The conventional Indian movie industry is not for me: I cannot dance around trees or the water-fountain. — Sarita Choudhury Copy Share Image
It saves trouble to be conventional, for you're not always explaining things. — Myrtle Reed Copy Share Image
One of the toughest battles in intelligence is combating conventional wisdom. — Robert M. Gates Copy Share Image
“Most of the misery had been generated by her conventional aspect, and not by her innate sensations.” — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
Conventional cancer treatments are in place as the law of the land because they pay, not heal, the best. — John Diamond Copy Share Image
Never accept conventional wisdom when it comes to finance. If others keep failing, why do you want to follow them? — Ziad K. Abdelnour Copy Share Image
[In natural history,] great discovery often requires a map to a hidden mine filled with gems then easily gathered by conventional tools,… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
Conventional words or other signs have to be sought for laboriously only in a second stage, where the associative play already referred… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
I haven't looked at marriage in the conventional sense, as far as settling down. I look at it as putting faith in… — Marilyn Manson Copy Share Image
Fauvism was our ordeal by fire... colours became charges of dynamite. They were expected to charge light... The great merit of this… — Andre Derain Copy Share Image
I had to teach myself to let go of the conventional rock way of playing guitar and singing. Some things you wouldn't… — Chris Cornell 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
Performance art can involve the audience with taste, smell and sounds not available with electronic media and not practical with conventional theater.… — Jack Bowman Copy Share Image
Dewey repudiated what he called militant atheism. He felt that people have innate religious qualities, such as compassion for sufferers, an urge… — James A. Haught Copy Share Image
The author brings to the table a healthy skepticism of the conventional wisdom, an admirable ability to separate fact from fancy, and… — Alan Abelson Copy Share Image
I think the Russians basically don't think the North Koreans and the Iranians have the capabilities to get weapon systems that can… — John Bolton Copy Share Image
I've been a writer and a parent since adolescence, it feels like, and I'm still making both gigs up as I go… — Tim Winton Copy Share Image
Since a calorie is a measure of food energy, you may understandably assume that the more calories you consume, the more energy… — Brendan Brazier Copy Share Image
Contrary to popular belief, conventional wisdom would have one believe that it is insane to resist this, the mightiest of empires… But… — Mumia Abu-Jamal Copy Share Image
I wear the Jewish star, but I'm not - I haven't converted to Judaism, and I'm not - I'm not - I'm… — Madonna Ciccone Copy Share Image
The great quality of true art is that it rediscovers, grasps and reveals to us that reality far from where we live,… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Questions like, "Is my suit OK?", or "Is my job performance satisfactory?", are impossible to think about in the absence of a… — Robert H. Frank Copy Share Image
It is so hard for an evolutionary biologist to write about extinction caused by human stupidity. Let me then float an unconventional… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
A free press is one where it's okay to state the conclusion you're led to by the evidence. One reason I'm in… — Bill Moyers Copy Share Image
The hardest thing over the years has been having the courage to go against the dominant wisdom of the time to have… — Michael Steinhardt Copy Share Image
“Educational bureaucracies dull a child’s questing sensitivity.” Odrade explaining. “The young must be damped down. Never let them know how good they… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
The friends of Job appear on the scene as advisers and "consolers," offering Job the fruits of their moral scientia. But when… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
The notion of following your passion is worth indulging. Your passion is your source of power. To live really a full life,… — Doug Peacock Copy Share Image
The conventional wisdom in our business is that you have to grow and keep moving to survive. We never grew, always stayed… — Stefan Sagmeister Copy Share Image
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