The enemy of the conventional wisdom is not ideas but the march of events. — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
Conventional wisdom tells us to avoid taking unalterable action while at a low point in life. I have never been conventional. — Therese Fowler Copy Share Image
Mainstream media tend to just mouth the conventional wisdom, to see everything through the filter of right and left. — Arianna Huffington Copy Share Image
Economists often like startling theorems, results which seem to run counter to conventional wisdom. — Joseph Stiglitz Copy Share Image
I'm very proud of the Rome episode of 'No Reservations' because it violated all the conventional wisdom about making television. You're never,… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
Conventional wisdom on government's role in inequality often has it backwards. Tax reforms have resulted in a more progressive federal income tax;… — Paul Ryan Copy Share Image
“By the time we reach adulthood we are so full of conventional wisdom, preconceived notions, and filters and limitations of various kinds… — Erland Bakke Copy Share Image
Until there are tangible metrics for quantifying the real value of a token's utility, the gap between value and valuation will continue… — William Mougayar Copy Share Image
Take a brilliant, creative social scientist, without any respect for conventional wisdom and you get Ellen Langer. She is a fantastic storyteller,… — Dan Ariely Copy Share Image
“So the conventional wisdom in Galbraith’s view must be simple, convenient, comfortable, and comforting—though not necessarily true. It would be silly to… — Steven D. Levitt Copy Share Image
“When the conventional wisdom of physics seemed to conflict with an elegant theory of his, Einstein was inclined to question that wisdom… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
Create a vision and never let the environment, other people's beliefs, or the limits of what has been done in the past… — Lionel Robbins, Baron Robbins Copy Share Image
Acknowledge the complexity of the world and resist the impression that you easily understand it. People are too quick to accept conventional… — Jim Rogers Copy Share Image
“People can fall into habitual programmed patterns of thinking, underpinned by long-held beliefs and blind acceptance of conventional wisdom. Lying beneath such… — Mark Ireland Copy Share Image
What's different now is that while political leaders used to give talking points to talk radio, now talk-radio hosts are giving talking… — John Avlon Copy Share Image
The conventional wisdom is often wrong. Crime didn't keep soaring in the 1990s, money alone doesn't win elections, and - surprise -… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
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
“Contrary to the tenets of conventional wisdom, viral ideas and campaigns were not first transmitted via the electronic media of the Internet… — Gavin John Adams Copy Share Image
“Why was it not good for man to be alone? If it were only man's loneliness with which God was concerned, he… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
“A successful special operation defies conventional wisdom by using a small force to defeat a much larger or well-entrenched opponent. This book… — William H. McRaven Copy Share Image
“I always admire people who have the courage to confront the conventional wisdom - I mean, people within the system. Those of… — Bill James Copy Share Image
“At the same time that “self-made” entered the nation’s lexicon, so did the notion of abject failure. Once reserved to describe a… — Joshua Wolf Shenk Copy Share Image
The rules your parents teach you to live by are very different than the rules the world actually runs by. Most of… — Tucker Max Copy Share Image
“the people who are best at telling jokes tend to have more health problems than the people laughing at them. A study… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“One of the most frustrating aspects of the Vietnam war from the Army's point of view is that as far as logistics… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
All conventional wisdom has an element of truth to it, but good design requires more than an element of truth - it… — Henry Petroski Copy Share Image
“You have to remain critically vigilant.” Question every premise, challenge conventional wisdom, and never accept the truth of something merely because everyone… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
People always blame the girl; she should have said no. A monosyllable, but conventional wisdom has always been that boys can't manage… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
“Well, what if the “other” party is wrong? What if conventional wisdom is too conservative? It’s this all-too-common impulse to complain, defer,… — Ryan Holiday Copy Share Image
For too long, the conventional wisdom has rejected the use of tariffs as a tool of both economic and foreign policy. However,… — Scott Bessent Copy Share Image
The conventional wisdom of fandom is that you must give your fans anything they want. But I've never felt that that's a… — DJ Shadow Copy Share Image
“Whatever the term, misfit innovators inhabit a different world—a world that, by conventional wisdom, should have nothing to do with traditional businesses… — Alexa Clay Copy Share Image
A wise and clear-eyed book, Future Hype challenges the conventional wisdom about technological change and provides a fresh perspective on our so-called… — Nicholas G. Carr Copy Share Image
There's the conventional wisdom, of which I have none, where you get a record deal, you get a publicist, you get a… — Chris Robinson Copy Share Image
The problem in our society is the ego psychology and conventional wisdom about "look out for #1." That conventional wisdom thinks that… — Robert Thurman Copy Share Image
Around '93, '94, the conventional wisdom about the Internet was that it was a toy for academics and researchers. So it was… — Marc Andreessen Copy Share Image
There's a conventional wisdom that says that strategic thinking is much more important than relationship building, which doesn't seem to be nearly… — Tom Rath Copy Share Image
Conventional wisdom is no wisdom at all. Conventional wisdom is taking somebody else's word for the way things are It's the followers… — Richard Marcinko Copy Share Image
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