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1 " Don’t accept any knowledge or conventional wisdom without critically questioning it first. "
― Debasish Mridha
2 " 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) "
― , Artistry Unleashed: A Guide to Pursuing Great Performance in Work and Life
3 " And that's just the beginning. More and more, conventional wisdom says that the responsible thing is to make the unemployed suffer. And while the benefits from inflicting pain are an illusion, the pain itself will be all too real. "
― Paul Krugman
4 " The body's a funny thing. It's so full of surprises that it makes conventional wisdom seem silly. "
― Pat Conroy , Beach Music
5 " Hurricane Katrina overwhelmed levees and exploded the conventional wisdom about a shared American prosperity, exposing a group of people so poor they didn't have $50 for a bus ticket out of town. If we want to learn something from this disaster, the lesson ought to be: America's poor deserve better than this. "
6 " The enemy of the conventional wisdom is not ideas but the march of events. "
7 " What I want is to have people's notion of adulthood no longer be so defined by being a parent. There is some kind of conventional wisdom that you're not really a mature person until you become a parent. "
8 " Doubt the conventional wisdom unless you can verify it with reason and experiment. "
9 " Just look at what is right in front of you. People don't do that. They see what they expect to see, what they want to see, what conventional wisdom tells them to see. They only hear the music and not the lyrics of human events. "
10 " The conventional wisdom is that if you are gay, you cannot play the romantic straight lead in a movie. "
11 " Up until Trump announced his candidacy, the conventional wisdom was that you had to be a professional politician in order to run. You had to have a background that was politically scrubbed. In other words, smart people who didn't live perfect lives could never run. "
12 " 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. "
13 " While conventional wisdom has traditionally sided against borrowing from retirement savings, sentiment has shifted toward borrowing from one's own assets with the realization that other forms of credit come at a much higher cost and often are not even available to borrowers with limited means and urgent needs. "
14 " The conventional wisdom is that people come to the United States, and immigration is so great, and they say, 'America, what a great country.' And a lot of that is true. "
15 " There's a conventional wisdom that says that strategic thinking is much more important than relationship building, which doesn't seem to be nearly as highly valued as it should be, based on what some of the leaders that I've spoken with have said to me. "
16 " It's become glib political conventional wisdom in Washington that a massive spending plan will provide a parachute rescue for a cliff-diving economy - landing it safely and with strong enough legs to move toward a healthy future. "
17 " Most people see what they expect to see, what they want to see, what they've been told to see, what conventional wisdom tells them to see - not what is right in front of them in its pristine condition. "
18 " I'm particularly interested in black swan events: unprecedented surprises that destroy the conventional wisdom about how the world works. "
19 " People always blame the girl; she should have said no. A monosyllable, but conventional wisdom has always been that boys can't manage it. "
