Conventional is not for me. I like things that are uniquely Flo. I like being different. Votes: 4
Florence Griffith JoynerConventional show-biz savvy held that Americans hated to be the objects of satire. Votes: 3
Carroll O'ConnorConventional Indian cinema is about people falling in love. They sing, they dance. Votes: 3
Anurag KashyapConventional economic theory... counts the depletion of resources as the accumulation of wealth. Votes: 3
Mark LynasConventional manners are a kind of literacy test for the alien who comes among us. Votes: 3
Katharine Fullerton GerouldDoubt the conventional wisdom unless you can verify it with reason and experiment. Votes: 2
Steve AlbiniSanity is only that which is within the frame of reference of conventional thought. Votes: 2
Erich FrommEconomists often like startling theorems, results which seem to run counter to conventional wisdom. Votes: 2
Joseph StiglitzThe conventional army loses if it does not win. The guerrilla wins if he does not lose. Votes: 2
Henry A. KissingerRap is really just too conventional. Everybody does the same thing. No one ever pushes the box. Votes: 2
Tyler, The CreatorQuestion everything, even if it represents generations of conventional wisdom. Votes: 0
Robert RingerOne of the toughest battles in intelligence is combating conventional wisdom. Votes: 0
Robert M. GatesInnovation for holders of conventional wisdom is not novelty but annihilation. Votes: 0
Marshall McLuhanEven in so-called realist or conventional writing there can be defamiliarization. Votes: 0
Leni ZumasThere are no conventional games involving conditions of uncertainty without risk. Votes: 0
Richard Arnold EpsteinMy religion centers in different areas than what's considered conventional religion. Votes: 0
Jack KevorkianI've always wanted to lead an ordered, relatively conventional and private life. Votes: 0
George HarrisonThe 1960s were about releasing ourselves from conventional society and freeing ourselves. Votes: 0
Yoko OnoI'm not very good with conventional, prim-and-proper people who are well-behaved, grown-up. Votes: 0
Lesley NicolMen are more conventional than women and much slower to change their ideas. Votes: 0
Kathleen NorrisThe conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking. Votes: 0
John Kenneth GalbraithAn artist who conforms to conventional ideas is nothing but a mere charlatan. Votes: 0
Michael Bassey JohnsonDoubt the conventional wisdom unless you can verify it with reason and experiment Votes: 0
Steve AlbiniAllow the brush to 'wander' above the realm of conventional judgement and practice. Votes: 0
Joshua L. GoldbergThe conventional definition of reality, and the idea of 'normal life', mean nothing. Votes: 0
Sigmar PolkeA dream is always simmering below the conventional surface of speech and reflection. Votes: 0
George SantayanaArt pierces opaque subjectivity, the not seeing of conventional life, and discloses reality. Votes: 0
Langdon Brown GilkeyHe was blessed with an unconventional mind, which overcame his conventional middle-class upbringing. Votes: 0
Michael LewisThe enemy of the conventional wisdom is not ideas but the march of events. Votes: 0
John Kenneth GalbraithI've always shied away from conventional wisdom, though I know the power of it. Votes: 0
Peter JenningsI am not concerned with truth, nor with conventional notions of what is beautiful. Votes: 0
Mark StrandThought and beauty, like a hurricane or waves, should not know conventional, delimited forms. Votes: 0
Anton ChekhovAnyone who was a rebel at one time in life cannot return to being conventional. Votes: 0
Elsa PerettiI'm a sworn enemy of convention. I despise the conventional in anything, even the arts. Votes: 0
Hedy LamarrHe was too perplexed to please the conventional and too reverent. to please the infidels. Votes: 0
Elton TruebloodI think the days of working with producers in the conventional sense are over for me. Votes: 0
Billy CorganI want to be in the small percentage of women who don't settle for conventional roles. Votes: 0
Zoe SaldanaI think in conventional magazine wisdom, you need to have a redesign every decade or so. Votes: 0
Timothy WhiteAn expert must be BOLD if he hopes to alchemize his homespun theory into conventional wisdom. Votes: 0
Steven LevittTourism requires that you see conventional things, and that you see them in a conventional way. Votes: 0
Paul FussellAll new ideas begin in a non-conforming mind that questions some tenet of the conventional wisdom. Votes: 0
Hyman RickoverAny time you try to apply conventional techniques to Donald Trump, you're going to be disappointed. Votes: 0
Kellyanne ConwayWhy be formal when you can be fabulously feral? Why be conventional when you can be happy? Votes: 0
Simon DoonanWhen you're used to being prepared to reject conventional wisdom, it leaves you open to learn more. Votes: 0
Mayim BialikMost of the misery had been generated by her conventional aspect, and not by her innate sensations. Votes: 0
Thomas HardyIn most conventional novels, God is not allowed to be nuts. Nor are nuts allowed to be God. Votes: 0
John Thomas SladekI would never get married in a conventional way; I'd have the 'Curb' music as the union music. Votes: 0
Annabelle WallisAs a rule, I am very careful to be shallow and conventional where depth and originality are wasted. Votes: 0
Lucy Maud MontgomeryI think you will learn to be natural with me, as I find it impossible to be conventional with you Votes: 0
Charlotte BronteI love informality. I hate dressing up. I hate to be conventional - and I hate every kind of snob. Votes: 0
Orson WellesI try to live holistically and avoid conventional medicine. Votes: 3 Pamela Sue Martin