Despite conventional wisdom about the danger of shark attacks, diving with threshers is relatively safe.
When building a company from the ground up, conventional wisdom says to always think long term.
At times like these, conventional wisdom tells us to take emotion out of the decision making.
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While Friend fought conventional wisdom in the lab, he waged a similar battle at Cambridge.
In the gaudy world of gambling, the conventional wisdom is: Never bet against Steve Wynn.
Tampa Bay Rays manager Joe Maddon has spent his managerial career fighting against the conventional wisdom.
Norwood is accustomed to going against the conventional wisdom when creating brilliant, new surgical techniques.
The new conventional wisdom: People will pay, as long as you make it frictionless enough.
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The conventional wisdom is that Italians do not care about what their politicians do in private.
That raises doubts about the conventional wisdom that the Nobel is a political negative for Obama.
Their public pronouncements on the state of the economy provide a rallying point for conventional wisdom.
But Bradley has no appetite for following any script from the manual of conventional wisdom.
Keeping with conventional wisdom, the BP share repurchase program should suggest the stock is cheap.
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The conventional wisdom is that Rush's success depended on the 1987 repeal of the Fairness Doctrine.
The rebirth of these tiny consumer-electronics start-ups often through similarly scrappy means goes against conventional wisdom.
For a long time, conventional wisdom was that insurance advertising should play it straight.
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The conventional wisdom is that it will be difficult to compete with cheap generics.
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For instance: conventional wisdom says that the crime rate should rise during a recession.
If this is becoming the conventional wisdom, it represents serious trouble for freshwater macro.
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There are several ways to secure downside protection, and conventional wisdom prescribes the use hedge funds.
The weathervanes of conventional wisdom are registering another round of angst about America in decline.
Fravel, as might be expected, goes against the conventional wisdom when it comes to his sport.
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Recently I wrote about the dangers of relying on conventional wisdom to make critical business decisions.
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If they do, they'll find out that the conventional wisdom is pretty much worthless.
The conventional wisdom was to build something big with lots of info and get traffic.
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Conventional wisdom said the Lakers were primed to win their third consecutive NBA title this year.
In business and real life, following conventional wisdom in a hyper-changing world can have serious consequences.
But as so often happens in sports, conventional wisdom got taken to the woodshed.
Over the past seven decades, I have always challenged conventional wisdom to get things done.
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Goode said he was not swayed by the conventional wisdom that the Strip had been overbuilt.
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