Quotes About Conventional

I don't know why people keep banging on about the '60s. I came from a conventional family and I didn't go off with different people - I rather wish I had now, seeing all the fun everyone else was having.

My childhood was as conventional as you could get. I think I probably created 'Arcadia' with a certain amount of wishful thinking. I would have loved to have more looseness and freedom and community.

Sanity is only that which is within the frame of reference of conventional thought.

Obsession with conventional ideas of 'success' can be harmful enough, but compound that stress with relationships, family, financial woes and health concerns, and you find yourself in a constant state of fight or flight. This causes people to be more reactionary, which further perpetuates the cycle of stress.

There are a lot of experimental novels that test the boundaries of what the novel is, and 'Conversations' is not one of those. It's conventional in its structure, even though its prose style and the themes it explores and the politics that underpin it, maybe, are on the experimental side. Its basic structure is pretty conventional.

Economists often like startling theorems, results which seem to run counter to conventional wisdom.

On a conventional film, you do one take, and if it's good, they say, 'Let's do another one for insurance.'

Bo... bo... nie wypada - No widzisz. Twoja odpowied? nic nie znaczy, nie wytrzymuje analizy intelektualnej. Jest typow? odpowiedzi? konwencjonaln?.

Among the world's religions, perhaps the best-known examples are Lao Tzu in China and the Buddha in India. Within the tradition of Israel, the authors of Job and Ecclesiastes are voices of an alternative wisdom that challenged the conventional wisdom of their day.

Snakes. How fitting. Not only are they sacred to Egypt, but associated with the power of the underworld and with fertility. Perhaps I did you a favor by refusing more conventional poisons.

A philistine is a full-grown person whose interests are of a material and commonplace nature, and whose mentality is formed of the stock ideas and conventional ideals of his or her group and time.

Implosion is no invention in the conventional sense, but rather the renaissance of ancient knowledge, lost over the course of time.

One of the useful things about age is realizing conventional wisdom is often simply inertia with a candy coating of conformity.

My doctor says that, contrary to conventional wisdom, she doesn't believe our memories flag because of a drop in estrogen but because of how crowded it in the drawers of our minds.

Conventional wisdom is that you should find a job that matches your passion. I think this is backwards.

Is it the factitious and the conventional that most surely succeed on earth and in the course of life?

Jefferson attributes to a college professor and mentor his lifelong habit of questioning conventional wisdom.

The enemy of the conventional wisdom is not ideas but the march of events.

The hallmark of the conventional wisdom is acceptability. It has the approval of those to whom it is addressed.

The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking.

No doubt I do act in 'bad faith' when I deliberately avoid facing an honest decision and follow the conventional pattern of behavior in order to be spared the anxiety that comes when one is... thrown into seventy thousand fathoms.

A 'sound' banker, alas, is not one who sees danger and avoids it, but one who, when he is ruined, is ruined in a conventional and orthodox way along with his fellows, so that no one can really blame him.

He who is lawless is free. Necessity and time are conventional phenomena. Without hypocrisy or fear ye could do as ye wish

Anything popular is populist, and populist is rarely a good adjective.