charles Copy Share Image
In the creation of the federal government, the states exercised the highest act of sovereignty, and they may, if they please, repeat… — John Taylor Copy Share Image
For every gain in deep certitude there is a corresponding growth of superficial "doubt." This doubt is by no means opposed to… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
Let's start with some of the reasons that the press holds its tongue and some of the things that you don't know… — Geneva Overholser Copy Share Image
Like everything genuine, its inner life guarantees its truth. All works of art created by truthful minds without regard for the work's… — Franz Marc Copy Share Image
When will conventional good manners become attractive? When will ladies of fashion exhibit their shoulders a little less and their affability and… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
In most instances, biotechnology, though a radically different approach, is a sustaining technology: It's a dramatically improved way of targeting problems that… — Clayton Christensen Copy Share Image
I was the daughter of an immigrant, raised to feel that I needed to get excellent, flawless grades and a full scholarship… — Susan Choi Copy Share Image
Isn't a policy of conventional weapons, with the terrible bombs raining down, with the missiles, with the aircraft, with the submarines, with… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
People take conventional ways that other people have always decorated their cars, and use them as ways of giving other people permission… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Dating is really all about sex. In the conventional context, this means that the man invites the woman to go through a… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
I think one of the things that language poets are very involved with is getting away from conventional ideas of beauty, because… — Diane Wakoski Copy Share Image
I don't think anyone has exhausted the range of sound possible in a conventional rock band, but people do become slaves to… — Steve Albini Copy Share Image
Men are like microwave ovens; they heat up immediately, but things start to boil over after about three minutes. Women are like… — Mardy Grothe Copy Share Image
Anyone who strays too far from the majority view or the conventional wisdom is bound to be labeled "arrogant," "a maverick," "a… — John Eliot Copy Share Image
The elderly have weathered enough squalls to know that this one, too, shall pass. They own the courage to be original; they've… — Sarah Ferguson Copy Share Image
Our memories are convenient lies we create, cribbing images from others' experiences. We discard the personal specifics which don't conform to the… — Damian Loeb Copy Share Image
The spiritual ambiguity growing up made me really latch onto a faith - Protestantism - that was somewhat conventional. Everyone else was… — Sufjan Stevens Copy Share Image
There are lots of cycles to markets - boom and bust - and also in perceptions of people. The conventional wisdom of… — Steve Case Copy Share Image
I have two ideas for novels at the moment, neither of them all that conventional, but I'm not ready to choose between… — Jonathan Coe Copy Share Image
Our Christian faith is actually very subversive of the conventional notion of success - the notion that what invests a person with… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
Strings of coincidence can strengthen us in the determination to follow our deepest intuitions even when they run counter to conventional wisdom… — Robert Moss Copy Share Image
To suggest that organic vegetables, which cost far more than conventional produce, can feed billions of people in parts of the world… — Michael Specter Copy Share Image
Especially without coverage, we have made it to 4, 5, 6% in the polls just on the power of the public interest… — Jill Stein Copy Share Image
Raising a child is a little like Picasso's work; in the beginning he did very conventional representational things. Cubism came after he… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
There's a conventional reaction when you see a star: You anticipate he'll be a part of a particular denouement down the road,… — Kathryn Bigelow Copy Share Image
Whether the patient has a cardiac condition, hypertension, autoimmune disease, fibroids, or asthma, he or she must be informed that fasting and… — Joel Fuhrman Copy Share Image
With '44 Scotland Street' I found myself having to work out how a daily novel works, and it is completely different to… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
