Conventional Quotes

432 quotes by 390 authors

Never accept conventional wisdom when it comes to finance. If others keep failing, why do you want to follow them? — Ziad K. Abdelnour
The vision of extraordinary achievement is,by definition, a few steps beyond consensus and conventional logic — Scott Belsky
A true spiritual teacher does not have anything to teach in the conventional sense of the word, does not have anything to give or add… — Eckhart Tolle
The great quality of true art is that it rediscovers, grasps and reveals to us that reality far from where we live, from which we… — Marcel Proust
The whole purpose of spiritual direction is to penetrate beneath the surface of a man's life, to get behind the faÃ§ade of conventional gestures and… — Thomas Merton
Donâ€™t just climb the ladder of success - a ladder that leads, after all, to higher and higher levels of stress and burnout - but… — Arianna Huffington
That is not what Geek means to me. We are more than the hobbies that we do or the things that we like. To me,… — Felicia Day
Well, I am not really a conventional mom at all. Like, I had my kids really young. I had Danny when I was 18 or… — Monica Potter
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… — Lea Salonga
I really think if you have a tattoo you have to wonder about what kind of future you have ahead of you. As an employer,… — Katie Hopkins
That's the trouble with the conventional doctors. They always say, 'How does it work?' but often there isn't any neat little answer...Something simply works...We don't… — John Bradshaw
Dr. Lawrence Burton....in fighting cancer.(:) Many of his patients are now living normal lives after being told there was nothing more the conventional treatments could… — Larry McDonald
Israel will not tolerate a situation in which Iran has effective control of non-conventional weapons that can be used directly against the state of Israel. — Ehud Olmert
I think one of the things that language poets are very involved with is getting away from conventional ideas of beauty, because those ideas contain… — Diane Wakoski
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… — Adam Schiff
The most important lesson of New Labour is this: Every time we made progress we did it by challenging the conventional wisdom. — Ed Miliband
What distinguishes the campaign finance issue from just about every other one being debated these days is that the two sides do not divide along… — James L. Buckley
Hopelessly uneconomic on any substantial scale, since it requires a conventional power back-up for when the wind stops blowing, forests of wind turbines are rightly… — Nigel Lawson
Nobody can live in society without conventions. The reason why sensible people are as conventional as they can bear to be is that conventionality saves… — George Bernard Shaw
It is from him, from Beolco Ruzzante, that I've learned to free myself from conventional literary writing and to express myself with words that you… — Dario Fo

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