Quotes of: Conventional-wisdom Keyword

Never accept ultimatums, conventional wisdom, or absolutes.

Christopher Reeve

The enemy of the conventional wisdom is not ideas but the march of events.

John Kenneth Galbraith

Swim upstream. Go the other way. Ignore the conventional wisdom.

Sam Walton

I reject most conventional wisdom.

Rush Limbaugh

The conventional wisdom is that if you are gay, you cannot play the romantic straight lead in a movie.

Ian Mckellen

Doubt the conventional wisdom unless you can verify it with reason and experiment.

Steve Albini

I've always shied away from conventional wisdom, though I know the power of it.

Peter Jennings

Economists often like startling theorems, results which seem to run counter to conventional wisdom.

Joseph Stiglitz

Conventional wisdom holds that setting a timetable for getting American troops out of Iraq would be a mistake.

Nick Clooney

Around '93, '94, the conventional wisdom about the Internet was that it was a toy for academics and researchers. So it was very, very underestimated for about two years.

Marc Andreessen

The body's a funny thing. It's so full of surprises that it makes conventional wisdom seem silly.

Beach Music

All conventional wisdom has an element of truth to it, but good design requires more than an element of truth - it requires an ensemble of correct assumptions and valid calculations.

Henry Petroski

Conventional wisdom tells us we'll only be happier after a divorce if the marriage itself was a war zone.

Ariel Gore

What we have forgotten is that thoughts and words are conventions, and that it is fatal to take conventions too seriously. A convention is a social convenience, as, for example, money ... but it is absurd to take money too seriously, to confuse it wi...

The Wisdom of Insecurity: A Message for an Age of Anxiety

Challenge conventional wisdom. There is almost always a better way.

Economic Warfare: Secrets of Wealth Creation in the Age of Welfare Politics

Conventional wisdom tells us to avoid taking unalterable action while at a low point in life. I have never been conventional.

Therese Fowler

You don't ask people with knives in their stomachs what would make them happy; happiness is no longer the point. It's all about survival; it's all about whether you pull the knife out and bleed to death or keep it in, in the hope that you might be lu...

How to Be Good

When the conventional wisdom of physics seemed to conflict with an elegant theory of his, Einstein was inclined to question that wisdom rather than his theory, often to have his stubbornness rewarded.

Walter Isaacson

I’ve never agreed with the conventional wisdom that ‘actors are great liars.’ If more people understood the acting process, the goals of good actors, the conventional wisdom would be ‘actors are terrible liars,’ because only bad actors lie ...

Stories I Only Tell My Friends

The role of the CEO is to enable people to excel, help them discover their own wisdom, engage themselves entirely in their work, and accept responsibility for making change. (164)

Employees First, Customers Second: Turning Conventional Management Upside Down

I think in conventional magazine wisdom, you need to have a redesign every decade or so.

Timothy White