Conventional Quotes
Training the body to obey the mind as I have done differs from the more conventional method of getting the mind to obey the body.
People should think things out fresh and not just accept conventional terms and the conventional way of doing things.
Achieving conventional goals, such as profits and joy, with unconventional methods, such as investing energy instead of money.
Like everything genuine, its inner life guarantees its truth. All works of art created by truthful minds without regard for the work's conventional exterior remain genuine for all times...
Art is not just ornamental, an enhancement of life. It is a path in itself, a way out of the predictable and conventional... a map to self discovery.
The habit of pleasing by flattery makes a language soft; the fear of offending by truth makes it circuitous and conventional.
One of the things I learned, the easiest of lessons, was that the better you do your job, often going against conventional mores, the less popular you are likely to be.
I had to teach myself to let go of the conventional rock way of playing guitar and singing. Some things you wouldn't expect to work, did and some things won't ever work.
I don't think Jimi committed suicide in the conventional way. He just decided to exit when he wanted to.
Infelicity is an ill to which all acts are heir which have the general character of ritual or ceremonial, all conventional acts.
I love informality. I hate dressing up. I hate to be conventional - and I hate every kind of snob.
Create a vision and never let the environment, other people's beliefs, or the limits of what has been done in the past shape your decisions. Ignore conventional wisdom.
Conventional people are roused to fury by departure from convention, largely because they regard such departure as a criticism of themselves.
Thought and beauty, like a hurricane or waves, should not know conventional, delimited forms.
There are no shortcuts to knowledge, especially knowledge gained from personal experience. Following conventional wisdom and relying on shortcuts can be worse than knowing nothing at all.
Implosion is no invention in the conventional sense, but rather the renaissance of ancient knowledge, lost over the course of time.
Shamanic healing is a journey. It involves stepping out of our habitual roles, our conventional scripts, and improvising a dancing path.
He was blessed with an unconventional mind, which overcame his conventional middle-class upbringing.
Screening out peer pressure and conventional wisdom. It is so powerful, that most of us aren't even aware of how much it is influencing our decisions.
Why be formal when you can be fabulously feral? Why be conventional when you can be happy?
Look, whenever I hear or read I’m beautiful, I simply don’t understand it … I’m certainly not beautiful in any conventional way. I didn't make my career on beauty.
We discard the personal specifics which don't conform to the ideal conventional beauty created by art directors and cinematographers.
Any time you try to apply conventional techniques to Donald Trump, you're going to be disappointed.
We cleave to the past too much in Germany. All of our German art is too bogged down in the conventional... I think more highly of a free person who consciously puts convention aside.
In this world we must either institute conventional forms of expression or else pretend that we have nothing to express; the choice lies between a mask and a figleaf.
If you choose the sort of life which has no conventional pattern you have to try to make an art of it, or it is a mess.
All autonomous agencies and authorities, sooner or later, turn into self-perpetuating strongholds of conventional thought and practice.
Cicero's words also increased my personal satisfaction by supporting my long-standing rejection of a conventional point of view.
Survival in the conventional sense of the term means to continue to live, but also to live after death.
The emotional build-up and anticipation if you travel at Christmas can make it harder to enjoy a trip. I think sometimes it is better to travel outside of conventional holiday times for that reason.
There is a vast need for all types of protest today, whether it be civil disobedience, or whether it be on a - more conventional variety.
No conventional therapy can release us from a deep and abiding psychic pain. Through prayer we find what we cannot find elsewhere: a peace that is not of this world.
In order to stand well in the eyes of the community, it is necessary to come up to a certain, somewhat indefinite, conventional standard of wealth.
Make sure you have a vice president in charge of your revolution, to engender ferment among your more conventional colleagues.
The hope of a new politics does not lie in formulating a left-wing reply to the right-it lies in rejecting conventional political categories.
The elderly have weathered enough squalls to know that this one, too, shall pass. They own the courage to be original; they've learned to hold their own values above the conventional wisdom.
A conventional good read is usually a bad read, a relaxing bath in what we know already. A true good read is surely an act of innovative creation in which we, the readers, become conspirators.
It's easy to live the expected and conventional. It's when you live the unexpected that you start having fun with your life.
All the joys - animal and human - of a free life are mine. I have escaped everything that is artificial, conventional, customary.
Poetry is a very complex art.... It is an art of pure sound bound in through an art of arbitrary and conventional symbols.
Conventional cancer treatments are in place as the law of the land because they pay, not heal, the best.
