C Quotes
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“Conventional money is supposed to be doing everything. By adding in complementary currencies, you actually get different types of things and different outcomes from different complementary currencies.”
“Conventional names define a person's past: ancestry, ethnicity, nationality, religion. I am not who I was ten years ago and certainly not who I will be in twenty years”
“Conventional nudes based on classical originals could bear no burden of thought or inner life without losing their formal completeness.”
“Conventional opinion is the ruin of our souls.”
Source: The Pocket Rumi
“Conventional opinions fit so comfortably into the dominant paradigm as to be seen not as opinions but as statements of fact, as 'the nature of things.' The very efficacy of opinion manipulation rests on the fact that we do not know we are being manipulated. The most insidious forms of oppression are those that so insinuate themselves into our communication universe and the recesses of our minds that we do not even realize they are acting upon us.”
Source: The Culture Struggle
“Conventional, organized religion, in its most decadent form, is an inert parody of the genuine religious experience as much as modern occult organizations are degenerate parodies of forgotten religions.”
Source: The Zaum of Zeena: A Collection of Interviews, Essays, Quotes and Images by Zeena Schreck
“Conventional people are roused to fury by departure from convention, largely because they regard such departure as a criticism of themselves.”
Source: The Conquest of Happiness
“Conventional psychiatry has emphasized the genetic roots of psychosis based on the claim that twin and other studies show that schizophrenia is 80% heritable, which means that 80% of the cause is genetic.”
“Conventional sex is an act of violence. But there is nothing more sublime than the sight of a Marxist cultural critic shoving chrysanthemums into her twat.”
Source: Woke: A Guide to Social Justice
“Conventional show-biz savvy held that Americans hated to be the objects of satire.”
“Conventional sports have undergone an evolution in training methods during the last fifty years. Curiosity and the inherent improvement brought about by competition have driven this evolution to a state of high refinement such that today's athletes have a very specialized approach to training at the elite levels.”
“Conventional thinking teaches us that constraints fetter the creative mind. The big advantage of working within strict constraints is that it will FOCUS your thinking. Thinking inside the box is about creating parameters that limit the scope. It will fire up the problem-solving part of the brain to fill your empty box with new ideas, and work to find a solution.”
Source: Raise Your Innovation IQ: 21 Ways to Think Differently During Times of Change
“Conventional turbines only work up to 200 feet, but capturing a small fraction of the global wind energy at higher altitudes could be sufficient to supply the current energy needs of the globe.”
“Conventional wisdom can get us into so much trouble, especially as artists.”
“Conventional wisdom holds that setting a timetable for getting American troops out of Iraq would be a mistake.”
“Conventional wisdom is invariably out of date. Because in the time it has taken to become conventional - to become what everyone believes - the world has moved on. Conventional wisdom is a remnant of the past.”
Source: Next
“Conventional wisdom is no wisdom at all. Conventional wisdom is taking somebody else's word for the way things are It's the followers of this world who rely on assumption. Not the leaders.”
“Conventional wisdom is not to put all of your eggs in one basket. 80/20 wisdom is to choose a basket carefully, load all your eggs into it, and then watch it like a hawk.”
Source: The 80/20 Principle
“Conventional wisdom is so scary because what if everybody's wrong?”
“Conventional wisdom nor scientific, mathematical prove of randomness in life could do nothing to deter human's curiosity for the unknown, however small the chance of a positive outcome maybe.”
Source: The White Man and the Pachinko Girl
“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.”
Source: Riders on the Earth: essays and recollections
“Conventional wisdom on government's role in inequality often has it backwards. Tax reforms have resulted in a more progressive federal income tax; government transfer payments have become less progressive.”
“Conventional wisdom says that positive thinking is the key to success. You need to picture yourself or visualize for yourself the perfect outcome, the best possible result. You need to go into what you are doing with an absolutely positive mindset, whether it is a presentation, a job interview, a date, or a much bigger project as if nothing could go wrong.
While positive thinking has always been preached, it has gained much more popularity recently thanks to the books that talk about the Law of Attraction as if it is a scientific law that always works. I am here to tell you that if you are always thinking positive and have been indoctrinated by the positive thinking mantras, believing that nothing could go wrong, you are dramatically lowering your chances of success, because in real life things go wrong all the time.”
Source: UnLearn: A Practical Guide to Business and Life
“Conventional wisdom suggests that for bookstores to survive, they need to sell heaps of sidelines (higher-margin nonbook merchandise), host near-daily events, maximize social media, and leverage technology. The Three Lives' simplicity is its brilliance. The tiny bookstore is filled with books and books and books and books....And so, while the same books can be bought from Amazon, often at lower prices, Three Lives offers what an internet behemoth cannot: people, conversation, books to be held and happened upon, floors that creak, atmosphere.”
Source: The Bookshop: A History of the American Bookstore
“Conventional wisdom suggests the primary motivator for entrepreneurs is money or wealth creation and, in fact, much of the political debate tends to center around what kind of tax or regulatory policy changes will turn corporate suits into small business adventurers overnight.”
“Conventional wisdom tells us we'll only be happier after a divorce if the marriage itself was a war zone.”
“Conventional wisdom would have one believe.”
“Conventional wisdom, fooled by our misleading "physical intuition", is that the real world is "continuous", and that discrete models are necessary evils for approximating the "real" world, due to the innate discreteness of the digital computer.”
“Conventional words or other signs have to be sought for laboriously only in a second stage, where the associative play already referred to is sufficiently established and can be reproduced at will.”
“Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion...Appearance should not be mistaken for truth; narrow human doctrines that only tend to elate and magnify few, should not be substituted for the world-redeeming creed of Christ.”
Source: Jane Eyre
“Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last. To pluck the mask from the face of the Pharisee, is not to lift an impious hand to the Crown of Thorns.
These things and deeds are diametrically opposed: they are as distinct as is vice from virtue. Men too often confound them: they should not be confounded: appearance should not be mistaken for truth; narrow human doctrines, that only tend to elate and magnify a few, should not be substituted for the world-redeeming creed of Christ. There is – I repeat it – a difference; and it is a good, and not a bad action to mark broadly and clearly the line of separation between them.”
Source: Jane Eyre
“Conventionality is not morality.”
“Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last.”
“Conventionality is the tacit agreement to set appearances before reality, form before content.”
Source: The Morality of Woman: And Other Essays
“Conventionally handsome is not really where I'm at.”
“Conventionally, one looks at history as something of the past. But after Einstein, who knows what is in the past and what is in the present?”
“Conventions are convenient. It is inconvenient to say people are dead when they are alive, or alive when they have been buried, or that the world is crumbling when it is, as everyone can see, there as usual. If all A that does not fit B is ipso facto disqualified, we have to tailor A to shape and size to avoid serious trouble, and not all are equally gifted in this art.”
“Conventions are, indeed, all that shield us from the shivering void, though often they do so but poorly and desperately.”
“Conventions are like coins, an easy way of dealing with the commerce of relations.”
Source: The Journey's Echo: Selections
“Conventions are often more cruel than the law.”
“Conventions are unstated agreements within a community to abide by a single way of doing things - not because there is any inherent advantage to the choice, but because there is an advantage to everyone making the same choice.”
“Conventions are, by nature, a party. I mean, that's why people become delegates. They come from all over the world to exercise their democratic rights and to party.”
“Conventions of generality and mathematical elegance may be just as much barriers to the attainment and diffusion of knowledge as may contentment with particularity and literary vagueness... It may well be that the slovenly and literary borderland between economics and sociology will be the most fruitful building ground during the years to come and that mathematical economics will remain too flawless in its perfection to be very fruitful.”
“Conventions vs. spontaneity. This is a dialectical choice, it depends on the assessment you make of your own times. If you judge that your own time is ridden with empty insincere formalities, you plump for spontaneity, for indecorous behavior even...Much of morality is the task of compensating for one's age. One assumes unfashionable virtues, in an indecorous time. In a time hollowed out by decorum, one must school oneself in spontaneity.”
Source: Reborn: Journals and Notebooks, 1947-1963
“Conventions which camouflage a man's true feelings are a spiritual lie which help him adapt himself to the organized deviations of society.”
“Conventions, like clichés, have a way of surviving their own usefulness.”
Source: Desert of the Heart: A Novel
“Convergence of our views on global trade issues under the WTO and our common resolve to combat terrorism provide a valuable base for mutual understanding.”
“Convergence of technology and the judicial system is the need-of-the-hour. We need to go digital and adopt online analysis of legal cases. Dissemination of legal knowledge to the common man will also a go a long way in improving the law and order situation in the country.”
“Convergence of technology is important. One people, one mission, one nation, this will be possible then.”
“Conversation about the weather is the last refuge of the unimaginative.”