Quotes About Conventional

I'm like the guy who prepares your taxes or a dentist. I'm very conservative and boring in a lot of ways.

I think that teaching coaches are the norm now.

transition to mechanisms for getting to scale, fast. The business that has been protected from conventional disciplines (such as producing return on investment)

People who begin sentences with "I may be old-fashioned but—" are usually not only old-fashioned but wrong.

He is only fanastical that is not in fashion.

The strategies that succeed in war, whether conventional or unconventional, are based on timeless psychology, and great military failures have much to teach us about human stupidity and the limits of force in any arena.

But what's happening is that each year our old flat earth of conventional reason becomes less and less adequate to handle the experiences we have and this is creating widespread feelings of topsy turviness. As a result we're getting more and more people in irrational areas of thought-- occultism, mysticism, drug changes and the like-- because they feel the inadequacy of classical reason to handle what they know are real experiences.

This educated middle class subscribes to the dogma put out by mutual-fund brokers and financial planners: "Play it safe. Avoid risk.

Later, she also saw that innocence need be nothing of the kind, and that conventional morality might have its own impurity.

I do not like odd things until I can understand them.

Society is always taken by surprise at any new example of common sense.

And yet, troublingly, there is one difference between 'labour' and other elements [raw materials, machinery] which conventional economics does not have a means to represent, or give weight to, but which is nevertheless unavoidably present in the world: the fact that labour feels pain.

My fellow academics, taken as a group, are just as reluctant to engage in genuine reflection as the less highly educated person in the street. Academics have always been afflicted by unusually high levels of conformity to expectations: one of the chief ways you prove yourself worthy of an academic life is by getting very good grades, and you don't get very good grades without saying the sorts of things that your professors like to hear.*6

Vijaya is conventional victory, victory over the other, over other's minds, a victory where there are winners and losers. Jaya, on the other hand, is victory over oneself, over one's mind, a victory where there are no losers. At

For all the boredom the straight life brings, it's not too bad.

There is nothing more vulgar than a petty bourgeois life with its halfpence, its victuals, its futile talk, and its useless conventional virtue.

Ideals are replaced by conventional goals at a certain age.

often finds a more interesting story behind the conventional one. Martin Luther's supposedly revolutionary resistance to indulgences took place in a German state where they were sold. Even more intriguing, they weren't sold because the ruling authorities there get a brisk business in holy relics – which Luther left alone.

Whenever I write about mental health and integrative therapies, I am accused of being prejudiced against pharmaceuticals. So let me be clear - integrative medicine is the judicious application of both conventional and evidence-based natural therapies.

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If you do not want an average life, you must be on guard against, and quietly suspicious of, conclusions made by conventional thinking.

It will be a pity if women in the more conventional mould are to be phased out, for there will never be anyone to go home to.

Whenever I write about mental health and integrative therapies, I am accused of being prejudiced against pharmaceuticals. So let me be clear - integrative medicine is the judicious application of both conventional and evidence-based natural therapies.

The spiritual ambiguity growing up made me really latch onto a faith - Protestantism - that was somewhat conventional. Everyone else was rebelling against traditions and institutions, whereas I was rebelling against the upheaval and uncertainty in my family.