It’s really important, whether you’re a conservative or a liberal, to always challenge the conventional wisdom, which is what I’ve tried to do in all my work.
Don’t worry too much if you don’t pass exams, so long as you feel you have understood the subject. It’s amazing what you can get by the ability to reason things out by conventional methods, getting down to the basics of what is happening.
I can cook to please people, but it’s quite conventional. I make a good sponge cake. I find it hard to follow recipes.
Large conventional power plants will continue to be built, but their significance for energy supply is diminishing.
I am not saying that those who crave for conventional stardom are wrong in their aspirations. But that’s not what I want.
When we are younger, we say a lot of things without often believing in them. The thoughts within you are much more important, and so often, one can’t completely describe what one feels. As we grow older, we realize that there is more to love than what is expressed in the conventional sense of the terms.
We just don’t subscribe to the conventional wisdom that you can’t have an action series led by a female character. It’s kinda nonsense to us.
To suggest that organic vegetables, which cost far more than conventional produce, can feed billions of people in parts of the world without roads or proper irrigation may be a fantasy based on the finest intentions. But it is a cruel fantasy nonetheless.
Conventional companies try to find new uses for capabilities they already have. Transformers look at what the market needs and then go build it, hiring new people and/or taking people off other jobs.
I never cared about making one coherent masterpiece with a conventional narrative. I always wanted my movies to have images falling from all directions in a vaudevillian way. If you didn’t like what was happening in one scene, you could just snooze through it until the next scene.
What a company’s been earning doesn’t mean anything. What you have to look at is what people think it’s going to earn. If you can see something in two years is going to be entirely different than the conventional wisdom, that’s how you make money.
Inevitably, the world of ‘communications’ / PR / advertising / marketing is full of charlatans flogging snake oil. It is therefore very easy to do things and spend money just because it’s conventional.
I’m not a money manager, but I can tell you what the conventional wisdom is. The younger you are, the more risk you can take on.
What’s different now is that while political leaders used to give talking points to talk radio, now talk-radio hosts are giving talking points to political leaders. It’s all part of the suffocating spin cycle we’re in. In media, politics and publishing, the conventional wisdom is to play to this base.
My nighttime look is exactly like my daytime look – like I’m going to a super fancy funeral. I guess it would be considered extreme to most people, but I like it that way. The idea of conventional beauty isn’t attractive to me… that’s why, when I was growing up, I felt kind of torn about makeup.
In most conventional novels, God is not allowed to be nuts. Nor are nuts allowed to be God.
Until there are tangible metrics for quantifying the real value of a token’s utility, the gap between value and valuation will continue to defy conventional wisdom and conventional valuation methods.
There are retailers successfully combining conventional and online retail, like Argos or John Lewis.
I’ve always said time and time again that I hate anything conventional.
I have an instinctual distrust of conventional happy endings.
I love the early sonatas; I love the early Mozart, period. I’m really fond of that moment when he was either emulating Haydn or Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach or anybody but himself. The moment he found himself, as conventional wisdom would have it, at the age of 18 or 19 or 20, I stop being so interested in him.
If I think back to the eighties, my methods weren’t conventional, but they got results.
After 9/11, a few hundred CIA and Special Operations personnel, backed by airpower and Afghan militias, devastated Taliban and al-Qaeda forces. That effort has since turned into a conventional Pentagon nation-building exercise and gone backward.
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.
I’m not conventional. I try to be raw and vulnerable and gross.
While conducting a conventional war in Iraq and Syria, ISIS has staged terrorist attacks on a global scale against the people from the countries who are fighting ISIS.
You can do a formula film and walk the conventional path, but it may not work at all.
I lead a very conventional life.
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.’
When you hear someone talking in a restaurant or overhear someone talking on the street, there are very different patterns of conversation than you would hear in a conventional movie.
Conventional show-biz savvy held that Americans hated to be the objects of satire.
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.
I’m very conventional compared to my parents.
A unique style comes from not being able to do things in a conventional manner. If David Byrne could have sung like Paul McCartney, he would have.
We are aiming to create a new genre with a new style in terms of visuals and sound. A mixture of dance and metal which strays away from the traditional or conventional metal band.
My religion centers in different areas than what’s considered conventional religion.
I lead a very conventional life. I don’t lead a writer’s life. And I think that can be a source of suspicion and irritation to some people. This was more true when I was living in California, when I didn’t lead a writer’s life at all.
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.
I don’t use conventional voices for my compositions.
My second novel, ‘The Luminaries,’ is set in the New Zealand gold rushes of the 1860s, though it’s not really a historical novel in the conventional sense. So far, I’ve been describing it as ‘an astrological murder mystery.’
U.S. adversaries exploit power gaps. It’s easier for Russia to invade Ukraine with irregular forces out of uniform, the so-called ‘little green men,’ than to send a conventional army that would challenge NATO.
I don’t want to go with conventional thinking.
I am not bothered with whether my characters are conventional or not. Because I am not in this for the designer labels and the autographs.
Osama bin Laden, the person, more likely serves the function of a stand-in. Compare the new terrorists with partisans or conventional terrorists in Israel. These people often fight in a decentralized manner in small, autonomous units, too.
The Keystone XL project has built strong safety measures into its design with the newest technology. Additionally, 80 percent of the new Canadian oil sands are being developed ‘in situ,’ meaning, it has a similar carbon footprint and emissions as conventional oil wells.
I am not a conventional hero. I am a regular guy trying to entertain people.
Israel specifically does not want Syria to hand over weapons, chemical or conventional, to Hezbollah.
I first read ‘The Lord of the Rings’ as an adolescent. It’s a dense novel, a sprawling, complex monster of a book populated with a prolific number of characters caught up in a narrative structure that, frankly, does not lend itself to conventional storytelling.
The conventional Aristotelian plot proceeds by means of a protagonist, an antagonist, and a series of events comprising a rising action, climax and denouement.
Just look at what is right in front of you. People don’t do that. They see what they expect to see, what they want to see, what conventional wisdom tells them to see. They only hear the music and not the lyrics of human events.
Never accept ultimatums, conventional wisdom, or absolutes.
I don’t think that I’m a pop star. On paper, I’m bad at being a pop star with the conventional idea people have.
The subsistence level is only a conventional idea, and conventions change.
I am probably an outsider because I challenge conventional narratives about who should have a seat at the table.
I’m seeing and hearing lots of B to B instruments, and everybody isn’t, you know, using them… a lot of these guys are trying to do it on conventional guitars, although that has its own sound, and maybe its okay.
The other advantage is that in conventional manufacturing processes, it takes a long time for a factory to produce an amount of product equal to its own weight. With molecular machines, the time required would be something more like a minute.
It may sound terrible, but I often say that the military saved me from a conventional life in the United States and I’ve never really thanked them for it, because I haven’t exactly been pro-military in my work.
