Conventional Quotes

432 quotes by 396 authors

Doubt the conventional wisdom unless you can verify it with reason and experiment — Steve Albini
I don't think anyone has exhausted the range of sound possible in a conventional rock band, but people do become slaves to their own easiest… — Steve Albini
Conventional wisdom is not to put all of your eggs in one basket. 80/20 wisdom is to choose a basket carefully, load all your eggs… — Richard Koch
Shamanic healing is a journey. It involves stepping out of our habitual roles, our conventional scripts, and improvising a dancing path. — Gabrielle Roth
Implosion is no invention in the conventional sense, but rather the renaissance of ancient knowledge, lost over the course of time. — Viktor Schauberger
Anyone who strays too far from the majority view or the conventional wisdom is bound to be labeled "arrogant," "a maverick," "a Wildman," "weird," or… — John Eliot
Training the body to obey the mind as I have done differs from the more conventional method of getting the mind to obey the body. — Chris Evert
It's easy to live the expected and conventional. It's when you live the unexpected that you start having fun with your life. — Richard Bach
Question everything, even if it represents generations of conventional wisdom. — Robert Ringer
I'm not interested in living in a fantasy world ... All my work is still meant to evoke real architectural spaces. But what interests me… — Lebbeus Woods
The Irish Free State was one of dozens of new European democracies to emerge from the cauldron of the 1914-1918 war. It was one of… — John Bruton
A wise and clear-eyed book, Future Hype challenges the conventional wisdom about technological change and provides a fresh perspective on our so-called computer age. — Nicholas G. Carr
We're stuck. We're stuck between the East and the West. Between the past and the future. On the one hand there are the secular modernists,… — Elif Safak
Progress is not a straight line; the future is not a mere projection of trends in the present. Rather, it is revolutionary. It overturns the… — Dr. An Wang
If I have done anything, it is to make ugly appealing. In fact, most of my work is concerned with destroyingâ€”or at least deconstructingâ€”conventional ideas… — Miuccia Prada
In the end, a theory is accepted not because it is confirmed by conventional empirical tests, but because researchers persuade one another that the theory… — Fischer Black
James Russell offers a timely and compelling blueprint for a realistic transformation of America's energy consumption by refusing to fall victim to conventional thinking. Accessible?pragmatic… — Barry Bergdoll
I came to realize that far more important to me than any plot or conventional sense was the sheer directionality I felt while reading prose,… — Ben Lerner
Conventional manners are a kind of literacy test for the alien who comes among us. — Katharine Fullerton Gerould
One of the reasons, surely, why women have been credited with less perfect veracity than men is that the burden of conventional falsehood falls chiefly… — Katharine Fullerton Gerould

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