Investing in major capital projects perhaps goes
against the conventional wisdom in a recession, but CDG knew that in order to improve the business, the basic infrastructure had to be in place.
Mr. Gurley, who cuts a distinctive figure in Silicon Valley in no small part because of his lanky 6 - foot - 9 frame, went
against conventional wisdom even before he became an investor.
In time, I found myself heading one of the PBHA programs, then —
pushing against conventional wisdom for perhaps the first time in my life — asking why we undergraduates couldn't do on our own at least as well as the professionals were doing.
My opinion of Financial Samurai is that about half the time he has something valuable to say and the other half he throws out
arguments against conventional wisdom just to stir things up.
I'd only argue
against Conventional Wisdom which perhaps Scott had also happened to agree with in passing though he probably wasn't that passionate about it and hopefully he won't get upset with me for writing this and if he does maybe I can claim Plucky broke into my account and wrote it while I was distracted watching «The Voice.»)
We think of the great men of science — Galileo, Newton, Darwin, and Einstein — and imagine them as heroic individuals, often misunderstood, who had to
fight against conventional wisdom or institutions to gain appreciation for their radical new ideas.
The Kavli Foundation recently held a conversation with the new laureates to learn what led them to study memory and cognition, the challenges they faced in getting the neuroscience community to accept findings that often
went against the conventional wisdom of the time, and where they see cognitive neuroscience as a field headed.
Mark Hulbert
argues against the conventional wisdom that small - cap outperformance relative to large - caps indicates a positive trend (the idea being that large caps will «have to perform particularly well just to catch up»).
Place the wings on the grill, crowding them together so that they are all touching (this goes
against the conventional wisdom of giving meat room so it doesn't steam ¿ you want them to steam so that they stay moist).
You go
against conventional wisdom.»
Her advice totally goes
against conventional wisdom, Vigeland admits, and following it is likely to be terrifying, but nonetheless she urges «everyone who's ever dreamed of setting fire to expense reports or tossing a uniform in the dumpster to take a flying leap in the year ahead.»
«We are going
against conventional wisdom that these platforms are a vital component of a successful business,» chairperson and founder Tim Martin said in a statement.
Against the conventional wisdom that Niebuhr's theology is pessimistic, lacking in hope and therefore immobilizing, I propose that, whatever its provisional pessimism, his theology is ultimately optimistic, hope - filled, and therefore energizing.
As Ehrlich, Ehrlich and Holdren (1977, p. 846) point out, such an approach is
against the conventional wisdom of economic theory.
With Arsene Wenger once again driving the average Arsenal fan up the wall, going
against conventional wisdom and baffling football pundits everywhere by sticking to his guns and refusing to get drawn into the ever increasing spending frenzy that is the summer transfer window, the odds against the Gunners ending the 12 year wait for a title get smaller by the day.
It may go
against conventional wisdom, but the secret to keeping your baby happy as long as possible is boarding last.
But the announcement drew attention in part because it goes
against the conventional wisdom that social media marketing and email marketing complement one another and in fact work better in concert.
Here's a fundraiser that sort of goes
against the conventional wisdom that gay - rights groups wouldn't support the Senate Democratic conference now that same - sex marriage passed a Republican - led chamber with help from vulnerable GOP lawmakers.
So far, Ms. Mark - Viverito has been effective; together with Mayor Bill de Blasio, she has swiftly enacted an expansive paid - sick - days law, a package of 11 bills to meet the mayor's goal of slashing pedestrian fatalities, and,
against conventional wisdom, democratized the council, thus checking her own power.
In an article published today in the journal Scientific Reports, the researchers go
against conventional wisdom to show that each neuron functions as a collection of excitable elements, where each excitable element is sensitive to the directionality of the origin of the input signal.
In an article published today in the journal Scientific Reports, the researchers go
against conventional wisdom to show that learning is actually done by several dendrites, similar to the slow learning mechanism currently attributed to the synapses.
«This goes
against the conventional wisdom of many economists, who assert that heavy drinkers are less responsive to tax changes, and has powerful implications for how we can keep our communities safer.»
Against conventional wisdom, they discovered cholera to be caused by a waterborne microbe.
For example, the model predicts that production of carbon dioxide must increase with time, a finding that goes
against the conventional wisdom that carbon fluxes and atmospheric carbon dioxide levels have steadily decreased over the last 4 billion years.
Ahead of the 2014 Kavli Prize Ceremony, the 2014 Kavli Prize Laureates in Neuroscience held a conversation with science writer Joe Bonner to learn what led them to study memory and cognition, the challenges they faced in getting the neuroscience community to accept findings that often went
against the conventional wisdom of the time, and where they see cognitive neuroscience as a field headed.
At first, this information goes
against every conventional wisdom and what we thought about attraction.
You might be shocked that the ways to increase your testosterone might go
against conventional wisdom.
The doctors told him it was fatal, or at least crippling, but he went
against conventional wisdom and used cold water therapy to heal himself.
If you are a medical researcher serious about your career you better not say anything that will go
against conventional wisdom of «cholesterol is evil» otherwise your grants will be cut and you will never publish any thing ever again.
Acura, going
against conventional wisdom, figures the category will grow 26 percent in the next five years and aims to be ready.
In short, I suggest that authors who want to be much more effective than 99 percent of authors in promoting their books go
against conventional wisdom.
The moment of truth came in a windowless basement laboratory on January 23, 1997, at around 2 or 3 a.m. «JD and I put a microcapsule in between two copper electrodes on a slide, put it under a microscope, and for the first time,
against conventional wisdom, proved that you could move a particle inside a microcapsule with an external electric field,» Comiskey wrote.
These videos focus on the basics of using book cover design to sell more books, and may go
against conventional wisdom or your presuppositions of what a book cover is actually for, but try to keep an open mind.
Their recommendation for a «coordinated strategy» goes
against the conventional wisdom of using a reverse mortgage only as a last resort, when a retirement portfolio becomes drained prematurely.