Conventional Quotes - Page 18

• The conventional notions of art have changed, and a lot of things done today are considered works of art that would have been rejected in the past.

  David Rockefeller

  Art, Past, Done

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Never accept ultimatums, conventional wisdom, or absolutes.

  Christopher Reeve

  Accepting, Ultimatum, Conventional Wisdom

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• I reject most conventional wisdom.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Conventional Wisdom, Rejects

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• I have an instinctual distrust of conventional happy endings.

  George R. R. Martin

  Happy Endings, Distrust

  "A conversation with Game of Thrones author George R. R. Martin". The Sydney Morning Herald Interview, www.smh.com.au. August 1, 2011.

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• The public history of modern art is the story of conventional people not knowing what they are dealing with.

  Golda Meir

  Art, Knowing, People

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• As a rule, I am very careful to be shallow and conventional where depth and originality are wasted.

  Lucy Maud Montgomery

  Depth, Originality, Shallow

  Lucy Maud Montgomery, Francis W. P. Bolger, Elizabeth R. Epperly (1992). “My dear Mr. M.: letters to G.B. MacMillan from L.M. Montgomery”, Oxford University Press, 1992

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• There's been a growing dissatisfaction and distrust with the conventional publishing industry, in that you tend to have a lot of formerly reputable imprints now owned by big conglomerates.

  Alan Moore

  Growing, Bigs, Distrust

  "Alan Moore On Watchmen’s 'Toxic Cloud' And Creativity V. Big Business". Interview with Susan Karlin, www.fastcompany.com. February 14, 2012.

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• Conventional show-biz savvy held that Americans hated to be the objects of satire.

  Carroll O'Connor

  Satire, Hated, Shows

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• The 1960s were about releasing ourselves from conventional society and freeing ourselves.

  Yoko Ono

  Artist, Aquarius, 1960s

  "Interview: Yoko Ono". www.askmen.com.

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• 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

  Games, People, Support

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• The early pioneers of both wellness and network marketing were motivated by the sense that it was possible to create a better life than the conventional routes offered - better personal health and better economic health, respectively. Now the 'alternatives' of yesterday have become the economic powerhouses of today and tomorrow.

  Paul Zane Pilzer

  Yesterday, Marketing, Today

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• People always blame the girl; she should have said no. A monosyllable, but conventional wisdom has always been that boys can't manage it.

  Anna Quindlen

  Girl, Wisdom, Boys

  "The Good Guys". The New York Times Opinion Page, www.nytimes.com. April 11, 1993.

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• Raising a child is a little like Picasso's work; in the beginning he did very conventional representational things. Cubism came after he had the rules down pat.

  Anna Quindlen

  Children, Littles, Cubism

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• My job involves searching for 'lost' quotations - that is, trying to find out who came up with a quotable saying that lingers in someone's mind and which they wish to use for their own purpose and which they cannot find in conventional dictionaries of quotation.

  Nigel Rees

  Jobs, Mind, Wish

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• Adultery is a most conventional way to rise above the conventional.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Way, Adultery, Rise Above

  Lectures on Literature "Madame Bovary" (1980)

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• There are many disturbing news. We believe that the production of conventional petroleum reached peak oil already in 2006. The oil fields in the North Sea and the US are collapsing ... time is running out.

  Fatih Birol

  Running, Believe, Sea

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• Around '93, '94, the conventional wisdom about the Internet was that it was a toy for academics and researchers. So it was very, very underestimated for about two years.

  Marc Andreessen

  Years, Two, Toys

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• Higher education is the place where people who had big plans in high school get stuck in fierce rivalries with equally smart peers over conventional careers like management consulting and investment banking. For the privilege of being turned into conformists, students (or their families) pay hundreds of thousands of dollars in skyrocketing tuition that continues to outpace inflation. Why are we doing this to ourselves?

  Peter Thiel

  Smart, School, Careers

  Peter Thiel, Blake Masters (2014). “Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future”, p.31, Crown Business

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• His musical inspiration operates in a world uncluttered by conventional bar lines, conventional chord changes, and conventional ways of blowing or fingering a saxophone. Such practical 'limitations' did not even have to be overcome in his music; they somehow never existed for him. Despite this - or more accurately, because of this - his playing has a deep inner logic. Not an obvious surface logic, it is based on subtleties of reaction, subtleties of timing and color that are, I think, quite new to jazz - at least they have never appeared in so pure and direct a form.

  Gunther Schuller

  Inspiration, Thinking, Color

  "All American Music: Composition in the Late Twentieth Century". Book by John Rockwell, 1983.

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• I propose getting rid of conventional armaments and replacing them with reasonably priced hydrogen bombs that will be distributed equally throughout the world.

  Idi Amin

  Hydrogen Bomb, Political, Bombs

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• I wish I could attribute the absence of any conventional Arab offensive in the last 20 years to a change of political climate or a willingness to abide by past accords. But unfortunately it is more likely that the Egyptians or Syrians concluded that the next time their tanks headed to Tel Aviv, there was nothing stopping the counterassaults from ending up in downtown Cairo or Damascus.

  Victor Davis Hanson

  Past, Years, Political

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• No one is more conventional than a woman who is falling out of love.

  Francoise Sagan

  Falling In Love, Fall

  "Those Without Shadows". Book by Françoise Sagan, 1957.

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• A language possesses utility only insofar as it can construct conventional boundaries. A language of no boundaries is no language at all, and thus the mystic who tries to speak logically and formally of unity consciousness is doomed to sound very paradoxical or contradictory. The problem is that the structure of any language cannot grasp the nature of unity consciousness, any more than a fork could grasp the ocean.

  Ken Wilber

  Ocean, Unity, Trying

  Ken Wilber (2001). “No Boundary: Eastern and Western Approaches to Personal Growth”, p.52, Shambhala Publications

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• Conventional economics is a form of brain damage.

  David Suzuki

  Brain, Damage, Economics

  "David Suzuki and Jeff Rubin form an unlikely alliance" by Monique Beaudin, montrealgazette.com. November 4, 2012.

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• Take a brilliant, creative social scientist, without any respect for conventional wisdom and you get Ellen Langer. She is a fantastic storyteller, and Counterclockwise is a fascinating story about the unexpected ways in which our minds and bodies are connected.

  Dan Ariely

  Creative, Mind, Stories

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