Conventional Quotes

432 quotes by 390 authors

The absurd, with its rupture of rationality-of conventional ways of seeing the world-is in fact an accurate and a productive way of understanding the world. — William Kentridge
I had to teach myself to let go of the conventional rock way of playing guitar and singing. Some things you wouldn't expect to work,… — Chris Cornell
Part of the heart of anarchy is, dare to go against the grain of the conventional ways of thinking about our realities. Anarchists have always… — Bell Hooks
Like everything genuine, its inner life guarantees its truth. All works of art created by truthful minds without regard for the work's conventional exterior remain… — Franz Marc
Infelicity is an ill to which all acts are heir which have the general character of ritual or ceremonial, all conventional acts. — J L Austin
Conventional wisdom would have one believe... — Mumia Abu-Jamal
Conventional wisdom suggests the primary motivator for entrepreneurs is money or wealth creation and, in fact, much of the political debate tends to center around… — Chip Conley
No doubt I do act in 'bad faith' when I deliberately avoid facing an honest decision and follow the conventional pattern of behavior in order… — John Macquarrie
Isn't a policy of conventional weapons, with the terrible bombs raining down, with the missiles, with the aircraft, with the submarines, with the torpedoes, with… — Margaret Thatcher
[T]he myth that there was somehow a magic wand in the early 1980s to cure AIDS - a wand that Reagan deliberately refused to wave… — Andrew Sullivan
The precision of hisskill places his work beyond the tentative and the experimental stage. He is continually searching and exploring both himself and his surroundings.… — Edward Steichen
The rare, delicate flavor of a life after retiring in one's sixties, whatever one has "retired" from, the pleasure I experienced beyond my job at… — Carolyn Heilbrun
In the real world of research, conventional tests of [statistical] significance seem almost worthless. — Fischer Black
In most conventional novels, God is not allowed to be nuts. Nor are nuts allowed to be God. — John Thomas Sladek
I believe that this is a different war than America has ever fought in the past. It is a non-conventional war. It means that you've… — Hugh Shelton
In the conventional wisdom of conservatives, the modern search for security is regularly billed as the greatest single threat to economic progress. — John Kenneth Galbraith
I am not concerned with truth, nor with conventional notions of what is beautiful. — Mark Strand
I lead a very conventional life. — Joan Didion
I think there's an awful lot of noise about the Church being persecuted but there is a more real issue that the conventional churches face… — Trevor Phillips
Our country has suffered from an on-again, off-again energy policy that has failed to get us to energy independence. As President Obama has said, we… — Ken Salazar

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