Conventional Ways Quotes

• Difficult times disrupt your conventional ways of thinking and push you to forge better habits of thought, performance and being.

  Robin Sharma

  Thinking, Way, Difficult Times

  7 Copy quote

• I love the medium of photography, for with its unique realism it gives me the power to go beyond conventional ways of seeing and understanding and say, This is real, too.

  Wynn Bullock

  Photography, Real, Unique

  Wynn Bullock, Barbara Bullock-Wilson (1984). “Wynn Bullock, photographing the nude: the beginnings of a quest for meaning”, Gibbs Smith

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• The first principle is that you must not fool yourself—and you are the easiest person to fool. So you have to be very careful about that. After you’ve not fooled yourself, it’s easy not to fool other scientists. You just have to be honest in a conventional way after that.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Principles, Way, Fool

  Richard P Feynman (2014). “Surely You're Joking Mr Feynman: Adventures of a Curious Character as Told to Ralph Leighton”, p.343, Random House

  13 Copy quote

  Show source

• The people who do make big discoveries are the ones who somehow manage to free themselves from conventional ways of thinking and to see the subject from a new perspective.

  Anthony James Leggett

  Thinking, Discovery, People

  Interview with Joanna Rose, www.nobelprize.org. December 09, 2003.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• There's all of the DVD extra material and all these other pieces of information that don't fit into a 90-minute experience, but it's still content and people still want to see it. It's being open to [the fact that] the business is changing and being open to how you can make money to afford you to stay in business to keep making new things. I think you just have to have an open mind and be really smart about stuff and not be so locked into the conventional way of how the process used to go.

  Alex Stapleton

  Smart, Thinking, Dvds

  Source: collider.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• That was Robert Aldrich. And that [Emperor Of The North] was one of the only times I actually got a part in a movie in the conventional way: The role was there, I auditioned, I auditioned again, and then I actually did a full-fledged screen test, which they shot on a soundstage on the lot at 20th Century Fox. They put up a set, and Robert Aldrich actually directed me in this screen test.

  Keith Carradine

  Roles, Tests, Way

  Source: www.avclub.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I wonder if I would have been capable of producing anything if I worked in a more conventional way with a prewritten script, because I'm of the procrastinator class.

  Mike Leigh

  Class, Way, Scripts

  Interview with Chloe Veltman, www.believermag.com. March/April 2009.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Tolerance of diversity is imperative, because without it, life would lose its savor. Progress in the arts, in the sciences, in the patterns of social adjustment springs from diversity and depends upon a tolerance of individual deviations from conventional ways and attitudes.

  Alan Barth

  Art, Attitude, Spring

  6 Copy quote

• The status quo is a very powerful opiate and when you have a system that seems to be working and producing profits by the conventional way of accounting for profits. It's very hard to make yourself change. But we all know that change is an inevitable part of business. Once you have ridden a wave just so far, you have to get another wave. We all know that. For us, becoming restorative has been that new wave and we have been riding it for 13 years now. It's been incredibly good for business.

  Ray Anderson

  Business, Powerful, Responsibility

  10 Copy quote

• I saw that we needed to grow but our top line wasn't growing, so we had to find other ways to grow the business. We had to reshape our business and acquire share in a non conventional way. But most tech leaders don't come out of a business background. They really have a parochial point of view. All they know are the go-go years of Silicon Valley. That's the environment in which they were raised.

  Larry Ellison

  Inspirational, Views, Years

  4 Copy quote

• People take conventional ways that other people have always decorated their cars, and use them as ways of giving other people permission to approach them.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  People, Giving, Car

  Interview with Jeff Sartain, strangehorizons.com. October 16, 2006.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Tourism requires that you see conventional things, and that you see them in a conventional way.

  Paul Fussell

  Tourism, Way, Conventional

  7 Copy quote

• For me to want to be an actor was an improbable idea. I wasn't beautiful or pretty in any conventional way. I wasn't an ingenue at 22. But I was always certain of it and certain of its power. I felt the power when I went to the theater at 9, 10, 12 and 14.

  Linda Hunt

  Beautiful, Ideas, Actors

  5 Copy quote

• Part of the heart of anarchy is, dare to go against the grain of the conventional ways of thinking about our realities. Anarchists have always gone against the grain, and that's been a place of hope.

  Bell Hooks

  Heart, Reality, Thinking

  "How Do You Practice Intersectionalism? An Interview with bell hooks". Interview with Randy Lowens, nefac.net. March 15, 2012.

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• Adultery is a most conventional way to rise above the conventional.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Way, Adultery, Rise Above

  Lectures on Literature "Madame Bovary" (1980)

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Our English monarchs are so unimaginative,” said Eldric. “They execute people in such tediously conventional ways.

  Franny Billingsley

  People, Way, Said

  Franny Billingsley (2013). “Chime”, p.48, A&C Black

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Look, whenever I hear or read I’m beautiful, I simply don’t understand it … I’m certainly not beautiful in any conventional way. I didn't make my career on beauty.

  Audrey Hepburn

  Beauty, Beautiful, Careers

  9 Copy quote

• I started to itch to do a play again and 'Macbeth' came to the surface in my mind. I never thought I would do it in a conventional way. A sweaty Macbeth with blood on his arms coming in fresh from the battle doesn't interest me.

  Alan Cumming

  Blood, Play, Mind

  "Alan Cumming To Strip Off In One-man MacBeth" by wenn.com, June 7, 2012.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• One needs to be successful in the conventional way to learn just how far away from success it may be.

  Henry Ford

  Successful, Needs, May

  17 Copy quote

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

  John Maynard Keynes

  Bankers, Sound, Investing

  "The Consequences to the Banks of the Collapse of Money Values" (1931)

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• His musical inspiration operates in a world uncluttered by conventional bar lines, conventional chord changes, and conventional ways of blowing or fingering a saxophone. Such practical 'limitations' did not even have to be overcome in his music; they somehow never existed for him. Despite this - or more accurately, because of this - his playing has a deep inner logic. Not an obvious surface logic, it is based on subtleties of reaction, subtleties of timing and color that are, I think, quite new to jazz - at least they have never appeared in so pure and direct a form.

  Gunther Schuller

  Inspiration, Thinking, Color

  "All American Music: Composition in the Late Twentieth Century". Book by John Rockwell, 1983.

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• Horror need not always be a long-fanged gentleman in evening clothes or a dismembered corpse or a doctor who keeps a brain in his gold fish bowl. It may be a warm sunny day, the innocence of girlhood and hints of unexplored sexuality that combine to produce a euphoria so intense it becomes transporting, a state beyond life or death. Such horror is unspeakable not because it is gruesome but because it remains outside the realm of things that can be easily defined or explained in conventional ways.

  Vincent Canby

  Clothes, Doctors, Long

  4 Copy quote

• I don't think Jimi committed suicide in the conventional way. He just decided to exit when he wanted to.

  Eric Burdon

  Suicide, Thinking, Way

  12 Copy quote

• The absurd, with its rupture of rationality-of conventional ways of seeing the world-is in fact an accurate and a productive way of understanding the world.

  William Kentridge

  Understanding, World, Rupture

  64 Copy quote

• People should think things out fresh and not just accept conventional terms and the conventional way of doing things.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Creativity, Apology, Thinking

  "The Peter Plan: A Proposal for Survival". Book by Laurence J. Peter, 1977.

  13 Copy quote

  Show source