Conventional Ways Quotes

#1. 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

#2. 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

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

Robin S. Sharma

#4. 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

#5. 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

#6. 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

#7. Our English monarchs are so unimaginative," said Eldric. "They execute people in such tediously conventional ways.

Franny Billingsley

#8. 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

#9. Alaska pulling the controller up and to the right, as if that would help her escape certain death. I had the same bad habit.

John Green

#10. I see worries in the fact that we have the power to manipulate genes in ways that would be improbable or impossible through conventional evolution. We shouldn't be complacent in thinking that we can predict the results.

Colin Blakemore

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

Paul Fussell

#12. The French don't seek out alliances except when there are difficulties.

Eric Rohmer

#13. There are other ways than conventional doors to get around my house, Ms Rainn.

S.A. Tawks

#14. I know that experts say you're more likely to get hurt crossing the street than you are flying, but that doesn't make me any less frightened of flying. If anything, it makes me more afraid of crossing the street.

Ellen DeGeneres

#15. Only those who never stand up, never fall down.

Fedor Emelianenko

#16. Who hath no more bread then neede, must not keepe a dog.

George Herbert

#17. Indeed, is not the homecoming amateur with his vast number of artistic snaps more contented than the hunter, returning laden with the game which is only of value to the trader.

Walter Benjamin

#18. Let us develop a kind of dangerous unselfishness.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#19. Sorry is one of those meaningless words people toss around before they kick you in the head again.

Cordelia Strube

#20. But in a lot of ways my poems are very conventional, and it's no big deal for me to write a poem in either free verse or strict form; modern poets can, and do, do both.

Andrew Motion

#21. It is a trap to presume that God wants to make us perfect specimens of what He can do - God's purpose is to make us one with Himself.

Oswald Chambers

#22. Something else I learnt...is respect for reality as against all the many alternatives to it--conventional assumptions, fashionable ways of looking at things, ideologies, social or personal aspirations, fears, intentions, wishful thinking, religious claims, and the rest...

Bryan Magee

#23. Take a brilliant, creative social scientist, without any respect for conventional wisdom and you get Ellen Langer. She is a fantastic storyteller, and Counterclockwise is a fascinating story about the unexpected ways in which our minds and bodies are connected.

Dan Ariely

#24. In some ways it was the conventional clandestine affair in a place like San Bernardino, a place where little is bright or graceful, where it is routine to misplace the future and easy to start looking for it in bed.

Joan Didion

#25. If you challenge conventional wisdom, you will find ways to do things much better than they are currently done.
Bill James

Michael Lewis

#26. if you challenge the conventional wisdom, you will find ways to do things much better than they are currently done.

Michael Lewis

#27. There's something really magical about trying to see things in new ways that go beyond, in some sense, the biological human experience. Light-field photography, too, goes beyond the human experience because our eyes work like conventional cameras.

Ren Ng

#28. A modern person has no energy to love any other time than his own.

Torgny Lindgren