And [Asimov]'ll sign anything, hardbacks, softbacks, other people's books, scraps of paper. Inevitably someone handed him a blank check on the occasion when I was there, and he signed that without as much as a waver to his smile — except that he signed: 'Harlan Ellison.
Isaac AsimovTags: science-fiction fame autograph convention self-referential
Conventional people are roused to fury by departure from convention, largely because they regard such departure as a criticism of themselves.
Bertrand RussellTags: convention
He needed the people and the clamour around him. There was no questions and no doubts when he stood on a platform over a sea of faces; the air was heavy, compact, saturated with a single solvent-admiration; there was no room for anything else. He was great; great as the number of people who told him so. He was right; right as the number of people who believed it. He looked at the faces, at the eyes, he saw himself born in them, he saw himself granted the gift of life. That was Peter Keating, that, the reflection in those staring pupils, and his body was only it's reflection.
Ayn RandTags: society convention collectivism
Being classy is my teenage rebellion.
Rebecca McKinseyTags: manners fashion class rebellion convention teenagers
You've done the bourgeois thing, perhaps, but let's not call that love.
Marianne WilliamsonTags: love convention
In actual fact, conventions are the death of real tradition as they are of all real life. They are parasites which attach themselves to the living organism of tradition and devour all its reality, turning it into a hollow formality.
Tradition is living and active, but convention is passive and dead. Tradition does not form us automatically: we have to work to understand it. Convention is accepted passively, as a matter of routine. Therefore, convention easily becomes an evasion of reality. It offers us only pretended ways of solving the problems of living - a system of gestures and formalities. Tradition really teaches us to live and shows us how to take full responsibility for our own lives. Thus tradition is often flatly opposed to what is ordinary, to what is mere routine. But convention, which is a mere repetition of familiar routines, follows the line of least resistance. One goes through an act, without trying to understand the meaning of it all, merely because everyone else does the same. Tradition, which is always old, is at the same time ever new because it is always reviving - born again in each new generation, to be lived and applied in a new and particular way. Convention is simply the ossification of social customs. The activities of conventional people are merely excuses for NOT acting in a more integrally human way. Tradition nourishes the life of the spirit; convention merely disguises its interior decay.
Tags: convention tradition
I'm a sworn enemy of convention. I despite the conventional in anything, even the arts. I paint canvasses on the floor and drove one art teacher out of his mind. But that's just the way I paint best.
Hedy LamarrTags: humor art convention
Art flouts convention. Convention became convention because it works.
Stewart BrandTags: art architecture convention
The common person fears to think beyond the common.
Bryant McGillTags: fear originality conformity common-sense convention defiance uncommon
My religious beliefs also defied convention, leaning towards agnosticism and pandeism.
Alfred TennysonTags: religion spirituality deism pantheism convention pandeism
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