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Quotes About Conventional

The impact of human intention on physical systems within as well as outside the body has been scientifically demonstrated and reveals a shortcoming of the conventional medical paradigm and highlights a strength of the energy medicine paradigm.
~ Jed Diamond
Taking an active hand in evaluating alternatives is a task that is largely nonexistent in conventional selling.
~ Jeff Thull
The chapter ends by showing that nuclear war more closely approximates the model of torture than the model of conventional war because it is a structural impossibility that the populations whose bodies are used in the confirmation process can have exercised any consent over this use of their bodies.
~ Elaine Scarry
Getting out of a marriage is rough, though, and not just for the legal / financial complications or the massive lifestyle upheaval. (As my friend Deborah once advised me wisely: Nobody ever died from splitting up furniture.) It's the emotional recoil that kills you, the shock of stepping off the track of a conventional lifestyle and losing all the embracing comforts that keep so many people on that track forever.
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
May I assume that everything about a traditional wedding is repugnant and off-putting to you?" "That's correct.
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
It's the emotional recoil that kills you, the shock of stepping off the track of a conventional lifestyle and losing all the embracing comforts that keep so many people on that track forever.
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
It is easy to fool people into thinking I am like everyone else in encounters like this. If the other person likes to talk, as this woman did, it is easier. All I have to say are a few conventional things and smile, and it is done.
~ Elizabeth Moon
That's when I understood deeply that with all my studies of other religions, basically I really am devoted to Jesus. I am not a church-going Christian, not a conventional one by most standards, but in my heart, Jesus is my guru.
~ Ellen Burstyn
Contrary to conventional military and game theory, the most effective offense is sometimes a direct attack against your political opponent's greatest strength - not his weaknesses - to place him immediately on the defensive.
~ Mark McKinnon
By legitimizing Iran's nuclear program, removing the pressure of economic sanctions, and allowing it to obtain conventional weapons and ballistic missiles, this agreement makes the prospect for war more likely, not less.
~ J. B. Pritzker
Israel specifically does not want Syria to hand over weapons, chemical or conventional, to Hezbollah.
~ Richard Engel
Poland is one of the few countries that can afford to conduct a conventional monetary policy and that means we have to act against the buildup of imbalances in the economy.
~ Marek Belka
When you are shooting in a conventional way, you put nets around yourself. It's very hard to fall and hit the ground. You can always manipulate things to make it not embarrassing. If the scene is a little bit bad, you can polish it or even take it out. You can hide your mistakes.
~ Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
Look, I like my music, and I don't have a conventional background for a politician, but I'm pretty conventional in many senses.
~ Chuka Umunna
Again, conventional Catholicism does not much appeal to me.
~ Paul Farmer
The list of things that are conventional today that I use every day that I thought would never make it is a very long list.
~ Lloyd Blankfein
My childhood was as conventional as you could get.
~ Lauren Groff
I think I'm a difficult conventional writer.
~ Tom Stoppard
As for the once-revolutionary 'Agon,' after more than half a century, its lessons and revelations have been so absorbed into the language of ballet that it now seems almost conventional.
~ Robert Gottlieb
I'm very conventional compared to my parents.
~ Bryce Dallas Howard
I never thought I was going to be an architect in the conventional sense.
~ Elizabeth Diller
'Vetri Selvan' is the first film where I play a conventional romantic role, which I found very challenging.
~ Radhika Apte
I am an entrepreneur, but not in the conventional sense. I have learnt business as time passed, but I do not have a B-school education.
~ Ekta Kapoor
The truth was that I didn't want a career in the conventional business world.
~ Jedediah Bila