Conventional Quotes - Page 6

• We can't any longer have the conventional understanding of genetics which everybody peddles because it is increasingly obvious that epigenetics - actually things which influence the genome's function - are much more important than we realised.

  Robert Winston

  Understanding, Important, Influence

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• Many people have their reputations as reporters and analysts because they are on television, batting around conventional wisdom. A lot of these people have never reported a story.

  Bob Woodward

  Wisdom, People, Stories

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• Microcredit has shown how you can reach out to people that conventional banking cannot. It has demonstrated that it's a doable proposition.

  Muhammad Yunus

  People, Banking, Reach Out

  "Create social business funds in each country and city". Interview with David Bornstein, www.thedailystar.net. April 19, 2013.

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• Hurricane Katrina overwhelmed levees and exploded the conventional wisdom about a shared American prosperity, exposing a group of people so poor they didn't have $50 for a bus ticket out of town. If we want to learn something from this disaster, the lesson ought to be: America's poor deserve better than this.

  Michael Eric Dyson

  America, People, Deserve Better

  "Come Hell or High Water". Book by Michael Eric Dyson, www.today.com. 2006.

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• Experimental architecture by its very nature is more prone to the depredations of time and natural elements than buildings made from conventional materials through traditional methods. Avant-garde architects often simply do not know how the products of their imagination will perform when implemented, especially if untested components are involved.

  Martin Filler

  Imagination, Avant Garde, Natural Elements

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• Conventional Indian cinema is about people falling in love. They sing, they dance.

  Anurag Kashyap

  Falling In Love, People, Cinema

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• If you free yourself from the conventional reaction to a quantity like a million years, you free yourself a bit from the boundaries of human time. And then in a way you do not live at all, but in another way you live forever.

  John McPhee

  Years, Forever, Way

  John McPhee (2000). “Annals of the Former World”, p.88, Macmillan

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• Conventional opinion is the ruin of our souls.

  Rumi

  Spiritual, Courage, Soul

  Mevlana Jalaluddin Rumi (2008). “The Pocket Rumi”, p.145, Shambhala Publications

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• 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

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• I believe that the place where an animal dies is a sacred one. There is a need to bring ritual into the conventional slaughter plants and use as a means to shape people's behavior. It would help prevent people from becoming numbed, callous, or cruel. The ritual could be something very simple, such as a moment of silence. In addition to developing better designs and making equipment to insure the humane treatments of all animals, that would be my contribution.

  Temple Grandin

  Believe, Mean, Animal

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  I’m not insane, I’m voluntarily indifferent to conventional rationality.

  Jared Leto

  Insane, Indifferent, Rationality

  FaceBook post by Jared Leto from Aug 04, 2013

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• I did something that challenged the banking world.
  Conventional banks look for the rich; we look for the absolutely poor.
  All people are entrepreneurs, but many don't have the opportunity to find that out.

  Muhammad Yunus

  Inspirational, Opportunity, People

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• There is no excuse for deceiving children. And when, as must happen in conventional families, they find that their parents have lied, they lose confidence in them and feel justified in lying to them.

  Bertrand Russell

  Education, Children, Lying

  Bertrand Russell (1957). “Why I Am Not a Christian: And Other Essays on Religion and Related Subjects”, p.177, Simon and Schuster

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• What really matters for success, character, happiness and life long achievements is a definite set of emotional skills - your EQ - not just purely cognitive abilities that are measured by conventional IQ tests.

  Daniel Goleman

  Leadership, Character, Emotional

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• Contrary to conventional wisdom, dance is not a universal 'language' but many languages and dialects. There are close to 6000 verbal languages, and probably that many dance languages.

  Judith Lynne Hanna

  Dance, Dialect, Language

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• 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

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• I'm a sworn enemy of convention. I despite the conventional in anything, even the arts. I paint canvasses on the floor and drove one art teacher out of his mind. But that's just the way I paint best.

  Hedy Lamarr

  Teacher, Art, Mind

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• I think conventional wisdom is that time is not on our side. But there are a number of members of Congress who have primaries and when those primaries are done, they may be more inclined to address the issue of comprehensive immigration reform.

  John McCain

  Thinking, Numbers, Issues

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• Saddam Hussein had a lengthy history of reckless and sudden aggression. He cultivated ties to terror -- hosting the Abu Nidal organization, supporting terrorists, and making payments to the families of suicide bombers. He also had an established relationship with Al Qaida -- providing training to Al Qaida members in areas of poisons, gases and conventional bombs. He built, possessed, and used weapons of mass destruction.

  Dick Cheney

  Suicide, Mass Destruction, Organization

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• 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.

  Anita Brookner

  Women, Home, Pity

  Anita Brookner (1987). “A friend from England”, Pantheon

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• I've got a funny old face. Someone described it once, and I think they were being kind, as character. But I know what they mean! I've never been that conventional. I suppose maybe it means that my face can look different in different lights, so I just try and sort of keep it simple when I'm going out, to still look like me.

  Cate Blanchett

  Character, Mean, Makeup

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• A religion old or new, that stressed the magnificence of the universe as revealed by modern science, might be able to draw forth reserves of reverence and awe hardly tapped by the conventional faiths. Sooner or later such a religion will emerge.

  Carl Sagan

  Science, Religion, Stressed

  Carl Sagan, Ann Druyan (2011). “Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space”, p.71, Ballantine Books

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• Sadness, seriousness are parts of a psychologically sick man - they need causes. So when you are feeling happy, don't start asking, "Why am I happy?" When you are feeling sad ask why you are sad. But strangely, it has become conventional to our minds that when we are sad we accept it as if it is our nature. And when we are joyous even we are surprised; deep inside we even start worrying: "What is happening to me?"

  Rajneesh

  Sadness, Men, Asking Why

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• Western liberal humanism is not something that comes naturally to us: like an appreciation of art or poetry, it has to be cultivated. Humanism is itself a religion without God-not all religions, of course, are theistic. Our ethical secular ideal has it's own disciplines of mind and heart and gives people the means of finding faith in the ultimate meaning of human life that were once provided by the more conventional religions.

  Karen Armstrong

  Appreciation, Art, Mean

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• Users of clichés frequently have more sinister intentions beyond laziness and conventional thinking. Relabelling events often entails subtle changes of meaning. War produces many euphemisms, downplaying or giving verbal respectability to savagery and slaughter.

  Patrick Cockburn

  War, Thinking, Giving

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