Conventional Quotes - Page 23

• A dream is always simmering below the conventional surface of speech and reflection.

  George Santayana

  Dream, Reflection, Speech

  George Santayana (2011). “The Life of Reason: Introduction and Reason in Common Sense”, p.33, MIT Press

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• In India, 'cold weather' is merely a conventional phrase and has come into use through the necessity of having some way to distinguish between weather which will melt a brass door-knob and weather which will only make it mushy.

  Mark Twain

  Sarcastic, Inspiration, Doors

  Mark Twain (2008). “Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World: Easyread Edition”, p.165, ReadHowYouWant.com

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• Sonically, musicians always go above and beyond in our efforts to disrupt radio. It's always about being different. Our radio is never conventional anyway.

  Pusha T

  Effort, Being Different, Musician

  Source: theneptunes.org

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• While THE NEW COOL takes the reader inside a season, limns a team and coaching staff, and masterfully recounts a gripping competition, this is anything but your conventional sports book. And not simply because the 'big game' is...a curious robotics contest. Like the kids he vividly captures, Neal Bascomb has himself performed a masterful bit of engineering here.

  L. Jon Wertheim

  Sports, Team, Book

  8 Copy quote

• It is unquestionably true that the investment companies have their money more conventionally invested than we do. To many people conventionality is indistinguishable from conservatism. In my view, this represents erroneous thinking. Neither a conventional nor an unconventional approach, per se, is conservative.

  Warren Buffett

  Thinking, Views, People

  7 Copy quote

• I read the other day some verses written by an eminent painter which were original and not conventional.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Painter, Verses, Originals

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.259, Library of America

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• ...I am afraid that education is conceived more in terms of indoctrination by most school officials than in terms of enlightenment. My own belief is that education must be subversive if it is to be meaningful. By this I mean that it must challenge all the things we take for granted, examine all accepted assumptions, tamper with every sacred cow, and instill a desire to question and doubt. Without this the mere instruction to memorise data is empty. The attempt to enforce conventional mediocrity on the young is criminal.

  Bertrand Russell

  Meaningful, School, Data

  16 Copy quote

• In most instances, biotechnology, though a radically different approach, is a sustaining technology: It's a dramatically improved way of targeting problems that we hadn't been able to solve with the conventional approach of mainstream pharmaceutical companies.

  Clayton Christensen

  Technology, Able, Way

  Source: www.strategy-business.com

  23 Copy quote

  Show source

• I would drink and drink and then at 3 o'clock in the morning take anything that was put in front of me. And I'd sometimes be disappointed when conventional things were put in front of me. Like, I'd do a line of something and be disappointed to find it was just cocaine.

  Moby

  Morning, Lines, Sometimes

  Source: thequietus.com

  12 Copy quote

  Show source

• I think the conventional wisdom is vastly true. There will be a huge growth in mobile, and this is something we are witnessing every day.

  Maurice Levy

  Thinking, Growth, Conventional Wisdom

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• I disagree that Blood Will Out is a memoir in the conventional sense. It's the story of a relationship, primarily, not an individual. The "me" in the book is a specialized version of me, the person who Clark manipulated and fooled. I could cover the same years of my life from an entirely different perspective in another book, by concentrating on my experience as a husband, say. But I was selective. I focused on my duping.

  Walter Kirn

  Husband, Book, Blood

  Source: therumpus.net

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Even in so-called realist or conventional writing there can be defamiliarization.

  Leni Zumas

  Writing, Realist

  Source: therumpus.net

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I think The Magicians takes these conventional ideas from this Christian literature of good vs. evil and it sort of shakes it up and asks a deeper, darker question about the nature of not just humanity in the face of good vs. evil, but the challenges of everyday life. And I think there's something incredibly timely about that and incredibly relatable to anyone who's growing up. Because we're all growing up. We're all constantly evolving.

  Hale Appleman

  Christian, Growing Up, Thinking

  "Why Eliot on The Magicians Is the Fantasy Character We've All Been Waiting For". Interview with Kelsie Gibson, www.popsugar.com. February 9, 2016.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• When I did find guys with whom I was very sexually compatible, trying to figure out how romance worked... when you're a gay guy you don't necessarily have that same push to make a conventional relationship work.

  Guy Branum

  Gay, Guy, Romance

  Source: www.avclub.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• In a sense these are questions that most people ask themselves to some extent. They become philosophical when asked with a persistence and rigour that pushes past conventional or evasive answers. It's nothing to do with acquiring a technical facility in an academic discipline.

  George Pattison

  Philosophical, Persistence, Past

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• In Buddhist ideology, the conventional self is that which is constructed in a way by the use of the pronoun, and when you realize there is no absolute ego there, no disconnected one, self, or ego, then that actually strengthens your conventional ego. It does so in the sense that then you realize it's a construction, and you can strengthen it in order to help others, or do whatever you're trying to do, it's not like you no longer know who you are. Then you can organize your behavior by using your ego, as it's now the pronoun.

  Robert Thurman

  Buddhist, Helping Others, Self

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• I'm grateful for the likes of Kundera, Murnane, Markson, Berger, and, in his recent work, Coetzee. But no matter how celebrated they are, critics still consider them askance. Elizabeth Costello, for example, is a great novel, but it got quite a critical panning when it was published. The complaint was that it was simply a book of speeches, without the machinery of conventional fiction. Markson's books are compilations of facts and alleged facts, very artfully.

  Teju Cole

  Grateful, Book, Speech

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Finally, this is one way to reconcile the delight in beauty with the bourgeois life. Aschenbach, on one reading, has spent virtually all of his adult life balancing his restrained homosexuality, which is bound together with his sensitivity to beauty and thus with his artistic vocation, against the demands of conventional society.

  Philip Kitcher

  Reading, Together, Adults

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Conventional psychiatry has emphasized the genetic roots of psychosis based on the claim that twin and other studies show that schizophrenia is 80% heritable, which means that 80% of the cause is genetic.

  Richard Bentall

  Mean, Psychosis, Roots

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• I think Senator [Ted] Cruz's strategy is that there's 4.5 million, 5 million Republicans that didn't vote in 2012. This is the conventional wisdom and they didn't vote because they didn't like the nominee, wasn't conservative enough, or there was a religious component. Who knows what?

  Rush Limbaugh

  Religious, Thinking, Conservative

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• The conventional wisdom of fandom is that you must give your fans anything they want. But I've never felt that that's a healthy attitude - and that comes from being a Star Wars fan.

  DJ Shadow

  Stars, Attitude, War

  Source: pitchfork.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I'm really not working in a environment that's sonically pristine. It's not a conventional studio, obviously; it's a bit ramshackle.

  Julia Kent

  Environment, Studios, Pristine

  Source: pitchfork.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Two sons, they'll both be presidents after they win their Nobel Prizes. And the daughters, they'll be prima ballerinas before they become the president of Princeton and start their Internet company. And I just started to think about What's the conventional load of those expectations you carry around? You have to pull them out one by one and smash them in the corner. You realize the pile is quite high. But in a way, it becomes oddly liberating to do that.

  Ron Suskind

  Daughter, Son, Winning

  Source: www.esquire.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• If Americans were attacked, it does change the equation. The problem is, is that with regard to this is there've been horrendous killings of civilians with conventional weapons.

  Rand Paul

  Weapons, Doe, Problem

  "Rand Paul On Syria: 'I Think There's Evil On Both Sides'". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. September 11, 2013.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• If you move furniture all day, if you're a construction worker, if you have a job that's real physical, this idea that there is a sport that involves the kind of conventional, traditional view of toughness, you see that still as a positive thing.

  Chuck Klosterman

  Sports, Jobs, Real

  "Chuck Klosterman: The future will be worse than you think". Interview with Chris Weller, www.businessinsider.com. June 6, 2016.

  5 Copy quote

  Show source