The half-smile that flickers on her lips implies a profound wisdom about the things that really matter when you're a certain age (Ms. Stewart is 75), most of all time and memory.
If you want to create a successful business, you have to do more than win your share of customers or control costs you have to break the rules and overturn the received wisdom about how things work.
If you want to create a really successful business, you have to do more than win your share of customers or control costs you have to break the rules and overturn the received wisdom about how things work in your industry.
But finally he did die, in 1963 at the age of 88, leaving biographers to quarrel about his merits as a man and readers to marvel over his body of work, which, among other achievements, twinned a mastery of language with wisdom about natural things.
Arianna Huffington shares a lot of wisdom about the basic things like taking care of ourselves, getting enough sleep, showing vulnerability and being candid and transparent about when things are tough.
Second, Rick says that Jeff refuses to accept the conventional wisdom about the way things are typically done.
Initially he followed the example of Weigel, his Cartesian mentor at Jena (whose own Arithmetic Description of Moral Wisdom about Persons and Things [Arithmetische Beschreibung der Moral-Weißheit Moral-Weißheit von Personenpeared only in 1674; see Weigel 2003), by employing a qundi-mathematical approach that aSachen to demonstrative certitude in moral matters in place of Aristotelian probabilism.
So in many cases the more ovine among us find it less effort to just go along with received wisdom than actually think about things, in case it might make our poor heads hurt.
Increasingly, they are looking abroad for wisdom about all kinds of things — not just how to choose a signature fragrance.
Though this runs counter to the going wisdom about how to turn things around at GM, the VA, and elsewhere, it makes intuitive sense to look at culture as an outcome not a cause or a fix.
