Business Quote by Freya Stark

A convention is a social pattern we have chosen to prefer over whatever the raw world simply proffers. It is a sign of the…

— A. Bartlett Giamatti

Conventions are unstated agreements within a community to abide by a single way of doing things - not because there is any inherent advantage…

— Steven Pinker

Convention is another name for the habits of society.

— Rosamond Lehmann

Conventions, like clichés, have a way of surviving their own usefulness.

— Jane Rule

Convention is the ruler of all.

— Pindar

I thought this convention phenomenon was very flattering, but that's about the extent of it.

— George Takei

Art flouts convention. Convention became convention because it works.

— Stewart Brand

“As a rule, conventions only become conventions if they work.”

— Steve Krug

Business conventions are important because they demonstrate how many people a company can operate without!.

— Anonymous

You don't want to move toward some utopian literary situation where everybody's free of all conventions. That's ridiculous! Conventions are what you need. You…

— Lev Grossman

I always like playing with some sort of typical convention or idea and turning it over.

— Thom Browne

Society's the mother of convention.

— Carolyn Wells