#convention

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

Infelicity is an ill to which all acts are heir which have the general character of ritual or ceremonial, all conventional acts. ↗

— J. L. Austin

#ceremonial #character #conventional #general #general character

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

Being classy is my teenage rebellion. ↗

— Rebecca McKinsey

#convention #fashion #manners #rebellion #teenagers

Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to happen to him. ↗

— John Barrymore

#barrymore #conventional #dear #die #fellow

I'm not a money manager, but I can tell you what the conventional wisdom is. The younger you are, the more risk you can take on. ↗

— Maria Bartiromo

#conventional wisdom #i #i can #manager #money

We support every effort to combat international terrorism through the formulation of international conventions and hope that the international community will take further steps to improve the anti-terrorism international legal framework. ↗

— Li Peng

#community #conventions #effort #every #formulation

Never accept ultimatums, conventional wisdom, or absolutes. ↗

— Christopher Reeve

#conventional #conventional wisdom #never #ultimatums #wisdom