When you're used to being prepared to reject conventional wisdom it leaves you open to learn more.

Never accept ultimatums conventional wisdom or absolutes.

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

Many people have their reputations as reporters and analysts because they are on television batting around conventional wisdom. A lot of these people have never reported a story.

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

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.

People always blame the girl she should have said no. A monosyllable but conventional wisdom has always been that boys can't manage it.

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

But if you want to know the truth the weirdest thing that has happened has been my discovery that people who attend the conventions are filled with love.

The truth is I often like women. I like their unconventionality. I like their completeness. I like their anonymity.

As far as 'Twilight' goes I'm in love with my character. I'm in love with the whole series. I love doing the fan conventions around the world I love to travel. So wherever it fits in I'd love to continue doing that for the rest of my life. Just meeting the fans who made everything possible from around the world.

At one of the annual conventions of the American Society for Aesthetics much confusion arose when the Society for Anesthetics met at the same time in the same hotel.

The 1960s were about releasing ourselves from conventional society and freeing ourselves.

Therefore a person should first be changed by a teacher's instructions and guided by principles of ritual. Only then can he observe the rules of courtesy and humility obey the conventions and rules of society and achieve order.

In Poland my audience is all women between 18 and 30. At U.S. conventions you have the fantasy and science fiction crowd. At Harvard you have an entirely different audience. It's so schizophrenic.

I'm not sad about any of my life. It's so unconventional. It doesn't look anything like I thought it would.

It's harder and harder to make a well-done romantic comedy these days because the conventions have been so played out.

We must not however be like the leaders of the great romantic revolt who in their eagerness to get rid of the husk of convention disregarded also the humane aspiration.

I'm always trying to reach a transcendent point a romantic point but reach it in a really unconventional way a really profane way. To get to that romantic touching heartbreaking place but through a lot of acts of profanity.

My religion centers in different areas than what's considered conventional religion.

After I left the convent for 15 years I was worn out with religion I wanted nothing whatever to do with it. I felt disgusted with it. If I saw someone reading a religious book on a train I'd think how awful.

The disruptive powers of excessive national fecundity may have played a greater part in bursting the bonds of convention than either the power of ideas or the errors of autocracy.

Blackheart Records being 25 years old represents staying power and the fact that we weren't able to get a record out through conventional means so we had to create this record company to put out our records if we wanted to be a band that had records to give out to their fans.

Conventional wisdom notwithstanding there is no reason either in football or in poetry why the two should not meet in a man's life if he has the weight and cares about the words.