Quotes with conventional

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  • Alice S. Rossi Nothing is so threatening to conventional values as a man who does not want to work or does not want to work at a challenging job, and most people are disturbed if a man in a well-paying job indicates ambivalence or dislike toward it.
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  • Richard Buckminster Fuller People should think things out fresh and not just accept conventional terms and the conventional way of doing things.
    Richard Buckminster Fuller
    American poet, philosopher and inventor (1895 - 1983)
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  • Bill Laswell People who play conventional music are threatened by electronica and don't consider it to be as valuable as what they do.
    Bill Laswell
    American bass guitarist (1955 - )
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  • Sam Walton Swim upstream. Go the other way. Ignore the conventional wisdom.
    Sam Walton
    American businessman, founder Wal-Mart Stores (1918 - 1992)
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  • John Kenneth Galbraith The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking.
    John Kenneth Galbraith
    American economist (1908 - 2006)
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  • John Kenneth Galbraith The enemy of the conventional wisdom is not ideas but the march of events.
    John Kenneth Galbraith
    American economist (1908 - 2006)
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  • Walter Benjamin The greater the decrease in the social significance of an art form, the sharper the distinction between criticism and enjoyment by the public. The conventional is uncritically enjoyed, and the truly new is criticized with aversion.
    Walter Benjamin
    German philosopher (1892 - 1940)
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  • Bruce Sterling They used to be seen as insane or unthinkable acts of madmen. But if they take place they'll be called "war" too. And there will still be no conventional war.
    Bruce Sterling
    American science fiction author (1954 - )
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  • Bruce Sterling They used to be seen as insane or unthinkable acts of madmen. But if they take place they'll be called 'war' too. And there will still be no conventional war.
    Bruce Sterling
    American science fiction author (1954 - )
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  • Carly Fiorina To build a great company, which is a CEO's job, sometimes you have to stand up against conventional wisdom.
    Carly Fiorina
    American businesswoman and political (1954 - )
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  • Betty Friedan When she stopped conforming to the conventional picture of femininity she finally began to enjoy being a woman.
    Betty Friedan
    American feministisch writer (1921 - 2006)
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  • Caleb Deschanel You tend to compose things more in the middle of frame in 3-D than you would in a conventional frame. You can really see composition in 2-D but in 3-D your composition is much more complex. Everything has to be artificially enhanced. But you do gain something else with 3-D: you have a sense of space and heightened reality.
    Caleb Deschanel
    American cinematographer and director (1944 - )
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  • Andre Breton No one who has lived even for a fleeting moment for something other than life in its conventional sense and has experienced the exaltation that this feeling produces can then renounce his new freedom so easily.
    Andre Breton
    French writer (1896 - 1966)
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