#conventional

The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking. ↗

— John Kenneth Galbraith

#job #painful #protect #serves #thinking

When your efforts run in the face of conventional wisdom and accepted mastery, persistence can look like madness. If you succeed in the end, this extreme originality reformulates into a new level of mastery, sometimes even genius; if you fail in the end, you remain a madman in the eyes of others, and maybe even yourself. When you are in the midst of the journey…there’s really no way of knowing which one you are.” (p.129) ↗

— Hilary Austen

#conventional-wisdom #effort #extreme-originality #genius #journey

Clinton is a big personality who has led a big life, and for some of the media conventional wisdom to boil it down to a view that 'all people are really interested in' are a few moments of madness in the Oval Office gets him, the importance of the presidency, and the significance of his life, all wrong. ↗

— Alastair Campbell

#boil #clinton #conventional #conventional wisdom #down

The State of Israel has faced obstacles and challenges to its very survival, with conventional military attacks leading the way to suicide bombers who have killed innocent Israeli men, women, and children. ↗

— Jerry Costello

#bombers #challenges #children #conventional #faced

In order to stand well in the eyes of the community, it is necessary to come up to a certain, somewhat indefinite, conventional standard of wealth. ↗

— Thorstein Veblen

#come #community #conventional #eyes #indefinite

The Internet is a great place to find unconventional comedy that you can't find anywhere else. ↗

— Andy Dick

#comedy #else #find #great #internet

To build a great company, which is a CEO's job, sometimes you have to stand up against conventional wisdom. ↗

— Carly Fiorina

#build #ceo #company #conventional #conventional wisdom

A conventional playwright tries to tell you more about the characters than they know about themselves. ↗

— Timothy West

#characters #conventional #know #more #playwright

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

— Nick Clooney

#american troops #conventional #conventional wisdom #getting #holds

In the past Berlin was much more radical and extreme and now it's becoming much more of a conventional European city. ↗

— Olafur Eliasson

#berlin #city #conventional #european #extreme