Conventional Quotes

432 quotes by 390 authors

What really matters for success, character, happiness and life long achievements is a definite set of emotional skills - your EQ - not just purely… — Daniel Goleman
Contrary to conventional wisdom, dance is not a universal 'language' but many languages and dialects. There are close to 6000 verbal languages, and probably that… — Judith Lynne Hanna
I love the medium of photography, for with its unique realism it gives me the power to go beyond conventional ways of seeing and understanding… — Wynn Bullock
Socialism is young and has made errors. Many times revolutionaries lack the knowledge and intellectual courage needed to meet the task of developing the new… — Che Guevara
The biggest handicap in research is an ability to think outside the box. The handicap is being encumbered by all the conventional wisdom in a… — Aubrey de Grey
The spiritual ambiguity growing up made me really latch onto a faith - Protestantism - that was somewhat conventional. Everyone else was rebelling against traditions… — Sufjan Stevens
Conventional turbines only work up to 200 feet, but capturing a small fraction of the global wind energy at higher altitudes could be sufficient to… — Saul Griffith
Landmines are different from other conventional weapons. When a war is over, the landmines stay in the ground and continue to kill - for decades. — Jody Williams
I was like most teenagers. I wanted to look more conventional - you know, to just be the pretty girl in school. — Lily Cole
I would spend hours absorbing every intonation, every inflection - how the singer would convey a sentiment and how it would sound coming out of… — Kat Edmonson
When I first began modeling, I was very conventional looking. I had hair down to my waist in a side parting - almost church-like. But… — Erin O'Connor
The Dorm Room Diet is nothing like the conventional diets you may have tried in the past. It offers guidelines for creating a healthy lifestyle… — Daphne Oz
You tend to compose things more in the middle of frame in 3-D than you would in a conventional frame. You can really see composition… — Caleb Deschanel
I think that, with homoeopathy, if you get the right mix, it works 20 times quicker than conventional medicine. — Sienna Guillory
Conventional wisdom tells us to avoid taking unalterable action while at a low point in life. I have never been conventional. — Therese Fowler
Difficult times disrupt your conventional ways of thinking and push you to forge better habits of thought, performance and being. — Robin S. Sharma
To suggest that organic vegetables, which cost far more than conventional produce, can feed billions of people in parts of the world without roads or… — Michael Specter
I think, when I was younger, I believed in - and yearned for - conventional beauty. I thought there was a spectrum from ugly to… — Rainbow Rowell
In its heyday, the blazer had come to symbolise a kind of conventional decency. Yacht club commodores and school bursars wore blazers. People who played… — Craig Brown
The only thing that makes a book YA is that it is about teenagers, and it is written in a very conventional, non-artsy, non-pretentious way.… — Russell Smith

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