Quotes About Conventional

I'm particularly interested in black swan events: unprecedented surprises that destroy the conventional wisdom about how the world works.

When you're allowed to tell stories with ambiguity and darkness and things that are still unresolved, that's the dream scenario as opposed to having to fit into a more procedural mode or something a little more conventional. That's not what's working on TV right now.

I was a good novice teacher, but I did the things that were obvious. I stayed for lunch for extra tutoring, gave kids my cell phone, and was available. In my first year of teaching, I ended up doubling the math time that a conventional school would have. But I don't think any of these things were path-breaking or unusual.

I don't think of myself as a maverick at all. Quite the opposite - I really think of myself as quite conventional but dispersed over unusual territory.

Personally, I've realized that the tradition I thought of as too safe, too pretty, and too conventional is the space where women have been able to gain some practical ground. The area of music where we thought the status quo was really being upset - specifically hard rock - has actually remained the most male-dominated.

The conventional way of selling products out of the catalogue no longer works; the relationship needs to become more sticky.

I was attracted to filmmaking in college because of my love of storytelling. You can have such an impact and reach a broader audience than conventional journalism.

I'm quite lucky in that at certain angles I look all right, and at others I don't look so good, which enables me to play some leading roles and some stranger, more 'character'-type parts. I wouldn't say I'm the conventional handsome Hollywood leading man.

I think in conventional magazine wisdom, you need to have a redesign every decade or so.

The Dorm Room Diet is nothing like the conventional diets you may have tried in the past. It offers guidelines for creating a healthy lifestyle on your own, without the daunting restrictions of a quick-fix diet.

When you're about to get married, and then you're not, it's all a big shock. You think, 'Well, okay, so I'm never going to lead a totally conventional life now.'

I'm old school.

I'm a bit old-fashioned. I like the idea of going to the cinema and then an Italian restaurant.

I'm an old-fashioned girl.

I think I'm very old-fashioned.

I am ridiculously old-fashioned.

I'm a little old-fashioned.

I'm old-fashioned.

It's probably conventional wisdom now that you bring openness of markets only after the market has developed to a certain level.

The company-as-a-machine model fits how people think about and operate conventional companies. And, of course, it fits how people think about changing conventional companies: You have a broken company, and you need to change it, to fix it.

Nothing is stronger than Custom (Fac tibi consuescat: nil adsuetudine maius)

the true stature of a great work may not at first be recognized by those of a more conventional cast of mind.

The body's a funny thing. It's so full of surprises that it makes conventional wisdom seem silly.

Users of clichés frequently have more sinister intentions beyond laziness and conventional thinking. Relabelling events often entails subtle changes of meaning. War produces many euphemisms, downplaying or giving verbal respectability to savagery and slaughter.