Chess Quote by Garry Kasparov

I think I'm always trying to subvert conventions, and sometimes it's more successful than others.

— Carla Gugino

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

— Jane Rule

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

I'm a sworn enemy of convention. I despise the conventional in anything, even the arts.

— Hedy Lamarr

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

— Steve Krug

Art flouts convention. Convention became convention because it works.

— Stewart Brand

The struggle to be original hates conformity, but the struggle to be better disregards it, or takes advantage of it to build workable conventions.

— Walter Darby Bannard

I think there are some people who have this thing where, from the very beginning, some part of them rejects convention.

— Elvis Mitchell

I've had the basic courage and confidence to never follow convention.

— Zeenat Aman

Profound skepticism is favorable to conventions, because it doubts that the criticism of conventions is any truer than they are.

— George Santayana

No convention gets to be a convention at all except by grace of a lot of clever and powerful people first inventing it, and…

— Katharine Fullerton Gerould

Convention is another name for the habits of society.

— Rosamond Lehmann