“Some people are aware of another sort of thinking which... leads to those simple ideas that are obvious only after they have been thought of... the term 'lateral thinking' has been coined to describe this orther sort of thinking; 'vertical thinking' is used to denote the conventional logical process.” PeopleThinkingHas BeensIdeasUsedProcessTermSimpleObviousLogicalConventionalVerticalLateral ThinkingSimple Ideas Author:Edward de Bono
“Ordinary life bypassed me, but I also bypassed it. It couldn't have been any other way.Conventional life and conventional people are not for me.” PeopleWayHas BeensOrdinaryConventionalOrdinary LifeConventional Life Author:Edna O'Brien
“It is time for the scientific community to stop giving alternative medicine a free ride There cannot be two kinds of medicine — conventional and alternative. There is only medicine that has been adequately tested and medicine that has not, medicine that works and medicine that may or may not work. Once a treatment has been tested rigorously, it no longer matters whether it was considered alternative at the outset. If it is found to be reasonably safe and effective, it will be accepted.” IfsGivingKindMayHas BeensTwoMatterFoundCommunitySafeMedicineAcceptedAlternativesTreatmentConventionalTestedAlternative Medicine Author:Marcia Angell
“To secure approval one must remain within the bounds of conventional mediocrity. Whatever lies beyond, whether it be greater insight and virtue, or greater stolidity and vice, is condemned. The noblest men, like the worst criminals, have been done to death.” MenHas BeensDoneLyingVirtueGreaterWorstBoundsVicesInsightCriminalsSecureMediocrityApprovalConventional Book:Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion Source: Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion