Sentences with phrase «common wisdom»

I have green eyes, so common wisdom says lavender is my shade, and I do like that, but I tried this look with baby blue Caribbean and got so many compliments.

As we learn more about depression and its triggers, common wisdom about treating it and its symptoms apply.

Common wisdom suggests not to jump off a bridge just because everyone else is doing it.

As common wisdom has it, look for your dog in the kennels of a responsible breeder or reputable shelter.

Common wisdom tells us to intervene as fast as possible, that waiting is a bad thing.

The story of a girl who disagreed with common wisdom and won.

The fact is, there was a time when common wisdom dictated listing your employment goals at the top of your resume.

Common wisdom dictates that the best networking happens in person, and that's true.

They also crave solutions that push beyond common wisdom.

Against common wisdom even the adult and aging brain can generate new neurons from a population of resident stem cells but it does so only in two privileged regions and on a minute scale.

Speaking of cuts, the pretty recent common wisdom was that they'd heal better if you exposed them to air.

Common wisdom says that a high deductible means lower monthly payments.

Common wisdom suggests that when you have found a new job you quit hunting for a new one.

«This is completely against the established common wisdom of how to go to Mars, which is a straight shot to Mars, carry everything with you,» de Weck says.

Even if common wisdom holds that the more flat and graphic a painting looks, the more «likes» it will get, there are notable exceptions: Until three years ago, Genieve Figgis, 43, was toiling away in a small town in Ireland, producing ghoulish costume dramas with a dreamy, blurred look that resulted from pushing thick paint around a canvas.

Historical common wisdom from that year's election claims a centrist Labour Party beat a dog - whistling Conservative Party, alongside the Charles Kennedy - led Liberal Democrat Party which was more left - wing than Labour at the time.

The two authors recognize what has now become common wisdom: the triune brain is not simply triune.

«While common wisdom has it that higher volatility necessarily signals a discrete end to the [bull market], it is often the case that higher vol is a natural occurrence in the «late innings» of extended rallies, particularly when the Fed is raising rates, as was the case in late 1999 - 2000,» he wrote.

Innovators constantly ask questions that challenge common wisdom or, as Tata Group chairman Ratan Tata puts it, «question the unquestionable.»

This is encouraging, since common wisdom has it that the number of calculations necessary to simulate a complex quantum system on a classical computer grows exponentially with the number of quantum objects in the system.

Because of our great genomic similarity (sometimes even cited as ~ 99 %), the presumption that we evolved from a chimpanzee - like ancestor has become increasingly common wisdom.

In fact, adult children of divorced parents (ACODS) tend to be the forgotten ones because common wisdom tells us they won't be as impacted as children by parental divorce.

This result defied common wisdom as well as contradicting the public belief that eggs increase risk of high blood pressure due to their high cholesterol content.

By common wisdom, fried foods are thought to bring on gallbladder attacks but, when studied objectively, this connection is inconsistent.

A well - known common wisdom asserts that strong social bonds undermine delinquency.

It has become almost common wisdom that the virus that caused the 1918 flu pandemic was an avian strain introduced into the human population shortly before the pandemic erupted.

Even though common wisdom suggests that rote repetition helps us remember things, mixing in new information may be a superior strategy.

Mark Krumholz, an astronomer at the University of California at Santa Cruz, realized that questioning the untested common wisdom about the sun's suburban upbringing might mean it's easier to find a solar sibling than astronomers think.

In fact, this was such common wisdom that Suzy Gulliver, PhD, a licensed clinical psychologist and professor at the Texas A&M College of Medicine, would repeat it at conferences about behavioral health services for the firefighting personnel that she attended.

Nearly twenty years ago, researchers began noticing a curious paradox in health - focused studies: despite common wisdom that being overweight or obese is unhealthy, a significant number of analyses showed that in a variety of circumstances additional weight is actually associated with a lower risk of death!

Considered radical when it was first introduced, the claim that some directors may express an individual vision, a worldview, over a series of films with stylistic and thematic consistently is now simply common wisdom in everyone's understanding not only of cinema, but also of other art forms of popular culture, from music to sports to comic books.

They take big risks, they ignore common wisdom (such as the notion that there's nothing left to discover in North America), and they even make love in hammocks stretched between branches three hundred feet in the air.

In the age of Amazon and e-books, common wisdom claims that brick - and - mortar bookstores are going the way of the dinosaurs.

For us, much common wisdom is just plain wrong: Too Big to Fail is meaningless.

By combining this strategy with a well - chosen resume template — as well as observing common wisdom, like avoiding passive voice and sticking to a one - page resume — you're most likely to get called in for an interview and increase your chances of getting hired by that potential employer, since what you're representing to the employer is a match both on paper and in real life.

Thomas C. Mann, PhD Candidate, and Melissa J. Ferguson, PhD Common wisdom and psychological research alike advise that it is critically important to make a good first impression: the human mind is adept at drawing inferences about others from even the slimmest amount of information about their actions or appearance, and these impressions can impact decision - making.

The now - common wisdom of intellectual life is that such beliefs are unavailable to the heirs of the Enlightenment.

Both lawmakers were competing over white, moderate voters in northeast Queens — especially Italian - Americans — who, common wisdom holds, will now be more likely to lean toward supporting Mr. Vallone.

Common wisdom in investing tells us that we should set a target asset allocation in our portfolios and periodically rebalance to ensure our portfolio stays in line with our allocation goal.

Common wisdom says «Don't Fight The Fed.»

Common wisdom from almost every resume writer, career coach, recruiter and hiring manager: Your resume should focus less on listing the jobs you've had than demonstrating the value you brought to each.

It is increasingly common wisdom that we're not going to achieve our collective global sustainabilit...

Common wisdom tells that a FWD pickup is a bad idea as weight added to the bay will transfer the weight to be rear bias, hence putting more weight and grip on the rear wheel instead of the front wheels where the power is sent.

Common wisdom asserts that heroes are born from great calamity, and yet our Charlotte's early life was pretty standard.

Not only that, they fly in the face of some massively overhyped myths that masquerade as common wisdom, these days, especially among the entrepreneurial crowd: