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We shouldn't have politicians micromanaging this war because it is complex and unconventional.


Bill Shuster


#complex #politicians #unconventional #war

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


John Kenneth Galbraith


#job #painful #protect #serves #thinking

We need not renounce the use of conventional force. We will be ready to repel any clear and present danger that poses a genuine threat to our national security and survival.


Theodore C. Sorensen


#clear #conventional #danger #force #genuine

We are not supposed to all be the same, feel the same, think the same, and believe the same. The key to continued expansion of our Universe lies in diversity, not in conformity and coercion. Conventionality is the death of creation.


Anthon St. Maarten


#conformity #conventionality #creation #diversity #expansion

The conventional definition of management is getting work done through people, but real management is developing people through work.


Agha Hasan Abedi


#definition #developing #done #getting #management

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

One's duty is to feel what is great, cherish the beautiful, and not accept all the conventions of society with the ignominy that it imposes upon us.


Gustave Flaubert


#conventions #duty #gustave-flaubert #life #madame-bovary

The conventional viewpoint says we need a jobs program and we need to cut welfare. Just the opposite! We need more welfare and fewer jobs.


Jerry Brown


#cut #fewer #jobs #just #more

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

I think the days of working with producers in the conventional sense are over for me.


Billy Corgan


#days #i #i think #me #over






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