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Conventional is not for me. I like things that are uniquely Flo. I like being different. -- Florence Griffith Joyner
Conventional people are roused to fury by departure from convention, largely because they regard such departure as a criticism of themselves. -- Bertrand Russell
Conventional wisdom would have one believe... -- Mumia Abu-Jamal
Conventional opinion is the ruin of our souls. -- Rumi
Conventional economics is a form of brain damage. -- David Suzuki
Conventional history completely ignores half the human race. -- Barbara Mertz
Conventional wisdom is so scary because what if everybody's wrong? -- Kevin Costner
Conventional wisdom can get us into so much trouble, especially as artists. -- Kevin Costner
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Conventional Indian cinema is about people falling in love. They sing, they dance. -- Anurag Kashyap
Conventional economic theory... counts the depletion of resources as the accumulation of wealth. -- Mark Lynas
Conventional manners are a kind of literacy test for the alien who comes among us. -- Katharine Fullerton Gerould
Conventional wisdom holds that setting a timetable for getting American troops out of Iraq would be a mistake. -- Nick Clooney
Conventional cancer treatments are in place as the law of the land because they pay, not heal, the best. -- John Diamond
Conventional wisdom tells us we'll only be happier after a divorce if the marriage itself was a war zone. -- Ariel Gore
Conventional nudes based on classical originals could bear no burden of thought or inner life without losing their formal completeness. -- Kenneth Clark
Conventional economics is a form of brain damage. Economics is so fundamentally disconnected from the real world, it is destructive. -- David Suzuki
Conventional cancer therapy is so toxic and dehumanizing that I fear it far more than I fear death from cancer. -- Julian Whitaker
Conventional wisdom tells us to avoid taking unalterable action while at a low point in life. I have never been conventional. -- Therese Fowler
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Conventional agriculture has never succeeded in feeding the world, and it's never produced anything good to eat. For the future, we need to look toward alternatives. -- Dan Barber
Conventional money is supposed to be doing everything. By adding in complementary currencies, you actually get different types of things and different outcomes from different complementary currencies. -- Bernard Lietaer
Conventional wisdom on government's role in inequality often has it backwards. Tax reforms have resulted in a more progressive federal income tax; government transfer payments have become less progressive. -- Paul Ryan
Conventional wisdom nor scientific, mathematical prove of randomness in life could do nothing to deter human's curiosity for the unknown, however small the chance of a positive outcome maybe. -- Vann Chow
Conventional compliments often take the form of judgments however positive, and are sometimes offered to manipulate the behavior of others. NVC encourages the expression of appreciation solely for celebration. -- Marshall B. Rosenberg
Conventional names define a person's past: ancestry, ethnicity, nationality, religion. I am not who I was ten years ago and certainly not who I will be in twenty years -- FM-2030
Conventional forms of narrative allow for different points of view, but for this book I wanted a structure whereby each of the main characters contributed a distinctive version of the story. -- Penelope Lively
Conventional analysis suffers from a profound failure of imagination. It imagines passing clouds to be permanent and is blind to powerful, long-term shifts taking place in full view of the world. -- George Friedman
Conventional psychiatry has emphasized the genetic roots of psychosis based on the claim that twin and other studies show that schizophrenia is 80% heritable, which means that 80% of the cause is genetic. -- Richard Bentall
Conventional wisdom is no wisdom at all. Conventional wisdom is taking somebody else's word for the way things are It's the followers of this world who rely on assumption. Not the leaders. -- Richard Marcinko
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 supply the current energy needs of the globe. -- Saul Griffith
Conventional words or other signs have to be sought for laboriously only in a second stage, where the associative play already referred to is sufficiently established and can be reproduced at will. -- Albert Einstein
Conventional wisdom notwithstanding, there is no reason either in football or in poetry why the two should not meet in a man's life if he has the weight and cares about the words. -- Archibald MacLeish
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 into it, and then watch it like a hawk. -- Richard Koch
I did something that challenged the banking world. Conventional banks look for the rich; we look for the absolutely poor. All people are entrepreneurs, but many don't have the opportunity to find that out. -- Muhammad Yunus
Conventional wisdom, fooled by our misleading "physical intuition", is that the real world is continuous, and that discrete models are necessary evils for approximating the "real" world, due to the innate discreteness of the digital computer. -- Doron Zeilberger
Conventional wisdom is invariably out of date. Because in the time it has taken to become conventional - to become what everyone believes - the world has moved on. Conventional wisdom is a remnant of the past. -- Michael Crichton
Conventional dogmas, even if endowed with the authority of an Aristotle - ancient or modern - must be tested vigorously. If they are found wanting, we need not bother with them. But if they are found to be substantially correct, we may not overlook them. -- Norman Lamm
Swim upstream. Go the other way. Ignore the conventional wisdom. -- Sam Walton
Doubt the conventional wisdom unless you can verify it with reason and experiment. -- Steve Albini
Sanity is only that which is within the frame of reference of conventional thought. -- Erich Fromm
Economists often like startling theorems, results which seem to run counter to conventional wisdom. -- Joseph Stiglitz
The conventional army loses if it does not win. The guerrilla wins if he does not lose. -- Henry A. Kissinger
Rap is really just too conventional. Everybody does the same thing. No one ever pushes the box. -- Tyler, The Creator
I don't think Jimi committed suicide in the conventional way. He just decided to exit when he wanted to. -- Eric Burdon
The conventional wisdom is that if you are gay, you cannot play the romantic straight lead in a movie. -- Ian Mckellen
Mainstream media tend to just mouth the conventional wisdom, to see everything through the filter of right and left. -- Arianna Huffington
People should think things out fresh and not just accept conventional terms and the conventional way of doing things. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
Difficult times disrupt your conventional ways of thinking and push you to forge better habits of thought, performance and being. -- Robin S. Sharma
The most important lesson of New Labour is this: Every time we made progress we did it by challenging the conventional wisdom. -- Ed Miliband
Either you repeat the same conventional doctrines everybody is saying, or else you say something true, and it will sound like it's from Neptune. -- Noam Chomsky
I would finally renounce my delusional hypotheses and revert to thinking of myself as a human of more conventional circumstances and return to mathematical research. -- John Forbes Nash, Jr.
I guess they often cast me as the bad guy, because I'm not, er, conventional looking. I look sort of violent. I'm the odd one out, the outsider. -- Willem Dafoe
I don't like guys who are conventional. I'm an achiever; he has to be an achiever. I admire drive, I admire ambition. I like a guy who keeps my on my toes. -- Priyanka Chopra
Who knows what true loneliness is - not the conventional word but the naked terror? To the lonely themselves it wears a mask. The most miserable outcast hugs some memory or some illusion. -- Joseph Conrad
I'm very proud of the Rome episode of 'No Reservations' because it violated all the conventional wisdom about making television. You're never, ever supposed to do a food or travel show in black and white. -- Anthony Bourdain
As the spiritual leader of six million people, the Dalai Lama can be credited with a significant renunciation of the authority of tradition - of the conventional politics of national self-interest as well as of religion. -- Pankaj Mishra
It's funny, because in deference to conventional wisdom, I spent my struggling writer years trying to suppress my naturally baroque literary voice and write clean, spare prose. I finally gave up and embraced my baroque tendencies when I wrote the Kushiel series. -- Jacqueline Carey
Community organizing is all about building grassroots support. It's about identifying the people around you with whom you can create a common, passionate cause. And it's about ignoring the conventional wisdom of company politics and instead playing the game by very different rules. -- Tom Peters
Whether rich or poor, a home is not a home unless the roots of love are ever striking deeper through the crust of the earthly and the conventional, into the very realities of being, not consciously always; seldom, perhaps; the simplicity of loving grows by living simply near nature and God. -- Lucy Larcom
Hurricane Katrina overwhelmed levees and exploded the conventional wisdom about a shared American prosperity, exposing a group of people so poor they didn't have $50 for a bus ticket out of town. If we want to learn something from this disaster, the lesson ought to be: America's poor deserve better than this. -- Michael Eric Dyson
I was 22 and stopped writing plays, and I didn't start again until I was 25. I was writing badly. In college, I attempted to write these more conventional plays, but the theater I loved was downtown experimental theater. I didn't feel like I could do that either. It didn't occur to me to do my own thing. -- Annie Baker
I reject most conventional wisdom. -- Rush Limbaugh
I lead a very conventional life. -- Joan Didion
nothing is as conventional as adolescence. -- Margaret Deland
The conventional wisdom is often wrong. -- Steven Levitt
Never accept ultimatums, conventional wisdom, or absolutes. -- Christopher Reeve
I refuse to live a conventional life. -- Madonna Ciccone
I have some problems with conventional organized religion. -- J. K. Rowling
I'm not insane, I'm voluntarily indifferent to conventional rationality. -- Jared Leto
I have an instinctual distrust of conventional happy endings. -- George R. R. Martin
Doing the Muppet Show you forget about conventional filming. -- Peter Mayhew
The most conventional statements are both true and welcome. -- Judith Martin
Again, conventional Catholicism does not much appeal to me. -- Paul Farmer
You see, I am a very conventional scientist, really. -- Martin Fleischmann
I try to live holistically and avoid conventional medicine. -- Pamela Sue Martin
My childhood was as conventional as you could get. -- Lauren Groff
The customs of the world are so many conventional follies. -- Edgar Allan Poe
Question everything, even if it represents generations of conventional wisdom. -- Robert Ringer
Challenge conventional wisdom. There is almost always a better way. -- Ziad K. Abdelnour
There are no conventional games involving conditions of uncertainty without risk. -- Richard Arnold Epstein
Innovation for holders of conventional wisdom is not novelty but annihilation. -- Marshall McLuhan
One of the toughest battles in intelligence is combating conventional wisdom. -- Robert M. Gates
My religion centers in different areas than what's considered conventional religion. -- Jack Kevorkian
The subsistence level is only a conventional idea, and conventions change. -- Arthur Lewis
Even in so-called realist or conventional writing there can be defamiliarization. -- Leni Zumas
If one must fight one should confine oneself to conventional weapons. -- Mao Zedong
Who can begin conventional amiability the first thing in the morning? -- Elizabeth Von Arnim
Adultery is a most conventional way to rise above the conventional. -- Vladimir Nabokov
It's very conventional to say that you're a contrarian these days. -- Reid Hoffman
I'm not a conventional guy. I've never been a conventional guy. -- Dontrelle Willis
The 1960s were about releasing ourselves from conventional society and freeing ourselves. -- Yoko Ono
I've always wanted to lead an ordered, relatively conventional and private life. -- George Harrison
I'm not very good with conventional, prim-and-proper people who are well-behaved, grown-up. -- Lesley Nicol
It saves trouble to be conventional, for you're not always explaining things. -- Myrtle Reed
A dream is always simmering below the conventional surface of speech and reflection. -- George Santayana
The conventional definition of reality, and the idea of 'normal life', mean nothing. -- Sigmar Polke
Allow the brush to 'wander' above the realm of conventional judgement and practice. -- Joshua L. Goldberg
Art pierces opaque subjectivity, the not seeing of conventional life, and discloses reality. -- Langdon Brown Gilkey
Doubt the conventional wisdom unless you can verify it with reason and experiment -- Steve Albini
He was blessed with an unconventional mind, which overcame his conventional middle-class upbringing. -- Michael Lewis
The only way to get ahead is to find errors in conventional wisdom. -- Larry Ellison
We climbers have much to learn from the training done in conventional sports. -- Steve House
An artist who conforms to conventional ideas is nothing but a mere charlatan. -- Michael Bassey Johnson
The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking. -- John Kenneth Galbraith
Men are more conventional than women and much slower to change their ideas. -- Kathleen Norris
I'm kind of horny, conventional methods of making love kind of bore me. -- LL Cool J
No one is more conventional than a woman who is falling out of love. -- Francoise Sagan
I've always shied away from conventional wisdom, though I know the power of it. -- Peter Jennings
I am not concerned with truth, nor with conventional notions of what is beautiful. -- Mark Strand
The enemy of the conventional wisdom is not ideas but the march of events. -- John Kenneth Galbraith
In the real world of research, conventional tests of [statistical] significance seem almost worthless. -- Fischer Black
I'm not a conventional leading man at all and have no wish to be. -- Tim Curry
Thought and beauty, like a hurricane or waves, should not know conventional, delimited forms. -- Anton Chekhov
Of course, mothers were very conventional, everything was very conventional. You had to have approval. -- Jack Kirby
Anyone who was a rebel at one time in life cannot return to being conventional. -- Elsa Peretti
Israel specifically does not want Syria to hand over weapons, chemical or conventional, to Hezbollah. -- Richard Engel
He was too perplexed to please the conventional and too reverent. to please the infidels. -- Elton Trueblood
I'm a sworn enemy of convention. I despise the conventional in anything, even the arts. -- Hedy Lamarr
The vision of extraordinary achievement is,by definition, a few steps beyond consensus and conventional logic -- Scott Belsky

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